Asked by a double bassist who just played a shaky audition, one of the faculty members listening to this player passed along this bit of wisdom: “Your audition was great….until you started to play the bass.”
Richard Davis and company will host the 15th Annual Conference for Young Bassists in Madison, Wisconsin the weekend of March 21-22, 2008. Billed as an event for double bassists from ages 0-18, this year’s workshop features clinicians Richard Davis, Virginia...
Even in a ‘classic’ art form like music, one that existed well before the advent of electricity, we performers now completely and utterly depend on the power grid for our performances. While hospitals and other such foundational services may have...
Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist Greg Sarchet joins his colleagues Andy Anderson and Steve Lester as the double bass faculty of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Greg is a former Contrabass Conversations guest (you can hear him...
Have any choice quotes you’ve heard during your studies (or perhaps….[gulp]… made yourself as a teacher)? I’ve got reams of them! Here’s a perennial favorite. I’m not going to mention who specifically I heard this from:...
