“Remembering Don Cherry” With Guest Soloists Peter Apfelbaum and Graham Haynes Saturday, September 30 at the El Taller Cultural Community Center, NYC The Creative Music Studio™ Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Karl Berger, will commence its fall season on Saturday, September 30 at the El Taller Cultural Community Center at 215, East 99th Street in Read more…
CMS Improvisers Orchestra at El Taller; CMS Ensembles at Greenwich House Music School The Creative Music Studio™ has announced its Fall 2017 series of concerts in New York City with four performances by the CMS Improvisers Orchestra (CIO) conducted by artistic director Karl Berger, along with a series of three Read more…
CMS Ensembles To Perform at Woodstock’s Maverick Concerts (September 2) and at the Drum Boogie Festival (September 9); Scholarships Now Available for the CMS Fall Workshop with Billy Martin, Mary Halvorson, Omar Tekbilek and Others The revamped Creative Music Studio™ will present “in the Spirit of Don Cherry’ at Woodstock’s Read more…
“In The Spirit of Don Cherry” to be Performed by the CMS Improvisers Octet Led by Karl Berger Saturday, September 2, 2017, 8:00pm at Maverick Concerts, Woodstock, NY The revamped Creative Music Studio™ will present In the Spirit of Don Cherry at Woodstock’s legendary Maverick Concerts, Saturday, September 2, Read more…
New Blood Revitalizes Creative Music Studio It hardly seems possible but Woodstock’s own Creative Music Studio, that ethereal prodigy of a golden era, has been sent to the gym and returned rippling with muscle. Like the town’s original experiment in freedom (known since 1905 simply as “The Maverick”) CMS remains, Read more…
CMS and its artistic team of Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Steven Bernstein, Billy Martin and Peter Apfelbaum will be in residence this week (June 27 – July 2) at The Stone, John Zorn’s performance space on 2nd Street and Avenue C in NYC. Performances begin at 8:30pm in concerts featuring Read more…
Creative Music Studio Changes Hands at a Critical Moment in Jazz CMS Spring 2017 Workshop. photo by karin wolfe New York Times music critic Giovanni Russonello profiles CMS in a feature article, ‘Creative Music Studio Changes Hands at a Critical Moment in Jazz‘, which was published today. The article was Read more…
By Martin Longley, a music critic who writes for The Guardian, Downbeat, All About Jazz, Songlines and Jazzwise, among others. video: geoff baer Video: Joseph boulet Opening Concert, Monday 12th June The opening Monday night concert of the CMS spring workshop displayed the talents of its guiding artists, playing together Read more…
Mary Halvorson, Billy Martin and Omar Faruk Tekbilek To Lead Creative Music Studio Fall Workshop OCTOBER 2 – 6, 2017 WORKSHOP FEATURES INTENSIVE MASTER CLASSES, JAM SESSIONS AND INTIMATE CONCERTS WITH GUIDING ARTISTS IN A SPECTACULAR MOUNTAINSIDE SETTING IN UPSTATE NEW YORK Guitarist, composer and bandleader Mary Halvorson, Creative Music Read more…
Series Features Small Ensembles to Orchestras, From NYC to the Catskills Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso May 30, 2017, Woodstock, NY – The enduring spirit if the Creative Music Studio™, nearing its fifty-year anniversary, will be showcased in a month-long series of concerts from New York City to the organization’s Read more…