This video features a performance of the Rossini Duetto for Cello and Bass. There is a loud buzz at the opening of the video, but keep watching–the fidelity gets better. Guy Tuneh was a former pupil of Professor B. Sanderling in Berlin, and he currently studies...
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While recording this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode featuring Michael Hovnanian, I inadvertently fumbled the Gunnelpumpers and Chicago Bass Ensemble introductions, somehow mixing the two together. To clarify, the track that I played on the show was ‘Floobah...
While poking around online looking for biographical information about Michael Hovnanian for our Contrabass Conversations interview, I stumbled upon one of the most bizarre blogs I have ever seen. The title of the blog is:Michael Hovnanian’s Fingerings are...
National Symphony Orchestra Principal Bassist Robert Oppelt just put up a new post on his website covering his approach to the bass solo from the third movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major. Here is an excerpt discussing his fingering approach for the...
