Furtok Double Bass Quartet No. 5

Boguslaw Furtok (a great bassist who has been featured extensively on this blog) is also a talented composer as well as performer. This video (in three short parts) is a live performance of the fifth movement of his Bass Quartet N. 5, performed here by “The...

On freelancing and auditioning

John Floeter put out a great post on his bass studio blog recently about his thoughts and observations on freelancing and auditioning. This post is quite relevant to many of my writings about the freelance business (which you can find under my Articles link).Here are...

John Floeter’s Double Bass Studio – great resource

Double bassist John Floeter (Northern Illinois University bass instructor, Grant Park Symphony section member) has really been turning his double bass studio blog into an excellent resource. In addition to offering up technique downloads for students (via...

DoubleBassGuide.com

I blogged about this site last summer, but I was again just spending some time on DoubleBassGuide.com, a great resource for players of the instrument out of Germany. The site is operated by Jonas Lohse, who also maintains a double bass blog. It has articles, a gear...

Guy Tuneh and Mischa Meyer play Rossini Duetto mvt 2 – Andante

This video features a performance of the second movement of the Rossini Duetto for Cello and Bass. Guy Tuneh was a former pupil of Professor B. Sanderling in Berlin, and he currently studies with Wolfgang Güttler in Basel. I have worked with Güttler in the past, and I...