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Ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to Almere! It’s
a great honour for us to
host this year’s European
Bass Convention and be
added to the distinguished
list of Paris, Berlin and
Copenhagen.
In many respects, Almere is a
unique city in the Netherlands as
well as in Europe. Europe does not
yet have that many New Towns
and it is becoming increasingly
rare for cities to witness such rapid
growth. What’s more, we live on
land that was still a sea as recently
as sixty years ago. Almere was
built on reclaimed land in a Dutch
polder, some six metres below sea
level. Its population is nearing the
200,000 mark.
Almere is a young city, both literally and figuratively. The Municipality of Almere is celebrating its
30th anniversary this year and
one-third of the population is
below the age of 25.
Almere has a lot to offer. Boasting
a coastline of almost 42 kilometres, the city offers many enjoyable spots in, on and along the
water. There are several marinas,
an exceptional number of cycling
and rollerblading routes and many
opportunities for pleasantly sheltered walking in beautiful nature
areas in the city’s woods. It is
with good reason that Almere is
referred to as the greenest city
on the water’s edge! So I highly
recommend that you take some
time to wander into town or go for
a stroll along the Weerwater just
outside Schouwburg Almere.
I would like to express my sincere
thanks to the organising team of
Bass2014. A big thank you goes
out to all bass soloists for their
unselfish participation. They
believe it is essential to share their
music and experience!
My gratitude also goes to our main
sponsor Thomastik and all other
sponsors and supporters, including the entire staff of Schouwburg
Almere and Almere City Marketing. And, last but not least, this
event could not have been possible without the dedication and
commitment of a large group of
volunteers.
I wish you all lots of fun
at the 4th European Bass
Convention!
Annemarie Jorritsma
Mayor of Almere
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Introduction
to demonstrate their art, their
knowledge and experience on
a non-profit basis. The widely
different aspects of the bass in
classical music, jazz and pop prove
that this instrument is versatile
and colourful. The bass started
out around 1600 as a counterpart
of the harpsichord in the ‘basso
continuo’, the musical foundation, just like the jazz bass is in
combination with the piano. A
melody, a bass line with figured
symbols for the intended chords,
even the notation of 400 years ago
shows resemblances to the way
jazz music is scripted. The bass
also has known historic episodes
with dazzling virtuosos and during
this week, everyone can discover
amazing aspects of the bass, from
ancient music to contemporary
repertoire.
Foto: Vincent Menzel
Dear visitors and participants
of Bass2014Almere,
Taking responsibility for organising the European Convention
and Competition for double
bass in the Netherlands, I asked
instrument builders and makers
of bass-related products if they
were willing to support our efforts.
There is a circuit of festivals and
competitions from which I knew
a number of them. The answer
was: “Of course we will come
to Holland!” The organisers of
Bass2008 Paris, Bass2010Berlin
and Bass2012Copenhagen promised to share their experience and
contacts freely with the team of
volunteers for the organisation of
Bass 2014.
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The first thing we had to do was
to find a location suited to the
logistic demands coming with the
organising of four competitions at
the same time, and a double bass
week comprising over seventy
concerts and a bass fair. Many of
them turned out to be too limited
or too expensive or both, until
we got a response from Almere
saying Yes We Can. The staff and
technicians of the Almere Theatre
were ready to help us find solutions to our problems, and the
city council was equally willing to
cooperate, which encouraged us
to persevere with our plans.
When funds are limited it is vital
to have friends who value culture
more than money, and what
makes this bass week unique is
that all participants are ready
This program should contribute
to further developing and filling in
blank spots in the knowledge of
repertory and technique. Where
violin and violoncello have evolved
to a certain standard, this is less
so in the case of the bass, which
means that there is new territory
to explore and pioneers from
many countries are gathering here
to present their own compositions.
More and more bass players feel
irresistibly attracted to works of
the great composers, studying and
performing their master pieces
they expand their technical and
musical abilities. Musical master
pieces are appreciated as a universal language that surpasses all
boundaries of time and location,
enabling us to play almost anywhere in the world with musicians
we have never met before. Anyone
who has formed friendships with
others on this basis knows how
precious this experience is.
Hans Roelofsen
President Bass2014Almere
Contents
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Bass Europe
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Artists and Jury Members
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Accompanists
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Featured Artists
31
Competitions
32
Venues
34
Transposing your favorite
music for the bass
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Progam
The Convention Magazine
Published by BassEurope, August 2014
Edited by Rudolf Senn & Hans Roelofsen
Graphic design: Anna van Lingen
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Bass Europe
The first European Bass Convention in Paris in 2008 was
announced as follows: A very big
convention for bass players from
all over the world will be held for
the first time in Paris at the Conservatoire National Superieur .
This meeting will include renowned
artists representing all styles:
classical, contemporary classical,
avant-garde and jazz – publishers
and producers, instrument makers
and all you can imagine that exists
for and about the double bass.
Players will do master-classes,
show-cases, clinics and recital
performances. A competition of
composition for double bass is
organized, a player’s competition
with four categories recital, orchestra, Jazz, contemporary music, and
a mini-bass competition. Our wish
is to produce encounters and discoveries, to improve learning and
teaching methods, to emphasize
technical and expressive progress,
and to create exchanges and new
links.
The convention in Berlin in 2010
announced: After the success of
BASS 2008 in Paris the idea to
continue the project took shape.
Every two years there should
be an international double bass
congress in a different European
city for double bass professionals,
artists and friends to interact and
mingle. Serious steps were made
to professionalise the website.
The third convention in Copenhagen followed along the same
lines. The founding of BassEurope
took place in a general assembly
on the 18th of August. The aim of
the organisation was described
as: To strengthen and inspire the
development of bass playing and
its network of performers, professionals, amateurs, professors,
students, educational institutions,
bass makers and manufacturers
of accessories. - To propagate the
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knowledge of bass music, its significance and artistic expressions
to a larger public. - To facilitate the
biennal European bass conventions
in collaboration with the local artistic director and team of volunteers
as a very intense, dynamic and
unique learning space. - To back up
national or regional bass clubs in
their work.
In the USA the International
Society of Bassists was founded
by Gary Karr in 1967. On the ISB
website we read: With some 3,000
members in over 40 countries, the
ISB is an organization for those
who teach, study, play, repair, build
and enjoy the double bass. The
ISB is a forum for communication
among bassists throughout the
world and across a wide variety of
musical styles. Every two years the
ISB holds an international convention and double bass competition,
a composition contest, and now, a
makers competition. If you love the
double bass, become a member of
the International Society of Bassists today!
Clearly the USA have the edge on
us as far as organising conventions
is concerned with more than 40
years of experience.
Dave Holland, a famous jazz bass
player say about the last ISB
convention in Rochester: The 2013
ISB convention was a truly inspiring experience. The masterclasses
that I attended were really informative and I heard some wonderful
bass players who are doing things
that were almost inconceivable
50 years ago. The opportunity for
us all to come together and share
our experiences is fantastic for
the bass community and for the
advancement of the instrument. On
a personal level, it gave me a real
creative boost and has set some
new standards for me to aspire to.”
John Patitucci a famous bass
guitar and double bass player:
It has been over 20 years since I
played at my first ISB conventionand like all bassists, I truly appreciate the brother and sisterhood of
Bass! Because we look through
all music from the ground up, we
share a perspective of giving to the
music and serving the whole so
the music can soar. I have enjoyed
the experience at conventions of
sharing, learning, being inspired,
humbled and driven back to the
woodshed, by ALL kinds of Bass
playing. I enjoy the magazine and
like to learn about different ways
to approach playing, hearing about
new pieces, books and recordings.
I have also enjoyed many articles
about my Bass heroes. God bless
you all and I hope to see you soon
at the next Bass Hang!
The ISB can serve as a model to
help us overcome internal European differences of opinion. Some
European countries have a high
percentage of Eurosceptics, but
for musicians this attitude would
be inappropriate. We would not
exclude Russian music from the
repertory, now that political tension between the EU and Russia
is rising. We appreciate Russian
literature and music as part of a
common European heritage and
consider the undemocratic developments there as a big mistake.
We have no doubt that BassEurope
can only be a success when all
participants share a pro European
spirit and embrace its cultural
heritage.
We are proud to have former BassEurope presidents Thierry Barbé,
Stephan Petzold, Jimmi Pedersen,
and Kristin Korb, president of
the ISB in our midst as active
participants and we are happy
to happy have so many excellent
professionals are joining us in
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Artists and Jury Members
Thierry Barbé
France
Thierry Barbé is principal bass in
the Paris National Opera Orchestra
and double bass professor at the
National Superior Conservatory
of Music in Paris, and at the CRR
in St-Maur. Barbé likes to perform
recitals with piano, plays all types
of expressive music. He has played
and featured in master classes
in about 20 countries. He has
been teaching double bass since
1982, notably at the Saint Maur
Conservatoire near Paris, where
he instructs advanced students
from all over the world. Barbé has
experimented with numerous technical approaches to the double
bass (French and German bows,
regulations adapted to morphologies - he likes to integrate all of
them. Barbé has been president
of the French Bass Society president (ABCDF) since 2001. He is
a member of the ISB board, and
organized with Riccardo Del Fra
the successful international bass
convention in Paris in 2008.
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Hagai Bilitzky
Israel
Hagai Bilitzky specializes in presenting Middle Eastern music to
western musicians, and teaches at
the Eastern Music department of
the Jerusalem Academy of Music
and the JMAD conservatory’s Jazz
department. He performs and
lectures regularly at international
bass conventions and teaches
courses in Israel and abroad.
