Ingrid Sertso/Karl Berger with Peter Apfelbaum "Celebrating Life" Benefit Concert at The Falcon

A Festival Style Benefit Concert!

Celebrate the inimitable vocalist, Ingrid Sersto’s recovery, from a long hospitalization, with a benefit performance. Proceeds of tonight's contributions will offset Ingrid's staggering medical costs.

Featuring Ingrid Sertso, Karl Berger, Peter Apfelbaum, Steve Gorn/Bansuri Flute, Kenny Wessel/Guitar, Tani Tabbal/Drums. A performance with A list improvisers!

Karl Berger
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Award-winning composer/arranger/conductor,Karl Berger, wrote and recorded over 200 compositions and arrangements for classical ensembles, jazz groups, song-writers and performers, big bands, symphony and crossover projects. He has gained critical acclaim for his original scores for live orchestras and ensembles and for numerous recordings....

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A Festival Style Benefit Concert!

Celebrate the inimitable vocalist, Ingrid Sersto’s recovery, from a long hospitalization, with a benefit performance. Proceeds of tonight's contributions will offset Ingrid's staggering medical costs.

Featuring Ingrid Sertso, Karl Berger, Peter Apfelbaum, Steve Gorn/Bansuri Flute, Kenny Wessel/Guitar, Tani Tabbal/Drums. A performance with A list improvisers!

Karl Berger
karlberger.wordpress.com
Award-winning composer/arranger/conductor,Karl Berger, wrote and recorded over 200 compositions and arrangements for classical ensembles, jazz groups, song-writers and performers, big bands, symphony and crossover projects. He has gained critical acclaim for his original scores for live orchestras and ensembles and for numerous recordings.

As a performer ( piano, vibraphone ) Karl won 6 Downbeat Critics Awards and remains internationally active on the concert and residency circuits for new music and innovative jazz. The Karl Berger Improvisers Orchestra and Ensembles are influential forces to date. He now records for John Zorn’s Tzadik label.

With Ornette Coleman and Ingrid Sertso, Karl Berger founded the Creative Music Foundation, with the legendary Creative Music Studio at the core. CMS maintained a year-round program and campus in Woodstock, New York, that attracted many world-renowned composers and improvising artists of many instruments and traditions from around the world. At CMS Karl Berger developed his Music Mind approach for heightened focus on detail, emotional expression, and cross-cultural communication, with the universal Gamala Taki Rhythmic Training at its center.

Karl Berger earned a PhD in Music Esthetics and was Chair of Music Departments in Frankfurt/Germany (1992–2000) and at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth ( 203 -2005 ).

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