January 14, 2007 – Jason Heath's Double Bass Blog

They All Started Laughing at Me

As I was wrapping up my Masters degree from Northwestern University in 2000, reality started to set in. I needed to pay my bills as a musician! I had won a position in the Milwaukee Ballet and in the IRIS Chamber Orchestra (I ended up getting a position in the Elgin...

IRIS Chamber Orchestra – Finding Rothko

We just completed the January IRIS concert tonight here in Memphis, Tennessee, and it really got a great reception. Jason Vieaux played fabulously, and the commission by Adam Schoenberg went really well.Finding Rothko (Adam’s commission) was a really rich and...

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