The new technical approach Hagai
devised for playing the special elements of Middle Eastern music on
the double-bass makes it possible to bring the double-bass into
prominence as a solo instrument
in Middle Eastern and classical
Arabic music and is taught by him
in workshops for bass players and
others around the world. Hagai is a
regular member of Algerian pianist
Maurice el-Madioni’s trio, Algerian
music master Nino Biton’s orchestra, Palestinian singer Amal
Murkus’ group and Ladino vocalist
Yasmin Levy.
Alberto Bocini
Italy
Alberto Bocini is professor at
the Haute Ecole de Musique
de Geneve/HEM. Principal
Double Bass player for 5 years
in the Orchestra Nazionale
dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia
(Rome) and for 15 years dell’
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino (dir. Zubin Metha), he
appears in the same role with
the Orchestra of the Teatro alla
Scala (Milan), London Symphony
Orchestra (London), the Solisti
Veneti and others. As a soloist he has recorded for Denon,
Stradivarius, Velut Luna and NBB
records. Apart from his “classical”
activities, he dedicates himself
to the exploration of new frontiers for his instrument, specially
in typically “crossover” areas of
music: with the double basses
quartet “the Bass Gang”, revisiting in a classical chamber music
form songs by the famous progressive band “Genesis”, reviving
the Italian Opera repertoire (Verdi,
Rossini, Puccini, Leoncavallo)
under the most varied influences
(jazz, rock, bossanova...); with
pieces of his own composition.
Zbigniew Borowicz
Canada
Zbigniew Borowicz (Mr.Zbig) is a
student of L. Streicher, G. Karr, E.
Levinson and E.A. Kolosov from
the Moscow Conservatory. He
won 1st prize at the F. Gregora
International Double Bass
Competition in Czechoslovakia
(1984). He was the only double bassist to win the Montreal
Competition “Debut” (1987).
Borowicz was the first classical double bassist to record in
the Canadian music industry. He
has recorded numerous solo CDs
and DVDs. He has also appeared
in recitals in the Polish and
Canadian radios. He was a soloist with 19 symphony and chamber orchestras (among them:
Kingston Symphony, I Musici
de Montréal, Polish Chamber
Orchestra). Mr.Zbig gave recitals
on four continents (Japon, Brasil,
USA, Germany). He is a permanent, full-time double bass teacher
at the College of Ste-Foy & Laval
University (Québec, Canada).
YouTube channel: bassaddictify
Leon Bosch
United Kingdom
Gjorgji Cincievski
Macedonia
The South African-born virtuoso
double bassist Leon Bosch is one
of today’s most versatile and imaginative artists. His wide-ranging
interests have taken him in many
directions, all of which have led
to a unique career and helped to
establish his international reputation as an outstanding musician.
In addition to a high-profile
orchestral life – he is currently
principal double bass of the
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
– he is sought after as a chamber musician, recitalist, concerto
soloist, teacher and programmer.
In addition he has built up a varied portfolio of commissions and
world premieres and is developing
a recording catalogue of an unusually diverse repertoire.
Born in Skopje, Macedonia, Gjorgji
finished his studies with full honours in the class of Prof.Jiri Hudec,
at the RNCM (UK), winning the
coveted Professional Performance
Diploma with distinction, later
becoming professor Hudec’s
assistant. He performed at Japan’s
Pacific Music Festival and took
part in some other major festivals,
such as the Salzburg Festspiele,
Vienna Modern, Raydale,
Montepulciano and played with
some of Europe’s leading orchestras. Besides being active as a
solo performer, Gjorgji has continued his educational work, giving
numerous masterclasses in the
UK, Latvia, Cuba, Italy, Malta and
France. Very noticeable is his interest in composition and arranging
and his constant quest of finding
new pieces to be transcribed and
performed on the double bass.
His successful transcription of
J.S.Bach “Goldberg Variation” is
published by Hoffmeister editions.
Since 2010, Gjorgji has been the
principal double bass of the Malta
Philharmonic Orchestra.
www.cincievski.com
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Wayne Darling
United States
Silvio Dalla Torre
Germany
Silvio Dalla Torre worked for 20
years as a principal bassist for
opera and symphony orchestras
in Germany, Switzerland, and
Belgium. He taught as a visiting
instructor at the Musik Hochschule
in Detmold, and performed with
several chamber music ensembles which he founded. Since 2002
Dalla Torre has been professor
of double bass at the Hochschule
für Musik und Theater in Rostock.
Since 2003 Dalla Torre came to
learn the four finger system from
professor Hans Roelofsen. Silvio
played a major role in researching
and reconstructing the Bassetto, a
small bass tuned in fifths. In 2004
Silvio founded Sidato Verlag, publishing methodical works and solo
pieces for the bass. In 2005 he premiered the world’s first cd featuring the Bassetto. Since 2007 Dalla
Torre has been musical director
of the International Double Bass
Week held every year in March at
Kloster Michaelstein. Dalla Torre’s
systematic research of playing
techniques explaining the adventages of the ‘New Dutch School’
and François Rabbath is published
on his website:
http://silviodallatorre.com
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A native of Iowa (USA), Wayne
performed with famous artists
including Bob Brookmeyer, Art
Farmer, Dexter Gordon, Friedrich
Gulda, Joe Henderson. Woody
Herman, Marc Johnson, Arni
Egillson, Niels-Henning Ørsted
Pedersen, Jim Pepper, Kenny
Wheeler and many others. In the
seventies he relocated to Austria
to perform with the ORF Big Band
and became professor for double bass at the University Music
School in Graz (now professor
emeritus). Furthermore he continues to perform with a variety
of artists and tours/records with
projects under his own name.
Wayne is active in supporting
Double Bass meetings, workshops,
and competitions.
Selected Discography: Wayne
Darling presents The Art Of The
Bass, Vol. 1&2; Wayne Darling,
Rain Cave; Friedrich Gulda,
The Complete Musician; Joe
Henderson, Barcelona; Woody
Herman, Giant Steps (Grammy
Award); Jim Pepper, Polar Bear
Stomp. Wayne Darling is an
endorsing artist for the Thomastik
Infeld String Company.
David Desimpelaere
Belgium
David studied at the Royal
Brussels Conservatory of Music
with Prof. Frank Coppieters
(double bass), Etienne Siebens
(Chamber music) and with prof
Rinat Ibragimov at the Londen
Guildhall School of Music and
Drama. In November 2013,
being a laureate of the Brussels
Conservatory, David was awarded
the ‘Prix Mathilde E. Horlait
Dapsens’. David won several prizes
in international solo double bass
competitions. He was third prize
winner in the IV International
Serge Koussevitzky Double Bass
Competition held in St. Petersburg
in December 2011. He won first
prize in the International Double
Bass Convention Competition (junior category) Brno 2011. In June
2013, David was finalist in the solo
competition of the International
Society of Bassists held in
Rochester, New York. Together
with his brother Erik, he released
his first CD ‘Reflections on a Song’.
Since 2014 David holds the position of principle double bass of the
Brussels Philharmonic.
Artists and Jury Members
Jean-Claude Delache
France
French bassist Jean-Claude
Delache received his first Prize
from the Conservatoire Supérieur
de Paris with G.Logerot. He cofounded ‘Duo i Conte i Basso’
with actress Michèle Delache.
Performing at Bass2012
Copenhagen and the Boston Bass
Bash, this duo also appeared in
French festivals: Mardis Graves,
Traces Contemporaines, Ravensar
and featured in the ISB calendar 2012. They released a selfproduced dvd & cd and commissioned several new works. They
appeared on TLT-TV and radio
broadcasts of Radio France. The
Courrier Picard calls Mr. Delache
“an accomplished virtuoso” and
the Dépêche du Midi “he is making
the bass sing”. He was a founding member of the Orchestre de
Paris and also a member of the
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse.
As a chamber musician, he cofounded the quintet Quinte et
Sens and the Duo i Conte i Basso,
performing a.o. works of F.Proto,
J.Deak, J. Léandre, G.Trout. Mr.
Delache was a bass professor at
the Conservatoire de Toulouse.
Aykut Dursen
Belgium
Aykut Dursen studied at Ankara
State Conservatory with Tahir
Sumer. In Geneva he studied with
professor Franco Petracchi, in
Vienna with professor Heinrich
Schneikart,in Brussels with professor Roland Lafosse and in Paris
with Francois Rabbath. He currently holds the position of principle bass of the Flemish Opera
Antwerpen/Gent. Aykut is also
an active arranger and composer.
Playing mandolin, saz and tanbur,
he is a succesful arranger of musical cross overs.
Elias
Netherlands
Algerian born Elias has been living in Amsterdam for quite some
years now. Completely self-taught
on the double bass, he has a good
singing voice and performs his
repetory of standards, with foot
operated percussion almost daily
on the streets and squares of
Amsterdam. He has a large goup
of fans and sometimes appears
at official concerts a.o. with the
Netherlands Wind Ensemble.
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Guiseppe Ettorre
Italy
Gottfried Engels
Germany
Gottfried Engels studied double
bass with professor Paul Breuer
at the Musikhochschule (Music
University) Köln and conducting with David de Villiers at the
Folkwang Universität in Essen.
He is a member of the Düsseldorf
Symphony, professor of double
bass at the Musik Hochschule in
Köln and music director of the
Hofgarten Orchester Bonn. He regularly played in chamber orchestras like the German Bach Soloists
and other ancient music orchestras. As a soloist he appeared
regularly in recitals and concerts. He gave master classes and
courses for bass all over the word.
Engels has been invited to conduct
several orchestras in Venezuela,
Nicaragua, Brazil, Romania, Chile,
Uruguay and Germany. He has a
special interest in working with
youth orchestras, inspired by the
ideals of El Sistema, an education program for musicians in
Venezuela, publicly founded in
1975 by economist and musician
Josef Antonio Abreu.
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First double bass soloist at
the Orchestra of La Scala
Philharmonic, Guiseppe Ettorre
is an active soloist and chamber
musician. He studied with professor Leonello Godoli and professor
Franco Petracchi. Winner of the
“Bottesini” competition in Parma
in 1989 he was also winner of the
ARD competition of Bavaria in
1991. He recorded works of Bach,
Rossini, Bottesini, Berio, Henze
and Piazzolla on two solo albums
for the label NBB Records. He
plays his own compositions, showing his interest in modern musical forms from jazz to new age,
working with Bobby McFerrin and
Stefano Bollani. The CD “Sextet”
(Decam-Tdd/Edel) contains sixteen
of his own compositions for solo
double bass, ranging from bass
solo to an unusual formation of
3 double basses, harp, piano and
percussion. In the educational field
he is active giving master classes
in Italy and abroad. He plays an
instrument made by Guardian
Marcucci (1890)
Robert Franenberg
Netherlands
Robert Franenberg was born in
Los Angeles, California. In 1981
he received a Bachelor of Music
degree from the California State
University, Northridge. His teachers were Nat Gangursky, Abe
Luboff, Arni Egilsson and Bruce
Bransby. From 1982-1984 he studied with Anthony Woodrow at
the Sweelinck Conservatorium,
Amsterdam. Since 1984 Robert
is a member of the Rotterdam
Philharmonic Orchestra, joining
the Orchestra of the 18th Century
in 1988 also playing double bass
and violone in the orchestra of
the Netherlands Bach Society. He
has recorded and toured with the
Paul McCreesh’ Gabrieli Consort
and Gustav Leonhardt’s Consort.
In addition, he has toured with
the Netherlands Wind Ensemble,
the Bach Collegium Japan, The
English Concert and the Dunedin
Consort. Robert presented lecture/recitals on the subject of the
historic Viennese tuning at Den
Haag, Rotterdam and Amsterdam
conservatories, playing his 18th
Century Viennese double bass.
Artists and Jury Members
Simón García
Spain
Bassist and composer, Simón
García writes mostly music
for double bass. His compositions have been played in Spain,
Mexico, Austria, Germany, Japan,
Italy, USA, Venezuela, Canada,
the UK, Uruguay, Costa Rica and
Denmark by many ensembles like
The Bass Gang, Bass Instinct, Il
Quintetto, Bassiona Amorosa,
The Bassmonsters, Contrabajos
de Baja California, Chicago Bass
Ensemble, Basstards, Barry
Gones Bass Quartet, Barcelona
Bass Meeting Quartet and bass
soloists like David Heyes, Ben
Groenevelt, Ernst Weissensteiner,
Diego Zecharies, Thomas Martin,
Dan Styffe, Alberto Boccini,
Barry Green, Kristin Korb, Andrés
Martín, Jeremy Kurtz, Milton
Masciadri and his fellow composer Teppo Hauta-aho. Recital
Music wrote “Simon Garcia’s
music is characterised by a rhythmic momentum allied to lively and
evocative melodic material, often
inspired by his native Spain and
the popular styles and idioms of
the 21st-century. Simon Garcia is a
new and exciting voice in today’s
bass world.”
Ernst Glerum
Netherlands
Ernst Glerum studied classical double bass at the Sweelinck
Conservatory of Amsterdam.
During his studies he joined contemporary music ensembles like
the ASKO Ensemble and improvising music ensembles with
jazz musicians like Curtis Clark,
Hans Dulfer, JC Tans and Theo
Loevendie.
With the Amsterdam String Trio
and the Instant Composers Pool
he played on many international
stages. Often teaming with percussionist Han Bennink he performed
with international artists such as
Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Uri Caine
and many others. Ernst is also an
active composer and arranger,
starting his own recording label
“Favorite” in 2004. Ernst joined
the jazz faculty of the Amsterdam
Conservatoire. In 2009 Ernst was
awarded the prestigious Boy Edgar
Prize.
Recently Ernst played at the
North Sea Jazz Festival in July
with renowned saxophone player
Benjamin Herman featuring Daniel
von Piekart and in August in The
Concertgebouw Summerconcerts
and Jazz Festival Haarlem.
www.ernstglerum.nl
Barry Green
United States
Barry Green, a native Californian,
served as principal bassist of
the Cincinnati Symphony for 28
years, and more recently the
California Symphony and Sun
Valley, Idaho Summer Symphony.
As former executive director of the
International Society of Bassists,
he directed the Young Bassist
program for the San Francisco
Symphony Education Department
and currently at the University
of California Santa Cruz. Green
recently moved to San Diego. He
is directing an innovative concert series on themes of musical
inspiration called: “Bridging Gaps
One Music, One World”, including
a new production called “Anna’s
Way -The Tao of Artistry” for bass,
piano percussion and narratoractor. Green is author of three
books dealing with the philosophy of music, the mind, body and
spirit: The Inner Game of Music
(Doubleday, 1986), The Mastery
of Music, Ten Pathways to True
Artistry (Broadway/Doubleday
2003) and Bringing Music to Life!
(GIA, 2009). Green has also written 3 bass books and produced
many cd’s.
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Christine Hoock
Germany
Petru Iuga
Romania
Christine Hoock is an internationally active double bass soloist and
chamber musician. She studied
with professor Günter Klaus in
Frankfurt and and Franco Petracchi
in Geneva. A versatile virtuoso,
Christine Hoock can be heard in
the most varied constellations in
classical music, world music and
jazz. This is also reflected in her
highly varied discography. Her
artistic partners include Barbara
Bonney, Alessandro Taverna,
Lukas Hagen, Quadro Nuevo,
Enrico Bronzi and John Goldsby.
Christine Hoock’s guest appearances have included those at the
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival,
the Lucerne Festival, the Musik
Triennale Köln and the Berlin and
Salzburg Festivals. Concert tours
have taken her all around the
world. Christine Hoock is professor
of double bass at the Mozarteum
University Salzburg. She gives
master classes at international
academies and festivals worldwide and is frequently invited as a
juror in international competitions.
www.christinehoock.de
Petru Iuga has already established
himself as one of the foremost
double bass players of his generation. Having received his first training from professor Ioan Cheptea
he was selected by Yehudi
Menuhin for the International
Menuhin Music Academy in
Gstaad (Switzerland). After further training at the Hochschule
der Künste, Bern, under professor Bela Szedlak and at the
Conservatoire National Superieur
de Musique in Paris under professor J.P.Celea, he became a member of the Ensemble Orchestral de
Paris, and principal double bass in
the Munich Chamber Orchestra.
He currently holds a professorship
at the University of Music and Arts
in Mannheim, Germany. He won
numerous prizes at international
competitions a.o. the first prize
at the International Double Bass
Competition in Markneukirchen Germany in 1999. He has appeared
as soloist with orchestras in several European countries. Petru Iuga
recorded a cd with the Carmina
Quartet.
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Pawel Jablczynski
Poland
Paweł Jabłczynski graduated at
the Music Academy in Wrocław in
the double bass class of professor
Tadeusz Górny, in 2006 becoming his assistant in the same year
obtaining the position of principal double bass with the Wrocław
Philharmony. In January 2012
he attained his PhD degree with
his thesis on K. Lipinski’s Music
Academy in Wrocław. He continued his master studies with professors Rinat Ibragimov, Ruslan
Lutsyk and David Sinclair at the
Hochschule der Künste in Bern.
He was finalist in several competitions: A.B. Ciechanski National
Double Bass Competition in
Poznan (2nd Prize), National
Double Bass Competition in Łódz
(1st Prize) and the Academic
Competition for Strings Wrocław
(2nd Prize). He plays an E. Wilfer
‘Prague’ model double bass.
Artists and Jury Members
Jos Machtel
Netherlands
Kristin Korb
USA
Bassist/vocalist Kristin Korb tours
internationally as a performer,
clinician and guest artist with
numerous jazz ensembles. While
studying privately with jazz bass
icon Ray Brown, he arranged for
her first recording with his trio,
Introducing Kristin Korb, on Telarc
Records. Her latest album, “What’s
Your Story” features her innovative arrangements of jazz standards. Kristin has taught at the
University of Southern California
where she was coordinator of
vocal jazz studies, Azuza Pacific
University, Grossmont Community
College and was Director of Jazz
Studies at Central Washington
University. As President of the
International Society of Bassists,
Korb was the artistic director
for the 2013 ISB Convention in
Rochester, NY (Eastman School
of Music). Kristin tours across the
world and has performed with jazz
artists such as Llew Matthews,
Kim Richmond, Pete Christlieb,
Jeff Hamilton, Alex Riel and Jan
Lundgren.
www.kristinkorb.com
Jos Machtel started his musical
career as a trumpet player and
switched to the Double Bass a the
age of 20. He is one of the most
frequently asked jazz bass players since 1990 and has played
with the Metropole Orchestra
and famous jazz musicians like
Benjamin Herman, Toon Roos, to
name a few. Since 2000 he plays
in the Brussels Jazz Orchestra.
He teaches jazz bass at the Luca
School of Arts music department
at the university of in Leuven,
Belgium Since 2010 he is taking masterclasses with Francois
Rabbath.
