Thanks for being on this journey with us for our first year

This year we have been so fortunate to work with wonderful organizations and venues throughout in the Capital Region to present the five-day 2024 Improv Spaces Music Festival, five additional live performances with improvising musicians and artists, run the Open Workshops at Saratoga Arts in the Spring, and establish the Improv Sessions for improvising musicians and collaborators.

We are proud to have supported more than 54 artists for Live Performances in Saratoga and the Greater Capital Region!

Photos of The Long Jam by Sam Chabot (black and white images) and Improv Spaces Music Festival by Kylie Spinelli (colored images).

Improv Spaces is so thankful to be in residence with Saratoga Arts, allowing us to present performances, conduct workshops, and practice in their theater and music studios this past year. We would also like to thank our board members, fiscal sponsor the New York Foundation for the Arts, program sponsors, everyone who voted for us for the Saratoga Participatory Budget, and those who donated to make our programs possible this year!

Improv Spaces has begun their artist-in-residence at The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall and invites you to the upcoming incubator project workshop performance Sonic Explorations in Troy with the Rock City Falls Trio (with Improv Spaces’s co-directors Alex Chang on harp and Adam Forman on drums, with Jason Handron on bass) in collaboration with the talented Troy-based artist and multi-instrumentalist Manuel J. Perez III on February 25, 2025 at 7pm. The workshop performance is FREE and open to the public.

We are excited to announce that the 2025 Improv Spaces Music Festival will be taking place at the Round Lake Auditorium on Saturday, June 7th, 2025 with the premier of Sonic Explorations in Troy and a festival highlight featuring new work from the Human Rites Trio with renown musicians Jason Kao Hwang (composer, violin, viola), Andrew Drury (drum set), Ken Filiano (string bass), along with many additional talented improvisers from the region and beyond!

For information about donating to Improv Spaces or sponsoring the 2025 festival, please visit us here.

We’re so grateful for and appreciate all the people and organizations we’ve worked with and got to know this year. Creating community and connection has been a main goal of Improv Spaces. We would like to wish you all a wonderful year upcoming and hope to see you soon!

Alex and Adam
Co-directors, Improv Spaces