Dean Ferrell – Ode to Per Questa (video)

Double bassist Dean Ferrell is a performer that you’ve got to see to believe. Putting a label on what Dean does in simply impossible–the best I can do is to call his performances historically informed alternate tuning performance art. Dean did an hour-long...

Scenes from an Opera – Recitative and Aria

Boston Symphony Assistant Principal Bass Lawrence Wolfe (also a former Contrabass Conversations guest) is also an active composer. This performance (with Lawrence Wolfe performing) was recorded live at the James Library and Center for the Arts on June 15, 2009....

Jeff Bradetich plays Bottesini Elegy on Solano Bass

Here’s another video of Jeff Bradetich playing on a Rumano Solano bass (a copy of Jeff’s 1767 Italian bass), this time performing the Bottesini Elegy. Check out Jeff on Contrabass Conversations if you haven’t previously! About the bass, Jeff says:...

Scenes from an Opera – Overture

Boston Symphony Assistant Principal Bass Lawrence Wolfe (also a former Contrabass Conversations guest) is also an active composer. This performance (with Lawrence Wolfe performing) was recorded live at the James Library and Center for the Arts on June 15, 2009....

Jeff Bradetich plays a Solano bass

I love how every brief moment in the social web age is subject to capture and broadcast! I’ve seen Jeff Bradetich (Contrabass Conversations guest) noodle around on basses countless times in the past, but since every device seems to be equipped with a camera...