Peter Apfelbaum Conducted Improv #1

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Loove is elated to welcome back the inimitable PETER APFELBAUM & a fantabulous ORCHESTRA of improvisers (some new, some returning) for the first session of CONDUCTED IMPROV at LOOVE ANNEX-! Called "a visionary, galvanic composer and player like few others of his time" by CMJ New Music Report, multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum is best known as leader of the genre-mashing big band, Hieroglyphics, which he formed while still in high school in 1977. The ensemble began to attract international attention in the 1980's for its unique fusing of elements of world music with the aesthetics of the jazz avant-garde and has remained Apfelbaum's primary vehicle for composing throughout his career. In 2013, he formed the electronica-based, vocal-driven sextet Sparkler, which released its debut EP, "I Colored It In For You," on Bill Laswell's MOD Technologies label in 2017. Apfelbaum has worked with many of the leading figures in contemporary music, including the late Don Cherry, Kronos Quartet, Cecil Taylor, Harry Belafonte, Omar Sosa and Phish. He currently performs with Dafnis Prieto's various bands - he received a Grammy award in 2018 as part of Prieto's album "Back To The Sunset" - and Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra, among others. Since 2017 he has been an Artistic Director of the Woodstock, NY-based Creative Music Studio; in July 2023 he took over as conductor of the late CMS founder Karl Berger's Creative Improvisers Orchestra, which performs monthly at the Shirt Factory in Kingston.