Tim Berne is a composer, saxophonist and educator specializing in improvised music.
He has been performing internationally since 1982 with various ensembles including Caos Totale,Fractured Fairy Tales,Bloodcount and Snakeoil among others.
He has made over 50 recordings as a leader for labels such as Soul Note,Sony,JMT and currently ECM records.
Tim started his own label Screwgun records in 1996 and most recently released is Angel Dusk with Matt Mitchell.
He has taught extensively since the late 90’s giving workshops in South America,Europe and America.
Recent awards and residencies include:
New York State Council on the Arts
New York State Foundation for the Arts
Readers Digest/Meet the Composer (for the Kronos Quartet and the Rova Saxophone Quartet)
McDowell Colony
Djerassi Foundation
Civitella Ranieri
He is currently active with his Snakeoil group and Sun of Goldfinger.

Matt Mitchell is a pianist and composer interested in the intersections of various strains of acoustic, electric, composed, and improvised new music. Described as “hyper-articulate” and “a pianist of burrowing focus and an indispensable fixture of the contemporary vanguard” by Nate Chinen of The New York Times, he currently composes for and leads several ensembles featuring many of the current foremost musicians and improvisers, including Tim Berne, Kim Cass, Caroline Davis, Kate Gentile, Ben Gerstein, Sylvaine Hélary, Jon Irabagon, Travis Laplante, Ava Mendoza, Miles Okazaki, Ches Smith, Chris Speed, Tyshawn Sorey, Chris Tordini, Anna Webber, Dan Weiss, and Katie Young.
He is an anchor member of several significant creative music ensembles which integrate composed and improvised music, including Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, the Dave Douglas Quintet, John Hollenbeck’s Large Ensemble, Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Bird Calls, Jonathan Finlayson’s Sicilian Defense, the Dave Binney Quartet, Dan Weiss’s Large Ensemble, Steve Coleman’s Natal Eclipse, Kate Gentile’s Mannequins, Mario Pavone’s Blue Dialect Trio, Anna Webber’s Simple Trio, Ches Smith’s We All Break, Michael Attias’ Spun Tree, and Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux. He is also among the core performers of John Zorn’s Bagatelles.
He has taught extensively with the Brooklyn-based School for Improvisational Music, as well as at the New School, NYU, and the Siena Jazz Workshop. He is also a 2015 receipient of a Doris Duke Impact Award and a 2012 recipient of a Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.