Vijay Iyer and Cyro Baptista Join Growing List of Artists for CMS’s 40th Anniversary Fall Workshop
Pianist, composer and educator Vijay Iyer along with master percussionist Cyro Baptista are the latest Guiding Artists signed on for the Creative Music Studio's 40th Anniversary Workshop, October 7 - 11, at the Full Moon Resort just west of CMS's base in Woodstock, NY. Vijay and Cyro join other Guiding Artists such as Peter Apfelbaum, Tony Malaby, Mark Helias, Tom Rainey, Jason Hwang and many others. The deadline for this workshop registration is September 7, 2013.
Creative Music Foundation Launches First Crowd-Sourcing Campaign -- Raising Funds to Digitize its Archive of Rare Recordings
The nonprofit Creative Music Foundation has launched its first crowd-sourcing campaign on Kickstarter.com, aiming to raise $4,000 to help produce compilation CD box sets comprised of music from the CMS Archive Project, over 400 concerts that took place at the Creative Music Studio between 1973 and 1984.Creative Music Studio’s 40th Anniversary Workshop Recap: Four-day Intensive Features Workshops and Unique Concert
The four-day workshop to celebrate the Creative Music Studio’s 40th anniversary was a rousing success. Guiding artists such as Oliver Lake, Dave Douglas, John Medeski, Steven Bernstein and CMS co-founder Karl Berger captivated, engaged and played music with workshop participants day and night. Along with other guiding artists, these masters played evening concerts in unique combinations not previously heard.Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso Receive ‘Jazz Heroes’ Award
The Jazz Journalists Association named CMF co-founders Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso as two of its 2013 ‘Jazz Heroes.’ Based on nominations from local communities and jazz journalists, Berger and Sertso were named for their ‘dedication to local efforts that nurture the spirit of jazz and ensure its transmission to new generations of jazz lovers.’Karl Berger’s Improvisers Orchestra in the News: The New York Times
Ben Ratliff, begins his April 19 NY Times article on the KBIO: "Karl Berger, the jazz pianist, vibraphonist and conductor of improvisers, ran a workshop for his orchestra before its performance at Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn on Thursday night. He uses a few simple hand signals for duration, attack and pitch, and the musicians wanted to be sure they were interpreting the specifics correctly. But Mr. Berger seemed more concerned with telling them something very general. “Hear your sound as if you’re playing the sound of the whole group,” he told them."Creative Music Foundation in the News: U.K.'s Wire Magazine Features CMS
The history of the Creative Music Studio, the Woodstock Utopia where Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso channelled Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz philosophies into radical musical education, by Howard MandelCreative Music Foundation Launches Fund Drive to Support the Creative Music Studio 40th Anniversary
Creative Music Foundation launches fund drive to support the Creative Music Studio 40th Anniversary. Never before has a need been so urgent: to offer musicians creative space to expand, experiment and deepen their connection to the transformative power of music. CMF has an array of exciting programs - workshops, fellowships, scholarships, reunions, benefit concerts and retreats -- all of which require funding for success. Please help. We cannot do it without your financial support. (SEE our Support page)CMS Archive Project
The latest batch of tapes digitized for the CMS Archive Project uncovered gems from 1978 with the following CMS Guiding Artists: Karl Berger, Jimmy Giuffre, David Izenson, Ingrid Sertso, James Harvey, and the CMS Orchestra; CMS at Carnegie Recital Hall; Colin Walcott; Eugene Chadbourne & Andrea Centazzo; Famadou Don Moye; Garrett List A-1 Art Band; Julius Hemphill; Marion Brown; Michael Lytle & George Cartwright; Oliver Lake & Michael Gregory; Wadada Leo Smith; Marlyn Crispell; Steve Lacy, Jeanne Lee and the CMS Orchestra, and the New Years Intensive with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
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