Francois Rabbath, the revolutionary double bass pedagogue and performer, will be celebrating his 80th birthday this Saturday! In recognition of this date, Ball State University is going to reduce the price on the Art of thhe Left Hand DVD for a week to $80 (down...
Yet another great Catalin Rotaru video, this time in a studio setting: Catalin Rotaru – double bass, from the master class at the festival in Capbreton, France
More from Catalin, this time featuring the first movement of the Bottesini Concerto. I’m conducting this at present at school–very fun from the podium perspective as well:
After poking around Nuno Arrais’ Double Bass Blog (great site, by the way!), I happened upon some really great videos of double bassist Catalin Rotaru (a fellow International Society of Bassists board member and bass professor at Arizona State University)....
Congrats to bassist Esperanza Spalding for taking home the Grammy for best new artist last weekend. If you’re not familiar with her work, here’s a clip from an interview and performance on “The Second Cup Café.”
