I had the opportunity to appear as a guest lecturer for the orchestral studies seminar class at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of the Performing Arts earlier this week, which was a lot of fun for me and hopefully a good experience for the students as...
In 2005, Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist (and Contrabass Conversations guest) Greg Sarchet organized a recital celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first known double bass recital in the United States. This 1905 double bass recital was performed by Václav Jiskra, a...
This excellent comment came in a couple of days ago on our post (anonymous commenter) from September about balancing music performance and music education. Since things move quickly here (lots of new posts and comments every day), I like to highlight these types...
Here’s a clip of the outstanding DaXun Zhang performing a song called Galloping Horses with Yang Wei. You can learn more about DaXun Zhang at www.daxunzhang.com, or listen to him perform on Contrabass Conversations #20. Related Posts: DaXun performs The...
Calgary Philharmonic bassist Matt Heller just put out a great follow-up post on the topic of practice sessions and overpracticing. Comparing practicing music to grilling steaks, Matt writes: The music needs to be prepared just well enough – medium rare,...
