TIJUANATIJUANA — Andrés Martín, a double bass player with the Baja California Orchestra, always wished that music would take him places. That dream is about to become a reality — literally. The Buenos ...

Our bass students study in depth the art of solo, orchestral and chamber music double bass performance. During their time at the College of Music, students focus on rich, resonant and lyrical tone ...

The Australian Chamber Orchestra has acquired a rare, 16th-century double bass from anonymous benefactors. The instrument was made by Gasparo da Salò in Brescia, Italy, in the last quarter of the 16th ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put ...

Usually, the instrument known as the double bass, or contrabass, which sits in the very last row of the string section of an orchestra, is considered an instrument that simply supplies the harmonic ...

A rare double bass, crafted from spruce and pear wood in the 16th century, but with a ''subwoofer-like quality'', is the latest addition to the Australian Chamber Orchestra's line-up of historically ...

SHE is a tall, curvy, Italian and the older she gets, the more coveted she becomes. Meet the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 400-year-old bass and the man who plucks her strings. “There’s nothing like ...

A woman who held the record for playing in the same professional orchestra for the longest amount of time, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO), has died. Jane Little, who was 87 and a renowned double ...

Bassists: Your time to shine! Monster Bass Ensemble is the large bass orchestra that features all participants (need to be able to read music) and is the central focus of the festival. As with the ...

It is hard to imagine the double bass — the lowest-pitched member of the violin family that resembles a string instrument on steroids — setting the tone for the Sufi song ‘Dama dam mast kalandar’, but ...

Minea, Concertante Music for Orchestra Lahti Symphony Orchestra Osmo Vänskä, Conductor Kalevi Aho, Composer Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra Kalevi Aho, Composer Eero Munter, Double bass Lahti ...