In honor of Karl Berger, Peter Apfelbaum leads the Creative Music Studio Improvisers Orchestra featuring vocalist Ingrid Sertso. Audience is invited to the open rehearsal from 3-4pm, performance to follow from 4-5pm.

CIO NOVEMBER 24

Peter Apfelbaum – conductor, tenor sax, piano

Ingrid Sertso – voice and poetry

Chuck Ver Straeten – voice

Bill Horberg – flute

Charlie Burnham – violin

Brittany Anjou – piano, vibes

Steve Gorn – bansuri, clarinet

Chris Pasin – trumpet

Sylvain Leroux – fula flute, flute, qromatica

John Woodridge – alto and tenor sax

Elsa Nilsson – flute, bass flute

Ilene Marder – bansuri, flutes

Jessica Jones – tenor sax

Josh Roseman – trombone, tuba

Aliya Ultan – viola

Tony Jones – tenor sax

Bill Ylitalo – flutes

Stuart Leigh – guitar

Mike Gassmann – guitar

Ken Filiano – bass

Tani Tabbal – drums

Visiting Artists at the Creative Music Studio in the 1970s have pioneered an innovative way of blending the sounds of improvising musicians in orchestral settings, guided by the first director of CMS Karl Berger. Many concepts of improvisational orchestras spread from there to New York and around the world. CMS cultivated the original concepts in hundreds of concerts featuring mostly veteran musicians from avant rock and world music as well as jazz and classical scenes in the greater New York area.

CMS and its first artistic director, Karl Berger, have pioneered an innovative way of blending the sounds of improvising musicians in ensemble and orchestral settings. The groups are comprised of leading professional string, horn, reed, vocalists and percussionists who are conducted in live improvised performance. Using Karl Berger’s core ‘music mind’ principles. performances typically start with a rehearsal that is open to the public in which the conductor works with the group on sound, dynamics and deep listening, enabling audiences to listen in. Audiences can see how the conductor shapes the sound and feel of the group and how it inspires the musicians to harmonize and blend orchestral sounds in an improvisational setting. This ensemble of extraordinary improvising soloists explore original themes as well as melodies from the world’s folk traditions and compositions written by legendary improvisers such as Don Cherry or CMS co-founder and guiding spirit, Ornette Coleman. The emphasis lies on musical ideas that arise spontaneously during the performances. The groups can be small ensembles such as a septet or expanded to a chamber orchestra or larger 30 piece or more orchestras. For the 2022 season of concerts in Kingston NY the CIO will have 15 outstanding soloists (brass, reeds, strings, flutes, percussions and voice)

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