Stephen nachmanovitch biography

American jazz musician

Stephen Nachmanovitch (born 1950) is an American musician, author, artist, and educator. He performs and teaches internationally as an improvisational violinist, and at the intersections of performing and multimedia arts, philosophy, and ecology.

Biography

Born in 1950, Nachmanovitch grew up in Los Angeles and studied at Harvard University and the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he earned a PhD in the History of Consciousness for an exploration of William Blake.

His mentor was the anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson.

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At Harvard he worked with Jerome Bruner and Irven DeVore. He has taught and lectured widely in the United States and abroad on creativity and the spiritual underpinnings of art. Since the 1970s he was a pioneer in free improvisation on violin, viola and electric violin^[1] and opened up many techniques now used in electroacoustic music.

He has presented master classes and wor