Getting into the top bass colleges

Scott Bakshis of the Chicago Youth Symphony recently compiled a list of what the requirements for all the top bass schools are. This is a meta list derived from the requirements of Indiana University, Boston University, Rice University, Curtis, Juilliard, Eastman, and...

Lawrence Hurst Master Classes 2/21 and 2/22

Northwestern Professor DaXun Zhang Hosts Indiana University ProfessorHurstMaster ClassesIndiana University Professor Hurst is coming to Northwestern UniversitySchool of Music to give two master classes on Tuesday, February 21st5:30-7:30 at Lutkin, and on Wednesday,...

John Grillo Recital Showcase

John started playing Double Bass at the age of 11. He attended The Julliard School during high school and was a scholarship student at Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana where he studied with Lawrence Hurst. After graduating from IU, he...

Lesson Summaries and Assignments

This page is actually the first “post” ever for the blog! I used to use the blog solely to maintain a log of lesson summaries/assignments for my private students  I keep this post up for sentimental reasons.  This list is from 2005: Libertyville Studio...

Bass Blog Music Links

I’ve consolidated many of these blog pages over the years–check out my links page for all sorts of double bass goodness, and my downloads page has a lot of free resources in which you might be interested. My favorite link, of course, is the Contrabass...