Wiro Mahieu
Netherlands
Wiro Mahieu has been playing
the bass guitar since age thirteen,
starting to play the double bass as
well four years later. He studied
with Henk Haverhoek at the ArtEZ
University of the Arts, obtaining
his degree in 1990. He continued
his studies, taking lessons a.o.
from Ray Brown, Eddie Gomez
and Miroslav Vitous. He was winner of the Soloist Prize during the
NOS Jazz Competition in 1988
and the prestigious Wessel Ilkcken
Jazz Award in 1996. In 1997 Wiro
founded his Low Motion Trio making international tours and appearing in live radio and tv shows and
festivals like the North Sea Jazz
Festival. Since 2004 Wiro has been
a member of the Paul Kemenade
Quintet frequently appearing
in the Netherlands and abroad.
Besides two double bass feature
cd’s ‘Song’ 1998 and ‘Pays Bas’
2000 with his Low Motion Trio, he
recorded 26 cd’s in variuous formations. Wiro is professor of jazz
bass at the ArtEZ University of the
Arts. www.wiromahieu.com
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Szymon Marciniak
Poland
Hans Mantel
Netherlands
Hans Mantel got his master of
music degree at the jazz department of the Royal Conservatory
of The Hague and continued his
studies taking lessons from bass
legend Ray Brown. He performed
with, lectured on, interviewed and
presented some of the greatest
names in Jazz: George Benson,
John Scofield, Art Blakey, George
Duke, Wynton Marsalis to name a
few. Mantel produced radio shows
and television programs for several Dutch public broadcasting
stations and teaches and lectures
at the universities of Utrecht and
Rotterdam and the Amsterdam
Conservatory. Holding a masters degree in musicology at the
University of Utrecht, he is one of
the rare jazz musicians who successfully combine musical performance and teaching philosophy
of music.
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Szymon Marciniak is recognized
as one of major young masters of
his instrument. Through his musical approach and lively interpretations he constantly receives
acclaim and enthusiastic reactions from listeners and critics
alike. His debut, a double solo CD
with Sonatas and Miniatures by
Adolf Mišek (1875-1955), released
in 2012 has been warmly received
by the international press (reviews
at Fanfare or The Strad a.o.). In
June 2013 Szymon gave his successful debut recital at the ISB
Convention in Rochester NY. In
March 2014 he presented a recital
program at the TCU Bass Festival
in Texas. Szymon was principal
bass of the Residential Orchestra
The Hague from 2007-2013. He frequently serves as a guest principal
bassist for major orchestras and
ensembles around Europe and is
a member of the New European
Ensemble. In Autumn 2013 he
joined The Bass Monsters, an
international bass quartet performing classics of rock music.
Contemporary composers Jürg
Baur and Chiel Meijering dedicated their works for double bass
to Szymon.
David Murray
Canada
David Murray has an international reputation as a solo bassist and teacher. He is currently
professor of double bass at
Butler University in Indianapolis.
He has been a member of the
Dallas Chamber Orchestra and
also toured twice with the Irish
Chamber Orchestra. David’s first
private teacher was bass virtuoso
Gary Karr and he also studied with
Stuart Sankey. At Aspen, he won
the concerto competition and in
1988 the International Society of
Bassists Solo Competition. David
has made solo appearances,
both in recital and with orchestra
and has given clinics and master classes throughout the United
States, his native Canada, in South
Korea, Brazil, Israel, Scotland,
France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark,
Germany, and Holland. He has performed at several summer chamber music festivals. In June, 2001,
David hosted the ISB convention
at Butler University for 800 bassists from 27 countries and is now a
former president of the ISB. He has
recorded three solo CD’s.
Artists and Jury Members
Giancarlo Pavan
Italy
Vassilis Papavasiliou
Greece
Vassilis Papavassiliou, a leading
greek artist, is a double bass soloist. Very active and innovative, he
is active in classical, contemporary
and experimental music.
New repertory and innovative
ideas are central in his artistic
interests and he is the dedicatee of
several new compositions. In 1998
he performed the world-premiere
recording of Skalkotas’s double
bass concerto for the BIS label,
receiving world-wide enthusiastic acclaim. Vassilis Papavassiliou
holds the position of the principal bass in the Greek National
Opera in Athens and teaches in
various master classes for double bass around Europe and USA.
He is a founding member of the
International Classical Music
Festival of the Cyclades and is
a principal tutor at the Summer
Academy of the Cyclades Festival.
He is the editor of a series of Greek
works for solo double bass published by Orpheus editions.
Giancarlo Pavan, professor at the
Conservatoire of Cuneo, Adria and
Trento, is one of the most distinguished Italian musicians on the
jazz and classical musical scene.
Side man for important names
of the Italian jazz scene from the
1980’s like Pietro Tonolo, Giorgio
Gaslini, Massimo Urbani, Enrico
Rava, Enrico Pieranunzi, Stefano
Bollani, Franco d’Andrea and
many others, he has been frequently asked for concerts and
tours alongside musicians of international renown. He has played
with Chet Baker, Kenny Drew, Art
Farmer, Dave Schnitter, Ron Blake,
John Abercrombie, John Taylor,
Tony Scott, Paul Bley, with whom
recorded as a trio, Astor Piazzolla,
Richard Galliano. He is also a international specialist in early music,
conductor, arranger and composer.
He has appeared at the famous
stages of the world, participating in events and important festivals wordlwide, recording more
than 80 titles for major labels. He
worked from 1993 to 2000 in Fabio
Biondi’s baroque orchestra Europa
Galante and from 25 years with I
Sonatori della Goia.
Jimmi Roger Pedersen
Denmark
J.R. Pedersen studied double bass with Niels-Henning
Ørsted Pedersen (NHØP) at the
Rhythmic Music Conservatory in
Copenhagen, Denmark. Jimmi
toured with artists such as Horace
Parlan, Benny Bailey, Al Grey and
Lee Konitz. He has 100+ records
to his credit including two solo
bass albums. Jimmi was nominated as best solo instrumentalist
in the 2009 JPF Music Awards in
Nashville.
Over the years JRP has developed
a technique based on a fluent
mobile left hand moving accordingly to the rhythm using 4 fingers when needed, and a right
hand continuously using 3 fingers
pizz. Since 2013 JRP is performing every day at his own place
‘KaffeKontra’ in Copenhagen. JRP
is chairman of the Danish Bass
Society, former president of BASS
EUROPE and artistic director of
the European bass convention
BASS2012 COPENHAGEN. Jimmi
runs the company Doublebass.
dk that mainly publishes music
and technical material for the Bass
Academy of Denmark.
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Stephan Petzold
Germany
Aristoteles Potamianos
Netherlands
Stephan Petzold studied double
bass from 1979-84 with Heinz Zimmer at the Hanns Eisler School of
Music and with Lev Rakow at the
Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. In 1981
he was employed as a trainee at
the Staatskapelle Berlin and two
years later as principal double
bass player at the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. In 1987 Petzold
was appointed to the Hanns Eisler
School as a Professer. Many of his
students have been employed by
well-known orchestras. Moreover
he had teaching appointments
with various youth orchestras. He
is an active member of several
double bass societies and was
the artistic director of BASS2010
in Berlin. He played as a soloist
in productions for the WDR, rbb
and Radio Moscow. As a chamber
musician he traveled with various
ensembles to cultural metropolises in Asia, America and Europe.
Since 1997 he has been busy with
the optimisation of strings and
instruments in collaboration with
innovative string manufactures. He
plays basses from Vincenzo Luccarini and William Gilkes.
Aristoteles Potamianos studied at the Hellenic Conservatoire
of Athens. After having master
classes and private lessons with
J.M. Rollez, Thomas Martin and
Jorma Katrama he joined the
class of professor Hans Roelofsen
at the Rotterdam Conservatoire.
After completing his graduation in
Rotterdam he successfully auditioned for the position of principle
bass of the Arnhem Philharmonic
(Gelders Orkest) in 1998. Apart
from his experience in Arnhem
he also played in the Athens
State Orchestra and Athens Radio
Symphony, and most orchestras
in the Netherlands, including the
Netherlands Philharmonic, the
Rotterdam Philharmonic and the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
He also partiocipated in musical
projects of the Viennese chamber
orchestra ‘The Spirit of Europe’.
He has played in many chamber
music projects in the Netherlands,
as well as at the festival “Grazer
Frühling” May 1998 where he performed Schubert’s Trout quintet
with Paul Badura Skoda.
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Giacomo Piermatti
Italy
Giacomo Piermatti studied double bass with Daniele Roccato
and Stefano Scodanibbio. In
2011 he obtained his MA from
the Conservatory of Perugia with
distinction. He is a member of
‘Ludus Gravis’, a unique ensemble of only double basses devoted
to the performance of contemporary music. He has taken part in
numerous international festivals
such as ‘Musica D’Hoy’ (Madrid),
‘Rassegna di Nuova Musica
(Macerata), ‘Angelica’ (Bologna),
‘Music of Changes’ (Klaipeda),
‘Gaida’ (Vilnius), ‘Imago Dei’
(Krems), ‘La Biennale’ (Venice). In
2013 he played with the Lucerne
Festival Academy conducted
among others by Pablo HerasCasado and David Robertson. He
has been active in the experimental music scene and has taken part
in improvisations, led among others by Giancarlo Schiaffini, Julio
Estrada, Vinko Globokar and Butch
Morris. He recorded for Wergo.
Artists and Jury Members
Alexandre Ritter
Brazil
Morten Ramsbol
Danmark
Danish bass player Morten
Ramsbøl, is one of the most
wanted Scandinavian jazz bass
players on the scene. His warm
and rich tone on the instrument
embraces the finest qualities
of the “nordic bass sound”, yet
with a deep love for the punchy
hardswinging American bass tradition. Since 1993, Morten has
been professionally involved
as a bass player in numerous
bands and groups, live and / or
recording projects throughout
Scandinavia, Northern Europe,
The Faraoe Islands and Iceland.
