Last Thursday, Oberlin Sinfonietta performed George Lewis’ largely improvised piece for open instrumentation, “Arcades,” ...

Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...

On Saturday, the Deep In The Valley music festival is bringing the sounds of psychedelic improvisation to Red Hook, New York. The festival is the brainchild of Andy French, the writer behind music ...

Percussionist Adam Forman is a co-founder of Improv Spaces, a hub for improvisational and experimental music. the nonprofit is debuting the Improv Spaces Music Ensemble at its annual music festival on ...

Rochester, N.Y. — Local musicians got a chance to learn some tricks of the trade Monday. Pianist Peter Johnstone led a jazz workshop at the Eastman School of Music, helping students of all ages learn ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

ROUND LAKE, N.Y. — Improv Spaces will be putting on the first annual IMPROV SPACES Music Festival, a five-day event featuring music and interdisciplinary collaborations, including dance and visual ...

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The Bachelor of Music (B.M.) in Jazz and Improvisation is for musicians pursuing careers in jazz, studio recording, and performance in contemporary idioms (popular, world, experimental). The core ...

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