Archive for December, 2008
A Student’s Guide to Learning a New Piece
Yazan: petertambroni | 31 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: learning, Peter Tambroni, practicing
Happy New Year readers! Peter Tambroni here, from MostlyBass.com. As the new year rolls around I’m beginning to plan for my school’s annual solo festival. I’m always looking to improve the quality of my student’s playing as well as their learning and how they learn their solo. I make practice CDs for them with their [...]
Some of my favorite posts from 2008
Yazan: Jason | 31 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: blogging
It’s been a great year of blogging for me personally, and I’m really excited to have reached the phase of development for both Contrabass Conversations and doublebassblog.org that I’m at currently. We’ve got a large daily readership (we were pushing 2000 daily page views for these sites plus Arts Addict during the spring) and a [...]
Happy New Year with Guy Tuneh
Yazan: Jason | 30 December 2008 | 29 Comments
Categories: bass, bass videos, performances
Last year, Guy Tuneh provided the double bass community a video of his excellent Rococo Variations performance to celebrate the new year. This year we’re featuring this wonderful artist performing Kol Nidrei by Max Bruch. Enjoy!
Suzuki Bass Learning Opportunities with Virginia Dixon
Yazan: Jason | 29 December 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: bass, education
Suzuki bass pioneer Virginia Dixon (I interviewed her last year for Contrabass Conversations–check it out here) is offering several opportunities during 2009 for Suzuki bass teacher training. This is an excellent opportunity to get training in a field that is still in its early stages of development. There is great demand nationwide for teachers with [...]
New Peabody Faculty-Artist in Residence Harold Robinson
Yazan: jeffweisner | 28 December 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: Uncategorized
(crossposted from PBDB) Here is the blurb from the official Peabody website: Peabody is pleased to announce the appointment of Harold Hall Robinson, principal bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra and instructor at the Curtis Institute, as Peabody Artist-Faculty in Residence. Beginning in Fall 2009, he will join current Peabody double bass faculty faculty Paul Johnson [...]
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