When San Diego Symphony principal bassist Jeremy Kurtz-Harris performs Double Bass Concerto No. 1 this week, it will fulfill a longtime goal and symbolize a 16-year binational friendship. The concerto ...

Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra features something unusual Monday in the spotlight: the double bass. In this case, it’s played by Mercer University Concerto Competition 2024 student winner Eion Lyons.

Consider the contrabass, a loyal servant in the orchestra. Able to play some of the lowest pitches in the orchestra, it provides depth and bolsters tonal harmonies by reinforcing the cellos, low winds ...

Gary Karr was sitting in the lobby of a San Francisco concert hall after a rare performance last year, signing copies of his CDs, when a man in his early 70s with a white goatee and beret approached ...

Classical music artist Xavier Foley will perform Wednesday, Feb. 7, in a free recital at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Foley is known for communicating his virtuosity and passion for music ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bassist Maxime Bibeau and celebrated US composer Missy Mazzoli are seated in the subterranean rehearsal studio of the Australian Chamber ...

UO/Olari Elts Ulster Hall, Belfast 7.45pm Adm free – When is the last time you heard a double bass concerto in the concert hall? Or have you ever heard one at all? Either way, there's one on offer in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Felipe Lara’s sensational Double Concerto, with Claire Chase and Esperanza Spalding, was played by the New York Philharmonic under ...

In demand as both a performer and a composer, Edgar Meyer has formed a role in the music world unlike any other. Hailed by The New Yorker as “…the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively ...

Double bassist Colin Corner was flying from Atlanta with Southwest Airlines to play a concert in Rochester. His instrument did not have a good flight. Corner’s bass is not just any ordinary instrument ...