This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass. Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts. ____________ It’s Day 5 of our...
Contrabass Conversations frequent collaborator and classicalmusicnews.tv blogger John Grillo continues his Art of the Deficit series this week with a post examining the role that the National Endowment for the Arts plays in the budgets of many symphony orchestras. ...
The Arizona Bass Players Festival and Workshop will be held March 6-9, 2008 at Arizona State University in Tuscon, Arizona. This festival will feature clinicians Rob Kassonger (also a former Contrabass Conversations guest), Catalin Rotaru, Rufus Reid, Joe...
My student Daniel Chmielinski, in addition to being a very talented bassist, runs the car enthusiast site carsleuth.net, and he started a recent vlog episode with a video commercial that he put together for Contrabass Conversations. Check it out!
Here is audition information for February 2008 posted every month on doublebassblog.org by Phillip W. Serna For many more auditions, also visit http://www.afm.org/ for information on the auditions below: Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra DOUBLE BASS – Section...