One of the most popular things ever to grace the front page of this blog (and one of the top hits on Google for double bass even after all these years) is the ten-part video series Exploring the Double Bass with Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist Andy Anderson. In...
Double bassist Nick Weldon sent me the following video of a live performance in which he describes his early years on the double bass:
I’m quite proud of my double bass student Dan Carson. He got into a bunch of the top music schools in the country, and will be attending Indiana University starting this fall. Here’s a link to a video (cross-posted from the WMYA.FM podcast) featuring Dan...
Here’s a vid of a new piece for solo double bass (in Viennese tuning, no less!) by Heinz Holliger and written for Venezuelan bassist Edicson Ruiz. Talk about a wild piece! Prelude e Fuga for Solo Doublebass in the Vienese Tuning written in 2010 for Edioson Ruiz...
This is a video of Lee Starovich (one of my longtime bass students) performing The Chicken along with trumpeter Kyle Liccoci. Both of these musicians have been involved with the Midwest Young Artists program and attend Libertyville High School, where I teach:
