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François Rabbath performs at Ball State University

Here is a short clip of bass soloist and recent Contrabass Conversations guest François Rabbath performing Le Cri during Recital Hour. This performance occurred a few days before François did the interview for Contrabass Conversations, and it is great to hear him play...

Rabbath’s Poucha Dass – video from tonibottesini

I recently found this great video online featuring a performance of bass soloist and Contrabass Conversations guest François Rabbath’s composition Poucha Dass. This is a home recording by a user named tonibottesini. Very nice playing and camera...

1000th Post for the bass blog

How quickly time flies! It feels like I just started this blog, and it is hard to wrap my head around the fact that I have pushed that ‘publish’ button one thousand times (and many, many more times than that if you count edits, rewrites, and the like). Think about...

Advice on auditioning for Juilliard from Orin O’Brien

I have several students preparing for an audition at Juilliard at the moment. Over the years I have had many students audition at this institution, and I thought that it would be valuable to relate some advice given by New York Philharmonic double bassist and...