During the past years, Morten’s
touring schedule has also brought
him overseas and throughout
Europe with prolific artists such
as Sinne Eeg, Kurt Elling, Jeff Tain
Watts, Cæcilie Norby, Warren
Wolf, the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra,
Dena Derose and Claire Martin. He
is professor of jazz double bass
at the University of Music and
Performing Arts in Graz, Austria
since October 1, 2013.
Alexandre Ritter has been on the
faculty of the Universidade Federal
do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre
Brazil, since 2000. He obtained
a Doctor of Musical Arts and a
Bachelor of Music degree at the
University of Georgia in the USA,
and pursued his master studies at
the University of British Columbia
in Canada. Alexandre is a recipient of scholarships for programs
such as the Academia Musicale
Chiggiana, receiving a Diploma
di Mérito, in Siena, Italy, and for
the Banff Orchestral Program in
Canada. Alexandre’s experience
as an orchestral player includes
concerts with ensembles in
North and South Americas; the
Savannah, Charleston, Greenville,
and Augusta Symphonies as well
as the Porto Alegre and Paraná
Symphony Orchestras in Brazil.
Hans Roelofsen
Netherlands
Hans Roelofsen graduated
cum laude at the Amsterdam
Conservatory and continued
his studies with cellist Anner
Bijlsma and bass soloist Gary
Karr in Hartford Conn. U.S. In
1981 he was the first winner of
the Netherlands Music Prize, the
highest distinction to be given
to a Dutch musician. As a soloist he performed with major
orchestras in the Netherlands
and abroad and played chamber
music with famous musicians like
Yehudi Menuhin, Bella Davidovich,
Menahem Pressler, Maria Joâo
Peres, and the Borodin, Prazak,
Leipzig and Vilnius Quartets. In
1984 he was appointed professor
at the Rotterdam Conservatory
and in 1994 professor at ArtEZ
University of the Arts. His pupils
became pricipal bass in major
orchestras or professors abroad.
As a soloist he toured throughout
Europe and the US. He organised
300 concerts as artistic director of
the Tindal Chamber Music Society
and for his contribution to the arts
he was distinguished as Knight in
the Order of Oranje Nassau.
He contributed over 100 titles to
the bass repertory and several
solo and chamber music cd’s.
www.tindal.nl
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Ferdinando Romano
Italy
Marc van Rooij
Netherlands
Marc van Rooij studied both bass
guitar and double bass jazz&pop
music and classical double bass
with professor Roelofsen at the
Rotterdam Conservatory. As a
jazz bassist he played, toured and
recorded a.o. with Johny Griffin,
Deborah Brown, De Daniels, Bob
Mintzer and Ferdinand Povel. He
has been part of pianist Rob van
Bavel’s Trio for a long time. As
a classical player he frequently
plays in several symphony orchestras in the Netherlands. In theatre
productions he played in shows
of the famous Dutch comedian
Toon Hermans and the famous
duo Mini & Maxi. He is a member
and arranger of a tango orchestra
named Grupo del Sul. Marc was
co-founder of Pro Basse, promoting bass instruction for young
children. Marc composes and
arranges music for various professional orchestras and ensembles.
Marc is professor of double bass
at the Fontys Academy in Tilburg.
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Ferdinando Romano started
playing classical guitar at a very
young age, switching afterwards
to the electric bass and the double bass, getting his diploma at
the Conservatorio L. Cherubini
of Florence. At the same time he
studied composition and orchestration in the same music academy with Paolo Furlani. He studied jazz with Ares Tavolazzi and
William Parker. As a sideman he
collaborated in many recordings
of jazz and pop music and he is
also active as a composer. In 2010
he published his album ‘Tandem’
together with Marco Poggiolesi.
The reviews of the album have
been very positive in many music
magazines and Ferdinando’s original composition ‘Memories’ has
been introduced in the compilation of best Italian jazz recordings
‘Italian Jazz: le 50 migliori tracce
del jazz Italiano’ published by
Believe Digital.
Stefano Sciascia
Italy
Stefano Sciascia began studying
double bass at the age of sixteen and soon began playing with
various orchestras and performing throughout Europe and North
America. In 1994 Sciascia recorded
his first CD: Opere per contrabasso e pianoforte by G. Bottesini.
10 more CDs were released with
Rivo Alto Italy and King Records
Japan. His latest release is Lux ex
Tenebris. Bottesini’s Opere per
contrabasso e pianorte, Elegie,
Songs of the World and Concerto
cd’ was released by Naxos. He
has played at every ISB convention since 2001. In September 2004
he was invited to Japan, Tokyo,
Osaka and Kobe. He has also gave
master classes in Italy, Norway
(Oslo Academy), Finland (Sibelius
Academy in Helsinki), theTrinity College of Music London, the
Riga Latvian Academy, the Zagreb
Academy, the Salzburg Mozarteum
Academy and the Jerusalem
Academy. The Sciascia-Leonardi
duo has been performing in Italy
and abroad since 1994. Sciascia
teaches the double bass class
at the Conservatorio di Musica
G. Tartini in Trieste. He plays a
Presunto Ruggeri bass dating from
1700.
Artists and Jury Members
Rudolf Senn
Netherlands
Dominic Seldis
United Kingdom
British born Dominic Seldis
studied with Duncan McTier at
Chetham’s School of Music in
Manchester, Robin McGee at The
Royal Academy of Music, London
and Klaus Stoll at The Mozarteum,
Salzburg. He is currently the 1st
solo Double Bass of the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra in
Amsterdam, a position he has held
since 2008. As well as orchestral
work, he regularly plays solo recitals and concertos throughout the
world as well as chamber music.
He gives master classes all over
the world and is visiting professor
at The Royal Academy of Music,
London. Dominic is also appears
regularly on British and Dutch
radio and television stations both
as a player and a personality, most
notably as a juror on BBC and
AVRO’s ‘Maestro’ (Dutch television). He is a keen amateur boxer
and magician and is father of 3
daughters.
More info www.dominicseldis.com
Rudolf Senn played classical
guitar and switchted to the double bass at age 16. After his cum
laude graduation as a student
of professor Anthony Woodrow
at the Amstedam Conservatory,
Senn broadened his musical
scope studying with professor
Franco Petracchi in Italy and cellist
Wolfgang Mehlhorn in Germany.
He played with the Camerata Lysy
string academy for eight years.
His fascination for ancient music
made him coninue his studies
with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. He
played with baroque specialists
Anner Bijlsma, Sigiswald Kuijken
and Bob van Asperen, to name a
few. Rudolf Senn is solo bassist
of the Netherlands Philharmonic
Orchestra, a position he shared
for 25 years with Hans Roelofsen.
As ‘Grand Duo Concertant’ they
toured throughout Europe and the
USA with orchestras, appearing
in duo recitals in famous concert
venues like the Concertgebouw
and Carnegie Hall, giving master
classes at universities. Rudolf successfully reintroduced the use of
the G-violone, preceding the violoncello as the favorite continuo
instrument. www.violone.nl
Bret Simner
United States
Bret Simner received his
Bachelor and Master degrees at
the Juilliard School, his doctorate from the State University of
New York at Stony Brook, and
Fortbildingsstudium at the Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis. Bret currently serves as principal bassist
of the Barock Orchestra Capricco.
He has appeared as a guest lecturer at the Curtis Institute of
Music, the Juilliard School, New
England Conservatory, Peabody
Conservatory, Yale University,
University of Hartford, the Musik
Akademie der Stadt Basel, the
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste,
The Guildhall School of Music
and Drama, the Northwestern
University and the University
of Michigan. Bret’s additional
ensemble work includes projects
with Kammerorchester Basel,
Cantus Firmus Barock Orchester,
the Opéra Théâtre de Besançon,
La Chambre Philharmonique,
Ensemble Baroque du Grand
Théâtre de Genève, Camerata
Schweiz, and the Orchestra of the
Age of Enlightenment.
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Margaret Urquhart
Netherlands
Dan Styffe
Norway
Dan Styffe, born in Sweden was
for most of his professional career
based in Norway. After studies
with Göran Nyberg, Knut Guettler
and Gary Karr (working as Karr´s
assistant in 1981-82) he made his
Oslo solo-debut 1985 and after
that he has been very active as
soloist and chamber musician. He
participates in many international
double bass conventions around
the world He has also been a jury
member on international bass
competitions. Styffe recorded four
acclaimed solo cd´s on SIMAX
Classics and recently recorded
with violinist Dora Schwarzberg
for Contra Classics and a new
cd with music by French composer Bernard Salles. He commissioned many new pieces and
regularly works together with
several composers. In April 2011
Styffe premiered and recorded
Rolf Martinsson´s Concerto No 1
with Oslo Philharmonic/ Saraste
and later that same year Fredrik
Högberg´s concerto “Hitting
the First Bass” with the Tromsø
Chamber Orchestra, Dan plays
a Gasparo da Saló bass made in
Brescia, Italy ca. 1580.
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Margaret Urquhart studied double bass and violone with Anthony
Woodrow and Viola da Gamba
with Anneke Pols at the Royal
Conservatory in The Hague.
After completing her studies
she became a member of many
notable baroque ensembles
including ‘La Petite Bande’ conducted by Sigiswald Kuijken, the
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
(Ton Koopman), the Leonhardt
Consort and Collegium Vocale
Gent (Philippe Herrewege). Since
1986 she has been a member of
the Orchestra of the Eighteenth
Century (Frans Brüggen) and
has been active as a chamber
music performer taking part in
many radio, tv and cd recordings.
