Music Improvisation Night

Improvisation Nights at 118 Elliot

Led by Anna Patton and Guest Teachers

For instrumentalists and vocalists: jump into the creation of improvised music through group improvisations, game-pieces, graphic scores, and more. Participants will have the chance to create their own structures for improvisation as well as learning existing structures. No experience is needed with free improvisation or avant-garde music as long as you have a curious ear and a willingness to make things up. $15 suggested donation, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

All dates in 2019:

Thursday, September 12, 7-10PM

Thursday, October 3, 7-10PM

Thursday, November 14, 7-10PM

Thursday, December 13, 7-10PM

About Anna Patton

Anna Patton is a versatile clarinetist, singer, composer, and educator driven by musical curiosity. She is a member of the internationally touring dance band Elixir which plays American and Celtic fiddle tunes with original trumpet-clarinet-trombone horn arrangements that are influenced by early jazz, R&B, and classical music. Other projects include duos with Andrew VanNorstrand and with Julie Vallimont, the Julian Gerstin Sextet, and the cello-oud-percussion-clarinet quartet Dunham Shoe Factory.

Anna teaches vocal and instrumental ensemble classes, music theory, and aural skills at workshops all over the US an in her home town of Brattleboro, VT. In 2006, Anna started the Soubrette Jazz Choir at the Vermont Jazz Center which performs her creative arrangements of historical and contemporary American music.

In 2015, Anna completed her Masters of Music in New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation program. With a cohort of students from all over the world and all musical backgrounds, she collaborated on performances and studied with the school’s extraordinary faculty of composers, improvisors, and ethnomusicologists.