Improvisation, Time, and Transcendence with Ed Sarath

Vassar Creative Arts invites you to a workshop with Professor of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation, Ed Sarath. He will be joining us on Thursday, November 17th at 5pm in Thekla Hall (4th floor Skinner Hall) for an interactive exploration of improvisation. Please fill out the required fields below to register for this workshop.

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Ed Sarath divides his time between teaching, scholarship, performing, composing, recording, speaking, and spearheading leadership initiatives that aim to bring an expanded vision of creativity and consciousness development to musical study and education at large.

Sarath is professor of music in the Department in Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation, of which he was the founding faculty member and chair (1987-2007), at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD). He is also director of U-M’s Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies, an interdisciplinary network of colleagues interested in the inner workings of creativity and its foundations in consciousness. He founded and serves as president of the International Society for Improvised Music (www.isimprov.org), an organization devoted to promoting awareness of the importance of improvisational studies in musical training and improvised music in today’s diverse world.