She has taught baroque double bass/violone at The Hague
Conservatory since 1989 and at
the Amsterdam Conservatory
since 1999. In addition to her
teaching post she also teaches the
bass and violone at the University
of Salamanca and coaches at
the European Baroque Orchestra
training courses. She performs
and teaches on the 16 foot double
bass/violone, the Viennese double
bass and also the eight foot violone in various tunings.
David Whitla
Ireland
Canadian double bassist David
Whitla moved to Ireland in 1998
and was a member of the National
Symphony Orchestra before taking his current post as Lecturer
of Double Bass at the CIT Cork
School of Music. He is an active
freelance orchestral and chamber musician, playing, recording and touring regularly with
the Irish Chamber Orchestra, as
well as solo and chamber music
recitals and contemporary music
concerts with groups such as the
Cork New Music Ensemble and
the Crash Ensemble in Dublin.
As an occasional soloist, David
has performed recitals in Cork
and Limerick, and in 2012 played
Bottesini’s Gran Duo Concertante
with Sébastien Petiet and the RTÉ
Concert Orchestra. David plays on
a French bass made by Francois
Lejeune in Paris c.1765, which was
recently restored by Tom Barrett.
Artists and Jury Members
Thomas Winther Andersen
Norway
Originally from Norway, Thomas
Winther Andersen has lived in
Amsterdam for several years.
He studied at the Amsterdam
Conservatory from 1988 to
1993 obtaining a Master degree
one year later at the Royal
Conservatory of The Hague. In
1995, he received a grant from
a Dutch Performing Arts Fund
(Fonds voor de podiumkunsten),
to study in New York with Sal
Mosca. As a teacher he has taught
bass, ensemble and improvisation classes at Norwegian State
Academy and at the Rotterdam
and Amsterdam Conservatories.
Next to playing the bass, Thomas
also composes and arranges
music for his bands. Many of his
compositions were recorded on
cd and for the radio. His oeuvre
also includes chamber music and
works for Big Band. He toured
throughout Europe and the USA
with different musicians and
bands also playing solo bass repertory. Thomas has worked a.o.
with: Jimmy Halperin, Lee Konitz,
Robert Rook, Michiel Borstlap,
Håkon Storm, and John Engels.
Donat Zamiara
Poland
Donat Zamiara graduated with
distinction at the Music Academy
in Poznan in 2003. He was 3rd
prize winner at the Polish National
A. B. Ciechanski double bass
Competition in Poznan in 2007
and 4th prize winner at the IV
International S. Koussevitzky
double bass Competition in St.
Petersburg in 201. He obtained the
position of principal double bassist at Poznan Grand Opera Theater
and teacher at the Secondary
School of Music and the Music
Academy in Poznan.
Diego Zecharies
Spain
Diego Zecharies studied in
Montevideo, Jerusalem and Berlin,
where he graduated at the ÜdK
with Professors R. Zepperitz, K.
Stoll and violinist Prof. I. Gronich.
He has played as principal bass
under the baton of Mehta, Maazel,
Abbado, Nagano, Ashkenazy,
Temirkanov and Ozawa with
famous solists like Ma, Bashmet,
Mutter, F.P.Zimmerman, Argerich
and Brendel. Zecharies also
played in the Israel Philharmonic
and Lucerne Festival Orchestra,
recording for ARTE and Deutsche
Grammophon with Maestro
Abbado. Zecharies was principal bass in the Brandenburg
Symphony Orchestra and the
Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He
is currently principal bass in the
Galicia Symphony Orchestra and
Art Orchestra. As a soloist, he has
performed in Spain and SouthAmerica giving solo recitals.
He has given numerous master
classes and has been appointed
director of the double bass in the
National Orchestral Training Plan
of Uruguay, where he annually
gives seminars, concerts and master classes.
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The Bassmonsters
Germany
Bass Chorus Ensemble
Slovenia
Almere Youth Symphony Orchestra
Netherlands
This bass quartet was founded in
2009 by Claus Freudenstein to support the band ‘Deep Purple’ at the
“Great Wide Open Concert”. To
have a good name to fit this event
he choose ‘Bassmonsters’ for his
ensemble that had 12 players at
that time. Later the ‘Bassmonsters’
went on developing their arrangements and adapted their playing
techniques to their new style. In
2012 they recorded their first cd
“Classic meets Rock“ which is the
first recording in history featuring
4 double basses playing rock classics in an ‘electrified’ string quartet. In the April issue of the Strad
Magazine the cd got a fantastic
review and now the cd is known
worldwide. In a line-up with bassists Szymon Marciniak, Emilio
Yepes, Stephan Bauer and founder
Claus Freudenstein they enter the
stage in Amsterdam!
Members: Zoran Markovicz, Janez
Avsic, Ziga Trilar, Grega Rus and
Todor Markovic.
Zoran Marković has undertaken the
task of arranging some of the most
famous choral pieces of Serbian
music, Song Wreaths, composed
by Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac
(1856-1914). At the end of the 19th
century their fame was spread
throughout Europe by The first
Belgrade Singing Society. Song
Wreaths are based on selected folk
songs from Serbia, Montenegro,
Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo and
Metohija and Dalmatia. Among
them are the most beautiful spiritual compositions of Mokranjac:
We sing Thee, We bless Thee and
the Cherubic Hymn. The text, a
most important factor for vocal
music, showed the way for expression in this unusual instrumental arrangement. The first concert of the Bass Chorus Ensemble
was presented in the ‘Stevan
Mokranjac’ music school in
Požarevac in 2006. Since then Bass
Chorus performed in Slovenia,
Serbia, Italy and Austria.
From a couple of kids playing
together, calling themselves ‘The
Muppets’, to winning third place
in the Vienna Summa Cum Laude
festival last summer, the Almere
Youth Symphony Orchestra has
come a long way since its commencement a little over 25 years
ago. The AJSO is a symphony
orchestra for young people of
between 14 and 30 years of age. It
has developed into one of the most
distinguished youth orchestras in
the country and has earned a high
reputation for its performance
of classical and popular music.
Today, it is generally regarded as
Almere’s resident orchestra and
has been asked ever more often to
represent the city of Almere in various events, from performances in
festivals to providing the musical
backdrop for Royal visits.
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Led by conductor Hans Welle the
orchestra plays symphonies, film
scores, jazz and rock, and accompanies singers and soloists. It has
played with renowned artists like
Jan Vayne and Ernst Daniël Smid,
but also performs in prison, television shows and school programmes. On this occasion the
orchestra will accompany a prize
winner of Bass2014 in a concerto
for double bass and orchestra.
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Accompanists
Edwin van den Berg
Netherlands
Tobias Borsboom
Netherlands
Edwin van den Berg began playing the piano at the age of 7. He
studied under professors Edith
Lateiner-Grosz and Willem Brons
at the Sweelinck Conservatory in
Amsterdam. Edwin has played
many recitals in the Netherlands
(including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw), Italy, Austria (Vienna) and Belgium. With doublebass player Hans Roelofsen he
played many recitals in the Netherlands, France, Luxemburg and Germany. They recorded French and
Russian romantic music for double bass and piano on the Dutch
label Ottavo. The total amount of
visits of YouTube of their live TV
performance of Glazunov ‘s Elegy
opus 17 and Saint-Saëns Allegro
Appassionato was given highest
rankings and has been watched
by more than 50.000 people so far.
Together they explored the entire
original repertoire for double bass
and piano as well as many transcriptions from the cello/piano
repertoire. He was invited to be
one of the official accompanists at
the Bass2012 Copenhagen where
he played concerts with 11 different bassists in 5 days.
Tobias Borsboom began playing
the piano at the age of seven. He
received his first lessons from
Denise Overeem and Farida Zejnal.
He had his early successes in
several youth competitions in the
Netherlands and was invited to
join the YoungTalent class of the
Utrecht Conservatory where Paolo
Giacometti was his first professor.
Tobias joined the master classes of
Geoffrey Madge, Vladimir Tropp,
Evgeni Koroliov and Klaus Hellwig.
He was successful at the Concertgebouw Entree Chamber Music
Competion (2006), the Prinses
Christina Concours, the International YPF Competition (2007 and
2010), the Canal Festival Amsterdam Conservatory Competition
(2012) and the Grand Dominique
(2012). He graduated in 2013 receiving his Master of Music certificate at the Amsterdam Conservatory where the renowned Jan Wijn
was his professor. In the mean
time Borsboom played concerts
in the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, America, Canada
and Japan, appearing at festivals
such as The International Holland
Music Sessions, Grachten Festival,
Storioni Festival and Bass2014
Almere. Since 2014 he has been
affiliated with the Amsterdam Conservatory as pianist of the professor Arno Bornkamp class. He was
nominated for the Dutch Classical
Talent Award and given a scholarship and extensive tour throughout
the Netherlands (2014-2015).
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Yukiko Hasegawa
Japan
Yukiko Hasegawa received two
Master diplomas; one at the
Musashino Academia Musicae
in Tokyo, Japan and one at the
Amsterdam Conservatory, as a
student of professor Willem Brons.
Yukiko took master classes with
Prof. Klaus Hellwig, Jan Wijn, Pascal Devoyon, Arnulf von Arnim,
Lee Kum-Sing, Vradimir Tropp,
Malcolm Bilson, Piet Kuyken and
Alexei Lubimov. Currently she
consults Dominique Merlet who
is renowned for giving instruction to outstanding young pianists. Yukiko frequently performs
in The Netherlands, Japan and in
Germany e.g. in 2004 when she
performed Beethoven’s fifth Piano
Concerto with the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton
of Roland Bader. Since 2012 Yukiko
has been one of the accompanists
of the International Holland Music
Sessions. She appears at numerous festivals such as the Utrecht
Festival of Ancient Music, the Cello
Festival Zutphen, Grachtenfestival
in Amsterdam and the Summer
Festival at the isle of Schiermonnikoog.
