This is a guest post by double bassist Jean-Yves Bénichou. Benjy is bi-national, being a citizen of both the United States and France. He has lived in France for the past 30 years and has been a member of the Strasbourg Philharmonic since 1985. He studied double bass...
I’d like to thank readers for all of the great comments (both via e-mail and through the comments on the blog) about the most recent installment of Road Warrior Without an Expense Account. This information and perspective on the music performance degree...
Chicago Symphony double bassist and CSO Bass Blog blogger Michael Hovnanian wrote a recent post about the dynamic between the Chicago Symphony and Bernard Haitink. It sounds like the working atmosphere has improved considerably in the Chicago Symphony since the...
Bassists who are feverishly practicing for audition x, y, or z this month may want to take a break and head on over to Matt Heller’s recent post containing some unusual audition advice from Philip Myers, principal horn of the New York Philharmonic.Here are the...
Here’s a version of the first movement of the Capuzzi Double Bass Concerto performed by high school junior Alejandro Bustillos for the District Music Contest at Omaha South High School. He is accompanied by pianist Sara Kellerman. The bass comes through much...
