Wed, Sep 08, 2010
History of CMSCMS Productions is the umbrella entity for Christian Musician Summit conferences, Christian Musician and Worship Musician! magazines, and the CMS Media Division. CMS Productions was co-founded by Bruce Adolph, president of the Adolph Agency, Inc., and Matt Kees, president of Christian Musician Summit, Inc.
Bruce has been publishing Christian Musician Magazine since 1996, and Worship Musician! Magazine since 2004. Before moving up to the Puget Sound area, he worked as the general manager of a musical instrument store in the LA area. Matt has been in the conference business since 2002. From 1993 to January 2008, Matt was on staff at Our Savior Lutheran in Tacoma, WA as the worship leader. In addition, he is a producer, songwriter and musician. These two met in 2002 when Matt was in the process of producing his conference Worship More. They thought it would be a cool idea to combine their talents and passions. In 2003, they produced their very first conference called the Christian Musician Summit. Starting in 2009, Matt & Bruce have produced four CMS conferences across the country; CMS@Overlake, their flagship event, the Thriving Musician Summit at Bayside Church in Roseville, CA (Lincoln Brewster’s church), CMS@theChapel in Buffalo, NY (partnering with Kingdom Bound Ministries), and CMS Southwest in Scottsdale, AZ (partnering with Spirit West Coast).
In addition to the CMS conferences, Bruce and Matt produce the Songwriter Boot Camps, Vocals Boot Camps, and Audio Intensives. Their most recent project is called the Conference in a Box DVD Series. This training series of workshops recorded mostly at their conferences is distributed by Hal Leonard Publishing. All things CMS Pro can be found at the new ChristianMusician.com. |
