MYA Saxophone Quartet featured on From The TopThe What’s Cookin’ Saxophone Quartet, made up of Midwest Young Artists members Amanda Peterson, Mira DeJong, Kateri Tumminello, and Joshua Plotner, was recently featured of NPR’s program From The Top. I do a lot of work...
We’re featuring something a bit unusual for this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode. Ball State University bass professor and International Society of Bassists president Hans Sturm has been featured several times on the podcast in video episodes. This...
I’m off to scenic Door County, Wisconsin tomorrow for my very enjoyable annual summer music festival. I put out a video about this festival earlier this week. It’s fun to think back on my previous seasons spent up in Wisconsin. In 2005, this blog...
Today is the two-year anniversary of my recital on the Karr-Koussevitzy bass. I had a real whirlwind of a week when doing that recital, putting on a student recital the previous day and getting packed up to head off to a chamber music festival in Door County,...
A recent article in the Chicago Tribune (May 28, 2008) reignited some long-standing concerns that I’ve had for a longtime about the massive amount of educational debt many musicians accrue during their years of training. This trend is affecting all college...
