Special guests MIN XIAO-FEN and SIRIUS QUARTET
with Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Billy Martin and Ken Filiano
Saturday • Sept. 7th • 12-6pm (workshops / masterclass) featuring MIN XIAO-FEN
Sunday • Sept. 8th • 12-6pm (workshops / masterclass) featuring SIRIUS QUARTET
Sunday • Sept. 8th • 8pm • performances with workshop participants, Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Billy Martin, Ken Filiano and TBA
Creative Music Studio™ will present a 2 day intensive workshop program (12 hours) followed by a performance open to the public on Sunday evening 8pm at The New School, 55 West 13th Street, New York City
Learn from the unique expertise and musical experience of Min Xiao-Fen and Sirius Quartet during their intimate masterclass sessions.
In addition, learn from CMS guiding artists Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Ken Filiano, and Billy Martin on core principles of the CMS creative process:
– Music Mind
– GaMaLa Taki
– Vocal Work
– Improvisers Orchestra
– Deep Listening
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ABOUT OUR FEATURED GUEST ARTISTS
Min Xiao-Fen studied with her father, Min Ji-Qian, a professor and pipa instructor at Nanjing University, and performed as a pipa soloist for the Nanjing National Music Orchestra from 1980 to 1992. Min emigrated to the United States in 1992, first settling in San Francisco, California.
She has worked with numerous contemporary composers, including Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Carl Stone, Anthony De Ritis, Marc Battier, and John Zorn. She has worked with the jazz saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. Min worked with Björk on the song “I See Who You Are” on Björk’s album Volta, released on May 7, 2007.
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Sirius Quartet
Internationally acclaimed veterans of contemporary music, Sirius Quartetcombines exhilarating repertoire with unequalled improvisational fire. These conservatory-trained performer-composers shine with precision, soul and a raw energy rarely witnessed on stage, championing a forward-thinking, genre-defying approach that makes labels like ‘New Music’ sound tame.
Since their debut concert at the original Knitting Factory in New York City, Sirius has played some of the most important venues in the world, including Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the Beijing Music Festival, the Cologne Music Triennale, Stuttgart Jazz, Musique Actuelle in Canada, the Taichung Jazz Fest – Taiwan’s biggest jazz event – and many others.
Having premiered works by significant living composers, Sirius continues their long-running commitment to musical innovation with bold, original works by its own members, pushing beyond the conventional vocabulary of string instruments by incorporating popular song forms, extended techniques, gripping improvisations and undeniable, contemporary grooves.
