IMPROV SPACES MUSIC FESTIVAL — Day 3!

Day 3 of the IMPROV SPACES MUSIC FESTIVAL Thomas Dressler Historic Organ Improvisation on the Round Lake Auditorium Davis-Ferris Organ A talk about Baroque and Historic improvisation on the organ and a special performance on the Round Lake Auditorium’s Davis-Ferris Organ by Thomas Dressler. Dressler will be speaking about the Round Lake Auditorium’s historic Davis-Ferris Organ as well as the history of improvisation on the organ from Gregorian themes to Baroque music. He will play from a transcribed improvisation by J.S. Bach and improvise on the historic Round Lake organ. New Sounds for Organ Trio Dressler’s program will be followed by a series of contemporary exploratory improvisations on the pipe organ with Round Lake resident and organist Jonathan Fuller and Improv Spaces co-directors Alex Chang on the harp and Adam Forman on the drums. Thomas Dressler Thomas Dressler is known for exciting, passionate performances on the organ and harpsichord which combine warm musicality with historic techniques. He has been performing for more than thirty years, often on historic instruments, including some of America’s oldest and most historic organs. http://www.thomasdressler.com Jonathan Fuller Jonathan Fuller holds a bachelor of music degree in horn performance from the State University of New York at Fredonia. While at Fredonia he studied horn with Marc Guy and musicology with James A. Davis. He held principal horn chairs in Fredonia’s symphony orchestra, wind ensemble, chamber orchestra and with the Hillman Opera Orchestra, and was fourth horn in the Western New York Chamber Orchestra. Jonathan was a finalist in Fredonia’s 2006 Concerto Competition and appears as a performer on Commissions and Concertos (Albany Records TROY1252). Jonathan has played organ since 2015 and was organist and senior choir director at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Clifton Park from 2018 until 2021. In November 2018 he led the senior choir to Carnegie Hall to premiere two works by Pepper Choplin. Jonathan has lived in Round Lake since 2008 and frequently assists visiting organists with the Davis-Ferris organ. Alex Chang is an electric acoustic harpist. She experiments with the diversity and sweep of resonances of the electric harp — from astral tones to wailing walls of distortion. Her musical practice finds its foundations in free jazz, indie rock, Celtic and new music, and her classical training. She explores entanglements and embodied practices through the concepts of free jazz and improvisation and the ways in which music moves through us and puts us in relation and dialogue with others. Her interest in interdisciplinary collaborative practices attends to how improvisation opens up our sentience, our emotional and empathic relations around us and beyond as intertwined beings for connection and healing. Within her interdisciplinary practice, she focuses on the arts and environment and centering BIPOC communities. She is also the co-director of Improv Spaces and runs the Improv Spaces Music Festival with creative partner percussionist Adam Forman. Improv Spaces is based in upstate New York in Saratoga County and Capital Region, developing projects that can help to serve as a hub in the region and provide resources for new music with a community of interdisciplinary collaborators locally and beyond. Adam Forman Adam Forman is a classically trained drummer/percussionist who has performed in a wide range of musical settings. He has worked with composer/director/multi- instrumentalist Joe Fee and innovative collective IKTUS Percussion. His deep focus on improvisational practice and sensibilities allows for inventive syntheses of his experiences in experimental musical performance, including his punk and indie-rock influenced work. He has significant performance experience including at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Austin, Texas as a member of Talujon Percussion Quartet and with the Argento Chamber Ensemble, Fireworks Ensemble, and Greenwich Village Orchestra, as well as with the Manhattan Symphonie across China, and on large-scaled cruise ships and in theaters throughout New York City. He was also drummer for the bi-coastal band Butterscotch Stanley for more than a decade. Recently he’s been exploring composing and rearranging music that would inspire unique, improvised-based performances. Adam’s arrangement of free jazz master Masahiko Togashi’s Pray was performed by the Rock City Falls Trio at their recent concert titled Equilibrium: a collaborative improv in September 2023. He is also Co-Director of Improv Spaces. Volunteer for the festival: Email [email protected] Thanks to our sponsors! Saratoga Arts made this program possible through the Community Arts Regrant Program, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Stewart's Shops Price Chopper | Market 32 Times-Union More Information improvsp

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