July 6-14, 2024

Halifax, Nova Scotia | creativemusicworkshops.com

The Creative Music Workshop (CMW) is an eight-day intensive program where the ensemble is the classroom and improvisation is more than a style, it’s a path for learning. CMW offers two streams; The full-day Core Program (10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily) and The Creative Process Program which runs for the mornings only (10 a.m.- 5 p.m. for the first weekend; 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. daily after that).

CMW students study the fundamental principles of the CMW Creative Process through a range of collective and individual exercises centred around improvisation, movement, listening, meditation, and communication. Students work with each other and the CMW faculty to explore risk-taking, fear, and self-consciousness in relation to their creative process. The program passes on knowledge not only about what it means to be a musician, dancer, etc., but what it means to be a creative person.

THE CMW CORE PROGRAM offers artists of all disciplines and skill levels the knowledge and experience required to take their artistic practice to the next level. In addition to learning the fundamentals of the CMW Creative Process, students study, discuss, and play together all day and receive intensive instruction from a renowned faculty of expert teachers. In addition to the classroom learning Core students benefit from full immersion in the Halifax Jazz Festival program: they'll have the opportunities to perform in CMW concerts in the Festival program, especially in the CMW final concert on Sunday, July 17th; and Core Program students receive an All Events Pass to the 2023 TD Halifax Jazz Festival so they can see and absorb as much music as possible during the experience.

CMW faculty includes: J. Anthony Granelli (Head instructor/Electric bass - New York City), Michael Blake (Saxophone- New York City), Susanne Chui (Dance/Movement - Halifax), Barbara Bash (Visual Art/ Calligraphy - New York City), Nicole Rampersaud (Trumpet- Fredericton), Nick Dourado (Piano/Saxophone - Toronto), Doug Cameron (Percussion- Halifax), Andrew Mackelvie - (Saxophone - Halifax), Nicolas Maclean (Guitar - Halifax), Ross Burns (Guitar & CMW coordinator - Halifax)

The Creative Music Workshop is delivered in partnership with the 1313 Music Association. We are grateful for the generous support of the Government of Canada, the Province of Nova Scotia, the City of Halifax, along with the Craig Foundation, and the Nova Scotia Community College.