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Harvey Sorgen has performed and /or recorded with the following artists HOT TUNA, AHMAD JAMAL, MICHELLE SHOCKED, PAUL SIMON,DEWEY REDMAN, DAVE DOUGLAS,DAVID SANCIOUS,MARK FELDMAN,PETE LEVIN, ZAKIR HUSSAIN, GIOVANNI HILDAGO, WADADA LEO SMITH, CAMERON BROWN, STEVE SWELL, NEIL ROLNICK, ANTHONY BRAXTON, CARTER JEFFERSON, JOHN STUBBLEFIELD,BRUCE HORNSBY, BRENDA BUFFALINO, HONI COLES, DAUNIK LAZRO, TODD REYNOLDS, DERRICK TRUCKS, ROSWELL RUDD, PHIL LESH, DAVID TORN, THE MEMPHIS PILGRIMS, BILL FRISELL, FONDA/STEVENS GROUP, CARLOS SANTANA, DRY JACK, ART LANDE, JOHN D’EARTH, NRBQ, BOB WEIR, GREG ALLMAN, MARCEL MONROE, THE MALLARDS, SORGEN-RUST-WINDBIEL TRIO, JACK DEJOHNETTE, DAVE SAMUELS, DREW GRESS, TONY LEVIN, GARTH HUDSON, JIMMY VIVINO, among many others.
Harvey Sorgen has also written and performed pieces for film and the stage, including a solo percussion piece for the New Day Repetoire Theater’s version of Antigone
WORKSHOPS – JAZZ ENSEMBLE, IMROVISATION, PERCUSSSION MASTER CLASS, AUDIO PRODUCTION
University of Michigan – Jazz and Improvisation Dept. – Ed Sarath, director
Virginia Commonwealth University Jazz Dept Antonio Garcia, Director
University of Graz Graz, Austria Udo Preis, Director
Jazz Initiative Marburg Marburg, Germany Roman Kloecker, Director Carre Blue Poiters, France Bernard Aimee, Director
Onteora Central School District – Boiceville, N.Y. – Steven Murphy, Director
Charles City Arts Council Charles City, Va. – Julie Boyd, Director
Naropa Institute Boulder, Co. in collabration with Allan Ginzberg
Jackson Field Home for Girls – Emporia, Va. Donna Waldron, Director
Numerous in- store clinics and private lessons throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Recipient of New York State Meet the Composer�and NYSCA grants.
Harvey Sorgen has been interviewed by the following magazines: Modern Drummer, DRUM!, Down Beat, All About Jazz, Jazz Podium (Germany), and Jazz Halo (Belgium).
Through Dreamland Recording Studio and freelance work, Harvey is an accomplished audio engineer and editor. Past projects include the remastering of the entire ESP record label.
Harvey Sorgen's first instructional video Drumming Made Easy is currently available worldwide from Homespun Tapes Inc. / Hal Leonard publishing. Harvey Sorgen also appears on Jack DeJohnette's Musical Expression On The Drum Set and Jorma Kaukonen's The Electric Guitar Of Jorma Kaukonen DVD’s also available from Homespun Tapes Inc.
Current endorsements include: PAISTE CYMBALS, FIDOCK HANDCRAFTED DRUMS, VIC FIRTH , REMO DRUMHEADS, and EVERYONE'S DRUMMING

Composer/bassist John Lindberg embarked on his professional career in 1975 at the age of sixteen, after having attended the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, N.Y., where he had pursued private contrabass studies with Dr. David Izenzon and Dave Holland.
He consequently immersed himself in performing music that covered a wide diversity of genres, in equally diverse venues.

The following year he settled in New York City and co-founded the String Trio of New York, a composers collective performance unit that has gone on to produce eighteen albums of original music and present hundreds of concerts worldwide. The trio celebrates its 33nrd anniversary season during the 2010/11 season.

In 1979 he formed his first ensemble dedicated to the performance of his own compositions, and since has recorded over fifty albums that feature his works.
This same year he founded Lindy Publishing Company, which to this day is the exclusive publisher of his works.
His ensembles and duo collaborations have performed hundreds of concerts throughout Europe, North and South America, East Asia and the Middle East.

As a bassist he is featured on over eighty albums, including landmark recordings with Anthony Braxton, Jimmy Lyons, Steve Lacy, Albert Mangelsdorff, Tony Coe, and Wadada Leo Smith, among other luminary figures of creative music

In 1986 be became President of Sound Directions, Inc., a not-for-profit arts presentation organization, a position he still holds.

Currently he is active as a solo contrabassist, composing for, performing and recording with varied ensemble projects, and with the String Trio of New York.

John stays actively engaged as an educator through the presentation of workshops and lecture/demonstrations on composition, improvisation, and the interconnection of music with the humanities and sciences.
He is often engaged as an artist-in-residence at schools, community centers and universities throughout the world. Most recently he served in this capacity as special faculty at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

Recently, he has expanded his work in the role of producer. Through his LindyEditions label, he has released productions and co-productions of cutting-edge music, video and film projects.

Recent select commissions of his work include those from: Galerie du Soleil for Points Suspendue for pian