Robert Price’s solo performances involve a range from traditional clarinet repertoire and world music to new music improvisation. His improvisation depends greatly on the sounds of the audience. He incorporates movement as well as visual art into his performance. While he is in residence, he will work in collaboration with a variety of media as well as a variety of age groups and abilities.
Dr. Bob Price is the founding President of Present Time Dream Factory since its beginning in 1992 in Santa Fe, NM. He is an accomplished clarinetist and scholar who has taught at The University of Texas at Dallas, The College of Santa Fe and Thomas Edison State College where he currently teaches courses in Humanities and World Religions. He has also taught music at schools in Portland, Oregon, where he has been fighting for music in the schools in this age of drastic cuts in education.
His musical experiences have taken his work into interdisciplinary and multicultural performance. He studied music at the University of North Texas before leaving to perform with a professional new music improvisation quartet, BL Lacerta, that established residencies at the Booker T. Washington School of the Visual and Performing Arts (Dallas, Texas), the Dallas Museum of Art, and the University of Texas at Dallas.
He eventually earned a B.A. in art and performance at the University of Texas at Dallas, a master’s degree in liberal arts at St. John’s in Santa Fe and a doctorate in art and performance through the distance education program at the Union Institute and University. His doctoral research was interdisciplinary and had strong Native studies and depth psychology components. He is an enrolled member of the state-recognized tribe, Tslagiyi Nvdagi. His dissertation was a series of nine-day performances he calls “Novenas,” which was the core project for Present Time Dream Factory. Learn more about The Novena Project. The non-profits Bob Price has founded, including Present Time Dream Factory, have helped sponsor performances by Phillip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Deborah Hay, Carolina Nericcio, Latif Bolat, John Cage, Mosaic Dance Company, Kali Lila, etc. as well as Marissa Mission’s many projects.