Boston Symphony principal bass Ed Barker will be presenting a masterclass on Wednesday, March 8th from 9-11 a.m. at Roosevelt University (Michigan and Congress) in Ganz Hall on the 7th floor.

Only Chicago College of Performing Arts students will be performing, but all are welcome to audit!

About Edwin Barker

Associate Professor of Music, Double Bass. BM, New England Conservatory. Principal Double Bass, Boston Symphony Orchestra. Former member, Chicago Symphony, Albany Symphony. Edwin Barker has performed and recorded with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and with Collage, a Boston-based contemporary music ensemble. He is also a frequent guest performer with the Boston Chamber Music Society in Boston’s Jordan Hall. Edwin Barker performed the world premiere of James Yannato’s Bass Concerto (which was written especially for him) with ALEA III and subsequently with Collage. He was the featured soloist at the New England premiere of Gunther Schuller’s Bass Concerto, conducted by the composer, with the Boston Pro Art Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Barker’s major teaching affiliations include the Tanglewood Music Center, Boston University, and the New England Conservatory of Music. Mr. Barker graduated with Honors from the New England Conservatory in 1976 where he studied double bass with Henry Portnoi. That same year, while a member of the Chicago Symphony, he was appointed at age twenty-two to the position of principal bassist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Barker continues to tour and perform internationally with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Other solo engagements include appearances at Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood, Carnegie Recital Hall’s “Sweet and Low” series, and recitals at major universities and conferences throughout the world. His other engagements have included solo appearances with the Boston Classical Orchestra as well as with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston and Europe. In July 1995, Mr. Barker was chosen by Maestro Sir Georg Solti to lead the bass section of the United Nations’ orchestra “Musicians of the World,” an orchestra comprised of prominent musicians from the world’s finest orchestras. Edwin Barker’s other double bass teachers have included Peter Mercurio, Richard Stephan, and Angelo LaMariana.

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