Edward W. Sarath

Professor of Jazz and Improvisation Studies
sarahara@umich.edu
734-763-1321

Edward Sarath is active as a performer on the flugelhorn, recording artist, composer, author and guest clinician. His latest CD Last Day in May (Konnex Records, Berlin) features internationally-acclaimed artists Dave Liebman, Mick Goodrick, Harvie Swartz and Marvin "Smitty" Smith. His prior recording, Voice of the Wind (Owl Records, Paris) features Liebman, Joanne Brackeen, Cecil McBee and Billy Hart.

Professor Sarath has received fellowship grants for both jazz composition and performance from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the American Council of Learned Societies to design a course entitled "Creativity and Consciousness." His articles appear in the Journal of Music Theory, International Journal for Music Education, Jazz Research Papers, Jazz Educators Journal and Jazz Changes.

He has performed at the Montreux, North Sea, Antibes, Le Mans, London and Montreux-Detroit jazz festivals.  Sarath performs regularly with the French-based ensemble Cache Cache, winner of the 1992 Radio France Jazz Competition. He has given master classes at major conservatories throughout the U.S., Europe and Brazil. Recent projects include a commissioned composition for the Cologne Jazz Orchestra with guest soloists David Liebman and seven-time Grammy award winner Michael Brecker. He recently led the School's Creative Arts Orchestra, an eclectic improvising ensemble, on an East Coast tour. He is U.S. coordinator and a member of the board of directors of the International Association of Schools of Jazz.

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