We released a Contrabass Conversations episode this past weekend featuring the Bad Boyz of Bass (Anthony Stoops, Volkan Orhon, Paul Sharpe, and David Murray). Check out episode 71 of the podcast to hear these guys chat about the group and perform some...
We’re continuing our feature on double bassist Volkan Orhon today with this performance from KSUI’s Know the Score program. Volkan performs Francois Rabbath’s composition Poucha Dass on this video. Francois is another former Contrabass Conversations...
Many bassists here in the States are busy preparing for the upcoming audition with the Pittsburgh Symphony. If you’re interested in this position, application details and a repertoire list are available at the bottom of this post (click the ‘read the rest...
I recently found this post of Seth Godin’s through my blogging comrade Matt Wengerd. Matt recently switched his blog’s title from 104 weeks (originally named as such to chronicle his two year journey through the University of South Florida’s graduate...
National Symphony bassist and doublebassblog.org contributor Jeff Weisner is writing a series of posts documenting his upcoming recital at Peabody. All pieces for this recital were commissioned by Jeff. You can check out the first two parts of this series...