She organizes with Podium Talent Nederland the “Festival der
Kunsten Statenkwartier” in The
Hague, a festival for young professional visual artists and musicians.
Marina Pacowski
France
Siebe Henstra
Netherlands
Siebe Henstra studied the harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt and
TonKoopman at the Sweelinck
Conservatory in Amsterdam. He
has won prizes at competitions in
Edinburgh (1982) and Amsterdam
(1987).
He worked as continuo player with
several famous directors - e.g.
Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt
and Jos van Veldhoven-.As a soloist on harpsichord and clavichord
he gave numerous performances
troughout the world.
He is continuo player (organ and
harpsichord) of the Netherlands
Bach Society, forms a duo with
cellist Lucia Swarts and the duo
‘Der prallende Doppelschlag’ with
Menno van Delft on two clavichords, harpsichords or organs.
Siebe Henstra has given a number
of masterclasses in Finland,
Germany, Italy, Portugal, France,
Japan, the USA, Mexico, Catalunya, and the Czech Republic. He
teaches harpsichord since 1988 at
the Utrecht conservatory.
He made several solo Cd’s. One
entirely devoted to 17th century
italian music for harpsichord solo
and another one with the complete
keyboard works of Matthias Weckmann, both released by Ricercar.
A CD with clavichord works for
the MIM in Brussels and he contributed to the complete recording
of Sweelinck which got an Edison
award (2003) as well as an award
from the ‘Deutsche Schallplatten
Kritik Preis (2003).
Marina Pacowski has many different sides to her artistic career:
she is at once a classical pianist,
actress and opera singer’s coach
as well as a pianist and jazz singer
with several groups, and she has
performed in many different countries (the USA, Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium) – and of
course, in France.
She studied with Ada Labeque
(Katia and Marielle Labeque’s
mother), Alain Motard, Angeline
Pondepeyre and Peio Çabalette
and she perfected her technique
alongside Bruno Rigutto, Margaret
Singer, Cordelia Huberti, Serge Zapolski and the conductors Robert
Delcroix and Dejan Savic. She has
also worked with many other people, each of whom has helped her
to grow musically. She won the
Hanz Gabor Belvedere International Competition (Vienna, Austria)
in the “Singer’s Coaching Direction” category, just a few months
after being chosen as the Coach
for singers’ director for the Young
Voices of the Rhine ( Jeunes voix
du Rhin) during their 2000/2001
season (as part of the National
Opera of the Rhine’s programme).
She also obtained first prizes in
piano, accompaniment, chamber
music, analysis and composition
at the Conservatoires of Bayonne,
Bordeaux, and Rueil Malmaison
(Paris).
Vaughan Schlepp
Netherlands
Vaughan Schlepp (Tokyo, 1956)
received his first piano lessons
in England, where he performed
at the age of five. He continued
his studies in the United States,
played a piano concerto when he
was twelve and graduated magna
cum laude from the Eastman
School of Music in New York. His
interest in early music took him
to The Netherlands for study with
Gustav Leonhardt. As a performer
on the harpsichord as well as on
the 18th and 19th-century fortepiano and the modern piano,
Vaughan has given numerous recitals and master-classes throughout the world as well as having
made recordings for radio, television and CD. He has performed
as soloist with orchestras in The
Netherlands and America, and as
a chamber musician with artists as
Anner Bijlsma, Lucy van Dael and
Barbara Schlick. As organist he
has participated in the recordings
of the complete Bach Cantatas released in 2001. Vaughan Schlepp is
intensively involved with modern
music and theatre, and is active as
a teacher and coach for both singers and instrumentalists. Since
1989, he has been in demand as
an arranger, music typesetter and
publisher.
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Rob van Bavel
Netherlands
Rob van Bavel graduated cum
laude at the jazz department of the
Rotterdam Conservatory. Winning scond prize at the Thelonious
Monk Competition (Washington
DC) and solo prizes in jazz competitions in Germany and Belgium
he was awarded the Wessel Ilcken
Prijs and received an Edison for
his cd ‘Rob van Bavel Trio’. He
played with international jazz stars
like Woody Shaw, Randy Brecker,
Johnny Griffin, Wynton Marsalis,
Gary Willis and Joe Henderson.
He participated in the recording
of more than a hundred cd’s as a
side man to a.o. Deborah Brown,
Piet Noordijk, the Jarmo Hoogendijk/Ben van den Dungen Quintet,
Eric Ineke’s JazzXpress and his
Rob van Bavel Trio, Octet, Quintet and trio ‘The Ghost, the King
and I’. He is an active arranger for
string quartet, Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra, Metropole Strings,
Jazz orchestra of the Concertgebouw, his Rob van Bavel Octet and
vocalists Ronald Douglas, Deborah
Brown, Marjorie Barnes and Buyoung Lee. Since 25 years he has
been working at the jazz department of the Amsterdam Conservatory, the Royal Conservatory of
The Hague and Codarts School of
the Arts in Rotterdam.
www.robvanbavel.com
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Hans van Oosterhout
Netherlands
Hans van Oosterhout graduated at
the Codarts Academy of the Arts
in Rotterdam and became one of
the most sought after drummers
is Europe, playing with famous
musicians like Toots Thielemans,
Philip Catherine, Ralph Moore,
Mark Murphy, Spike Robinson,
Nat Adderley, Bob Malach, Victor
Lazlo, Lee Konitz, Rick Margitza,
Denise Jannah, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Madeline Bell, Kenny Wheeler,
Gary Burton, Marlena Shaw, Benny
Golson, Magic Malik, Red Holaway,
James Moody, Bobby Watson, Nelson Veras, Harmen Fraanje, Benny
Golson, Jesse van Ruller, Deborah
Brown, Dee Daniels, Dr. Lonnie
Smith, The Metropole Orchestra,
Kenny Werner, Pete King, Peter
Hertmans, Richard Galliano, Chico
Freeman, Von Freeman, Lionel
Loueke, Anne Ducros, Vaya Con
Dios, David Sanchez, Johnny Griffin, Randy Brecker, John Scofield,
Gino Vannelli and was active recording as a sideman in more than
a hundred cd’s. Hans is highly appreciated for flexibility and ability
to adapt to almost any music style.
In 1998 the Belgium Jazz Magazine
voted him the best jazz drummer
in Europe. Hans is working as professor of percussion in Rotterdam
and Tilburg.
www.hansvanoosterhout.nl
Magnus Hjorth
Sweden
Magnus Hjorth, born in Sweden,
is based in Copenhagen, where he
graduated in 2009 at the Rhythmic
Music Conservatory. He played
trombone and violin, but switched
to the piano at age twelve. He
has appeared on several recordings, including those with his
own Magnus Hjorth Trio, which
consists of the Swedish bassist
Petter Eld and Norwegian drummer Snorre Kirk. Magnus Hjorth
has also collaborated with Danish
singer Malene Mortensen’s band
and was involved in a couple of
her cd’s. Discography: Magnus
Hjorth Trio Loco Motif (2007),
Old, New, Borrowed, Blue (2009),
Gershwin. With strings (2011),
People Are Machines (2006), Suite
For The Seven Mountains (2007),
Live Getxo (2007), Fractal (2011),
Malene Mortensen Band: Malene
(2007), Agony and Extacy (2009),
Someday. Live in Japan (2010),
Plastic Moon (2011), Organic Warfare (2007), Danish Radio Big Band
featuring Chris Potter: Rumination
(2010), Monday Night Big Band
& Anders Larson (2010), Mads La
Cour Im Beruf, Grandpa ‘Left You
Nothing “(2010), Sidsel Storm
Band: Nothing In between (2012)
Accompanists
Snorre Kirk
Sweden
Snorre Kirk is one of the rare
drummers who does not only
perform as a sideman but who
has rounded up his own band, the
Snorre Kirk Quintet as well. On the
highly acclaimed release “Blues
Modernism”, recently awarded
with both the prestigious Jazz
Special Award for “Album of the
Year” 2012, drummer Snorre Kirk
gets to show off his qualities as a
composer and band leader. Featuring a stellar cast of contemporary
Scandinavian jazz greats, this
mellow and soulful album is the
downright antithesis of the often
dreaded drummer-as-bandleader
format, and shows Snorre Kirk to
be an accomplished and highly
original composer and artist as
well as a drummer. As indicated
by its title, this album is testament
to the unquavering and timeless
qualities found in the blues, its
uncanny ability to portray the full
range of human emotion still unsurpassed in the year 2012. “I am
privileged to be aware of Snorre,
his music, and the fine musicians
on this record. Any listener will
have a fun time listening to this
record, and will enjoy it for years
to come.” (Jason Marsalis) “..a distinguished composer and a grand
band leader”
www.jazzstjerner.dk
Jacob Bogaart
Netherlands
received his pianistic and conductor’s training at the Mozarteum
in Salzburg. He graduated cum
laude, continuing his piano studies
successively with Carlo Zecchi in
Rome, Magda Tagliaferro in Paris,
whose assistant he became, as
well as with Rafael de Silva and
Claudio Arrau. He was prize winner
in three international piano-competitions while also performing as
a soloist and chamber musician in
the Concertgebouw Amsterdam as
well as in several cultural centers
in New York, Washington, London,
Paris, Rome, Frankfurt, Munich,
Salzburg and Vienna.. Participating in the Styriarte Festival, the
Autumn Festival in Warsaw and
the Aarhus Numus Festival for
contemporary music, he appeared
for radio and television, both as
a soloist and as a member of a
chamber music ensemble. He
performed with conductors such
as Sergiu Commisiona, Gaetano
Delogu, Václav Neumann, Jan
Krenz, Edo de Waart, Roberto
Benzi, Jean Fournet and Ernest
Bour, with whom he recorded all of
Beethoven’s piano concertos. He
also worked together with famous
quartets such as the Alban Berg
Quartet.
