The Barton Workshop is an Amsterdam-based ensemble founded in 1989 by the American composer and trombonist James Fulkerson. It is devoted to experimental music and often gives composer-portrait concerts prepared together with the composers. It has worked with Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Nicolas Collins, Steve Lacy, Philip Corner and Hyo-shin Na, among others. Its recordings for Mode include music by Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, James Tenney and Frank Denyer.
Rare 2006 CD on Megadisc Classics of late compositions for ensemble from the late 1980's / early 90's, performed by tJames Fulkerson's Barton Workshop.
2025 stock "The latest LP from veteran fluxus composer Philip Corner. OM Entering. and Once Enterd comprises four previously unreleased recordings with the Barton Workshop, taken from performances in the Netherlands, and South Korea, between 2000-2007. 'Om Entrance which one does....because the performance is a real "passage from the material to the spiritual" unless the "real" world is just as spiritual already which i like to think it is. As perhaps an everyday awareness is already to be entra…
Chamber works by Christian Wolff from 1950 to 1987, mostly first recordings, including the Serenade written at sixteen, the Harriet Tubman setting for voice and trio, and For Morty, played by The Barton Workshop under James Fulkerson.