"Creative Music Workshop is
teaching music with a capital M."

- Jerry Granelli - founder

- Ross Burns, faculty

"Positive stuff for life, both
musically and every day."

"People walk away with a
greater sense of themselves
which inevitably improves
their playing."

- Susanne Chui, faculty

"A spirituality bootcamp for artists."

- Bianca Palmer, student

"Explore improvisation
in a natural way."

- J. Anthony Granelli, director

The Creative Music Workshop

12-20 July 2025 - Registration Opens - 21 April 2025!

Creativity and improvisation as a way to learn: CMW is active all year long, but is centred around an 8-day summer program for musicians and artists of all disciplines which takes place during the Halifax Jazz Festival in Nova Scotia. The CMW’s founder and long-time director Jerry Granelli died in July of 2021 at the age of 80. Now under the leadership of his son J. Anthony Granelli (Brooklyn-based bassist/composer/improviser and long-time CMW faculty), the program continues to bring together musicians from around the world through the teaching of the CMW’s very unique creative process.

Creative Music Workshop

Creative Music Workshop

A program where the ensemble is the classroom and improvisation is a path to learning. CMW will take your creative practice to a new level.

Faculty

Faculty

Meet our faculty

Every year the Creative Music Workshop welcomes internationally renowned musicians and artists to join our core faculty.

Creative Music Labs

Creative Music Labs

Concerts and workshops with an emphasis on improvisation, held throughout the year at 1313 Music Association in Halifax NS

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