teaching

MILES DAVIS - BITCHES BREW WORKSHOP
Armed with the charts that he transcribed from Miles Davis' 1970 seminal record, Previte travels to locations around the world, rehearses musicians and directs them in a concert performance. Previte has done this to critical acclaim in Sydney, Australia; Melbourne, Australia; the Cheltenham Jazz Festival/Birmingham Conservatoire, UK; and in Buffalo, New York, selling out the famed Tralfamadore.

The musicians who experience this are transformed overnight; many remark that playing this music is cathartic and life-changing. Previte's Bitches Brew Project is the perfect vehicle for teaching musicians patience, thoughtfulness, deep listening, and above of all, how to banish fear from their playing.

MASTER CLASS - GUEST WORKSHOP
Bobby Previte delivers a multi instrument and multi disciplinary workshop for all levels of student and professional musicians, artists, and the interested general public. The workshop consists of a lecture, a question and answer period, and a demonstration, through recorded music, of many of the concepts discussed in the lecture.

These include: possible goals and directions of a life in music, and of musical education; the different techniques needed to reach those different goals; practicing regimens, the idea of practice being music and not a separate thing; the attaining of one's own "sound" and "voice" in music; the enjoyment of your own sound; the importance and use of the other disciplines (painting, writing, dance, film, architecture, even some sports) to the musician; the use and misuse of imitation; the seductive power of "beauty" and it's dangers; detachment as a strategy; the un-setting of one's mind; the stages of "hearing' in a continuing career-how to hear, how to listen; context and it's importance; the power of expectation; the surprising freedom in limitation; risk taking; true free thinking; John Cage, Stravinsky, Debussy, Miles Davis, William Faulkner, Led Zeppelin, Gregory Bateson, Balanchine, Mies van der Rohe, Brunelleschi's Dome, and Napoleon.

Previte has led workshops at The Eastman School of Music, The New School, Cornish University, The School of Jazz, Perth, Australia, The University of Buffalo, Istanbul Conservatory, The Walker Art Center, and the Lucerne School of Music

PRIVATE LESSONS
By appointment in Previte's New York City studio.

For more information, email: concertmaster@bobbyprevite.com