Karl Berger Named Chairman of UMass Dartmouth Music Department

A press release announcing that Karl Berger, musician, composer and co-founder of the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York, had been named chairman of the music department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from the fall 2004 semester.

Berger said the agreement included bringing the Creative Music Studio program into the university's year-round schedule, and pointed to the department's combination of world music, jazz and Western classical music. The release named faculty including percussionist Royal Hartigan and bassist Santi Debriano.

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