Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Finding Rothko, The IRIS Chamber Orchestra’s latest commissioned work by composer Adam Schoenberg, just won one of the 2007 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. This is exciting news for Adam, and it is more evidence of the high level of musical activity associated with the IRIS Chamber Orchestra.
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This is a post from double bassist from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music student Nicholas Hart. Nick will be contributing weekly posts to the bass blog about life as a music student in one of the nation’s most exclusive programs. I think readers will find this different perspective on the double bass world and the [...]

Double bassist Matt Heller (former New World Symphony member and recent addition to the Calgary Philharmonic bass section) put out an interesting post recently about the used of colored pens (or pens) as a making device for musical scores. Check out the post here.
This is something that I have been experimenting quite a bit [...]

Drew McManus is featuring several contributions from bassists this month for the Take a Friend to Orchestra initiative on his blog Adaptistration. I was just featured yesterday, and Bill Harris (from Facilitated Systems) was also featured earlier this month.
I’d like to direct people’s attention to Milwaukee Symphony double bassist Roger Ruggeri’s post from earlier [...]

My contribution to the Take a Friend to Orchestra initiative is now posted, so folks can check out today’s post at Adaptistration (the excellent blog that Drew McManus authors) to read my thoughts on how to introduce classical music to a newbie.
Drew has been featuring a wide array essays from classical music figures [...]

Double bassist Ben Rothschild recently sent me some interesting bits of bass and music world news, and I will be doling these out over the next few days. For starters, Northwestern University recently announced that they will be offering full tuition to all incoming Doctor of Music students. Here is an excerpt from [...]

Here is a video of a 17-year-old student playing the first movement of the Bottesini Concerto for a competition. I like how the camera is carefully hidden from the audience–it makes the space he is playing in look quite bizarre. He admits (in the comments for this video) that there are a fair [...]

I just got some new listings posted on the Bass Blog For Sale Page, including a new student model bass and some Pirastro strings. If you’re looking for a bass, bow, or other low end gear, check out what is listen. If you’d like to have some gear listed yourself, just drop me [...]

I am busy adding links to the Bass Blog Sheet Music Store, trying to provide links to what I consider to be the most important solos, method books, etude books, orchestral studies books, and more. This section of the blog will continue to grow over time, so feel free to check in from time [...]

I’ve had the same scenario happen many times since starting this blog—a colleague or friend I haven’t seen for months will run into me on the street or at a gig. They remark on how much they enjoy my blog, sometimes even quoting specific passages from different articles or cite specific posts, videos, podcast [...]