Zen & Music Education

This is a post from double bassist and music educator Peter Tambroni. Peter is currently a string teacher in suburban Chicago where he teaches string lessons in grades 3 – 8 and conduct the middle school concert and chamber orchestras. He also leads an Irish...

Greg Sarchet now on faculty at Chicago College of Performing Arts

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...

Audition Roundup February 2008

Here is audition information for February 2008 posted every month on doublebassblog.org by Phillip W. Serna For many more auditions, also visit http://www.afm.org/ for information on the auditions below: Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra DOUBLE BASS – Section...

Dissecting opera repertoire with John Grillo

Double bassist and classical music blogger John Grillo put out a recent post on his blog highlighting his upcoming performances of Verdi’s Rigoletto with Opera New Jersey.  John writes: I look forward to playing Rigoletto again.  This is my second time...