Bio

I am improvisor, collaborator, educator and performer. I can often be found on stages throughout the USA playing songs or accompanying theater and puppetry with:  Bury Me Standing,  Jaggery, and They Gotta Be Secret Agents. I am also an active collaborator/educator at Tunefoolery, an artist collective of musicians in mental health recovery.

 I love studying the bass, creating music and collaborating with others while sharing what I learn with students and music lovers of all ages.  My own study translates directly to the musicians with whom I play and also to the students whom I teach. As I am able to connect more deeply with my own music, I am able to facilitate others connecting to music.  By expanding my own ideas of what music is and how people can play music and create sounds, I can then encourage others to do the same in their own way. I currently teach bass at Rockport Central School and offer private lessons.

I also study the sintir (a North African bass lute) and have occasionally performed on trumpet, melodica, accordion and clown nose.

  – Tony Leva