Ed Sarath

Both as a performer and as an educator at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, flügelhornist Ed Sarath has brought a distinctively open-minded sensibility to jazz and creative music as taught and practiced in the Midwestern United States. Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Program in Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the U of M School of Music, Sarath is director of the Creative Arts Orchestra, a student ensemble which employs a variety of approaches to composition and collective improvisation, as well as co-director of the Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, a...