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A couple of weeks ago, I put out a survey for blog readers asking them to rank what they feel are the best universities and conservatories for double bass study in the United States. This survey got quite a response, and I’ve got the final results tabulated. While I certainly wouldn’t base where I decided to go to school based purely on this survey (!), I think it’s interesting to poll the community like this and see what people’s perceptions are regarding the top places to study double bass. Also, remember that, much as I’d like to think that my readership is completely unbiased, I imagine that there are certain schools with a lot of students reading this blog, and others with significantly fewer, and I’d imagine that people would root for their school, so these results may also be slanted toward school with a high doublebassblog.org readership… or maybe not.

I’ve written many articles about this topic in the past, so you can go spelunking through the blog article archives if you’d like a more in-depth look at this topic, but I think that this list should prove to be, if nothing else, food for thought:

Top 20 Ranked U.S. Schools for Double Bass Study – 2009
doublebassblog.org reader poll

  1. The Curtis Institute
  2. Rice University
  3. Indiana University
  4. University of Washington
  5. Boston University
  6. The Juilliard School
  7. Cincinnati College-Conservatory
  8. The Colburn School
  9. Michigan State University
  10. Peabody Conservatory
  11. New England Conservatory
  12. Carnegie Mellon University
  13. Manhattan School of Music
  14. Boston Conservatory
  15. Eastman School of Music
  16. University of Iowa
  17. Arizona State University
  18. University of Southern California
  19. The New School
  20. University of North Texas

Download this list:
top ranked double bass schools 2009.pdf

I’ll expand this survey with more schools and do it again in 2010, so stay tuned!

Any thoughts on great schools not on this list? Feel free to leave a comment below.

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