... He also worked with new music artists such as Jerome Kitzke, Elizabeth Panzer, Kathy Supove, Mike Lowenstern and Bruce Gremo. Ware was chosen to be the drummer for the first live Internet broadcast between the Knitting Factory and the Montreux Jazz Festival - a real time interactive concert performance with British saxophonist Courtney Pine and percussionist Mino Cinelu. He was also the first jazz musician/composer to be officially invited to teach and perform at the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China in April 1997 - an opportunity that grew out of several visits to China to study internal martial arts. He has recorded for many independent labels including Knitting Factory Works and CIMP. His own independent release in 2001, 'Ed Ware's Tree' received critical acclaim including a four star review in the January 2001 issue of Down Beat magazine, with that trio being engaged by Carnegie Hall for two seasons on their neighborhood concert series.   Aside from private study of piano, solfege, harmony, counterpoint and analysis with Mr Paul Caputo, Ware has recently completed studies at Brooklyn College (working with Professors Amnon Wollman, Ellie Hisama, Philip Rupprecht, George Brunner and Tania Leon) resulting in a Masters Degree in Composition.   He currently resides in New York City with his wife and their daughter where he continues to compose and record, teach Tai Chi Chuan and Chi Gung and occasionally perform. <<