Music Improv Boot Camp w/ Kat Kuo

Dates: 

•  Wednesdays December 3rd & December 10
  
• Grad Show - December 12

Time: 6-8PM
Instructor: Kat Kuo
Class Size: Minimum of 6; maximum of 10

Always wanted to try improvising songs? Here’s a quick-and-dirty intro to flexing your vocal cords! With veteran improviser Kat Kuo as your guide, you’ll focus on a few of the core skills involved in making up songs onstage, learn some basic games, then get to perform them as an opener for Rochester’s own improvised indie rock band, Mouth Harpo!

ABOUT THE TEACHER

Kat Kuo graduated from her first improv course at ComedySportz of the Triangle in 1998. Since then, she has studied with Baltimore Improv Group, improv Little Rock, PIT, Buffalo Improv House, and Buffalo Comedy Collective, plus instructors specializing in music-based improv from around the country and beyond. She is a current member of ComedySportz Buffalo and the Focus Theater’s Artistic Council. Kat founded the “improvised rockumentary” musical improv group Ham Radio for 2024’s Rochester Fringe Festival and currently supplies vocals and chaotic percussion for Mouth Harpo, Rochester’s only improvised indie rock band.

ABOUT THE ACCOMPANIST

Shaun is a multi instrumentalist and instrument maker drawing from 15 years of immersion in a wide spectrum of musical performance, including experimental noise, jazz, hip-hop, and other cross cultural exchanges with musicians from diverse traditions of music making/instrument building. Over the last few years, Shaun has been unfolding a love for musical improv comedy as well, supplying musical backbone to both Ham Radio in 2024 and Mouth Harpo in 2025.