Kurt Muroki, Indiana University double bass professor and upcoming Contrabass Conversations guest, is featured in this video from D’Addario about the development of the Kaplan bass strings. This is an interesting video about the development of these new strings...
LA Philharmonic bassist David Allen Moore (we recently reposted his Contrabass Conversations interview–check it out!) has a great video on Musaic, the video site created and curated by the New World Symphony (a fantastic resource, by the way). It’s really...
Chicago-based double bassist Jerry Fuller has just won the International Society of Bassists Special Recognition Award for Historically Informed Performance. Jerry and I have been friends and colleagues for many years. Jerry is quite active in the early music scene...
If you’ve followed this blog over the years, you probably noticed a precipitous decline in the number of posts since 2010. Just in case you’re wondering, I didn’t fall off the face of the planet. My work life shifted pretty radically when I started...
I’m doing a presentation this Saturday for the Illinois American String Teachers Association on apps that I use for teaching. Honestly, tech is so tightly integrated into what I do with students that it’s hard to even think of specifically what I use on a regular...