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Featured Artists
Yosika Morita
viola
Frank Polman
violin
Joshua Cheatham
viola da gamba
Timur Sergeyenia
piano
Nico van der Meel
tenor
Julie Borsodi
cello
Mario Poggiolesi
guitar
Michèle Delache
actress
Haruko Tanabe
Viola d’Amore
Ivan Tibolla
piano
Robert Smith
Viola da Gamba
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Competitions
International Competitions Bass2014Almere
Competitions held simultaneously for different age
groups and categories have put Almere on the map of
young bassists from all over the world. Coming from
Hong Kong, Venezuela, the USA and many European
countries, more than sixty young bass players are
competing for prizes that have been generously
donated by our sponsors.
The competitions are all open to the audience except
the youngest age groups for which it is already an
experience to play for a jury and too much pressure
should be avoided. Bass students aiming for a professional career will not be disturbed by the presence of
the audience, they might have thoughts about who
is in the jury. Therefore the jury has been balanced
out as far as the style of playing is concerned. The
compulsory pieces were chosen to keep the balance
between technical and musical demands on the
candidates.
In the classical competition all candidates were asked
to send in recordings of a classical double bass concerto, two contrasting movements from a solo cello
suite of J.S. Bach and Glière’s opus 9 Intermezzo and
Tarantella written in 1905 for the Russian bass virtuoso Sergei Koussevitsky. The differences in recording technique were such that the jury had to conclude
that a selection based on audio recording gives little
information about the quantity and quality of the
sound in comparison to the piano. Therefore most of
the work of the jury had to be done in Almere, where
all candidates play under the same circumstances.
A new element in this competition is the obligatory
sonata composed by Willem de Fesch (1687-1761),
who was an active composer and concertmaster in
the Theater of Amsterdam. Candidates have to play
this sonate with a harpsichordist to show their ability
of stylistic performance of ancient music. Next to that
they had a choice from classical and romantic sonata
repertory and a piece from the 20th century or more
recent date. From more than twenty, eight candidates
are selected for the finals to be held in the Amsterdam
Conservatoire Thursday August 28 at 20:15 were three
winners will be chosen.
Grote Markt 121, 1315 JC Almere
Candidates for the category Orchestral Audition
will use the opportunity to play for a professional
in similar circumstances as the auditions held for
orchestra jobs. They have to play two movements of
a classical and a romantic concerto and obligatory
orchestra excerpts. Technically quite demanding and
an excellent exercise in controlling the nerves. Later
in this week’s program will be a workshop stress
management to help young musicians to overcome
stage fright.
The jazz candidates will play the first rounds in
circumstances similar to those in a jazz club. The bar/
dancing/restaurant of Hotel Anno is the venue that
has the atmosphere of a live performance for an audience. Some obligatory pieces were chosen from the
repertory of Dutch jazz composers. The Finals will be
held in the Blue Note the jazz hall of the Amsterdam
Conservatoire Thursday August 28 at 20:15.
Bass makers were invited to send in or to bring a bass
to be judged not only for the craftsmanship but also
ergonomical design. A blind sound test will be held in
which three different musicians will play the instrument behind a curtain.
Classical performers were asked to submit their
transcriptions or arrangements for the bass of works
of great composers to a professional jury. Too often
publishers use the same material for cello and bass
without giving any consideration to the effect that
playing the same notes an octave lower or at the same
pitch might have on the performance. Singers have a
choice between three editions; for high, medium or
low voice. We encourage our colleagues and students
to make transcriptions that fit our instrument best.
Winning a competition is a big stimulus for only a
happy few, but far more important is the learning
effect for all concerned.
On the long run the real winners might be those who
came and left without a prize today, but were vitalised
by the effects of participating.
Oosterdokskade 151, 1011 DL Amsterdam
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Venues
Schouwburg Almere
Schouwburg Almere / Almere Theatre located was
designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the
Japanese office SANAA. De building consists of a onefloor-tall floor measuring 100 by 100 metres. extending
from the bank out over the water like a diving board.
Rising out of this ‘base slice’ are three volumes; a small
one for the art centre (150 square metres) and two big
volumes for the theatre and stage tower (350 and 1050).
A section of the building is contained in a basement
while another section is raised on stilts.
A delicate reflection of light and air – that’s the
impression the building leaves after a visit. The
ensemble is austere and sensitive, the architecture is
appealing. The façades are made entirely of glass and
allow light to penetrate the building horizontally, and
corridors bring the light further inside. That also results
in long vistas. From the entrance you can see the water
glistening 100 metres further ahead. The roof is largely
closed, but light shafts made of translucent synthetic
material and patios allow for vertical light penetration.
The studios and rooms for music classes are arranged
next to square-like inner spaces. The theater has three
concert halls; the largest has 1000 seats, the mediumsized hall 350 and the smallest hall has 150 seats. The
heater has three foyers and a café-restaurant were
participants can have lunch.
Esplanade 10, 1315 TA Almere
www.schouwburgalmere.nl
Boat tour through Seventeenth-Century
Canal Ring Tuesday August 26
The historic urban ensemble of the canal district of
Amsterdam was a project for a new ‘port city’ built at
the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries.
It comprises a network of canals to the west and south
of the historic old town and the medieval port that
encircled the old town and was accompanied by the
repositioning inland of the city’s fortified boundaries,
the Singelgracht. This was a long-term programme that
involved extending the city by draining the swampland,
using a system of canals in concentric arcs and filling
in the intermediate spaces. These spaces allowed
the development of a homogeneous urban ensemble
including gabled houses and numerous monuments.
This urban extension was the largest and most
homogeneous of its time. It was a model of large-scale
town planning, and served as a reference throughout
the world until the 19th century.
It is a masterpiece of hydraulic engineering, town
planning, and a rational programme of construction
and bourgeois architecture. It is a unique and
innovative, large-scale but homogeneous urban
ensemble. The Amsterdam Canal District bears
witness to an exchange of considerable influences
over almost two centuries, in terms not only of civil
engineering, town planning, and architecture, but also
of a series of technical, maritime, and cultural fields.
In the 17th century Amsterdam was a crucial centre
for international commercial trade and intellectual
exchange, for the formation and the dissemination
of humanist thought; it was the capital of the worldeconomy in its day.
The canal ring represents an outstanding example of
a built urban ensemble that required and illustrates
expertise in hydraulics, civil engineering, town
planning, construction and architectural knowhow.
In the 17th century, it established the model for the
entirely artificial ‘port city’ as well as the type of
Dutch single dwelling with its variety of façades and
gables. The city is testimony, at the highest level, to a
significant period in the history of the modern world.
Reservations boat trip and tickets www.bass2014.eu
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Amstel Church
Late night concerts in Splendor
The unique pinewood Amstelkerk was erected in
1668 as a makeshift church under the direction of the
city architect, Daniël Stalpaert. The idea was that the
congregation would have somewhere to meet while
a permanent church arose next to it but plans for
this stone church were abandoned in the 1840s. The
Amstelkerk’s square-shaped interior was updated with
neo-Gothic alterations, including an organ built in
1842 by J.Bätz & Co. It’s now a popular concert venue
and the residence of Stadsherstel a company for city
restoration. Stadsherstel Amsterdam restores and
preserves all kinds of monuments in an urban or rural
environment in such manner, that the character of the
building is left intact and that further development will
not cause any damage to the architecture, or change it
in any way. Stadsherstel owns more than 500 houses
and 30 larger monuments, e.g. churches and industrial
monuments like pumping-stations and a shipyard. The
example set by Stadsherstel, that the historic centre
of Amsterdam became a very sought-after residential
area.
An example of cultural innovation, Splendor is a huge
success story on the Dutch music scene. This oneof-a-kind cultural haven can be found in the centre of
Amsterdam, located inside an old bath house. A team
of 50 top musicians based in the Netherlands helped
transform the vision of Splendor into a reality when it
opened its doors in September 2013. Run by musicians
for musicians and music lovers, Splendor crowdfunded the renovation of this building as a
performance, rehearsal and social venue through its
1000 membership base. With 8 performances per week,
regular live radio broadcasts on Dutch Radio 4 and
an educational foundation (Splendor Kids), providing
music lessons for children of all ages in Dutch and
English, Splendor is an outstanding example of
dynamic business vision in a cultural setting. Splendor
offers both artists and audiences unforgettable events
in one of the city’s most unique venues. They typically
include performances by artists, musicians, and
writers.
Amstelveld 10, 1017 JD Amsterdam
Splendor is ± 15 minutes walking distance from the
Amstel Church.
Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 116, 1011 LX Amsterdam
www.splendoramsterdam.com
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Transposing your favorite music for the bass
Every singer is familiar with songs
(Lieder) and vocal methods being
presented in three versions; for
high, medium and low voice, for
the obvious reason that a singer
can only be expressive within his
or her natural voice range.
When we look at the vast repertory
of transcriptions for the bass, this
logic seems to be totally absent.
For example: Most sonatas from
the Baroque and Rococo in our
repertory are originally violin and
cello sonatas by Corelli, Eccles,
Vivaldi, Marcello a.o. It is doubtful
that these sonatas or Bach’s Suites
for solo cello will sound well when
played an octave lower than the
composers had in mind. Playing
these works in the highest positions on the bass, sounding a
whole tone higher than the original in solo tuning is questionable. From the octave (G In thumb
position) we have a vibrating string
length of 52,5 cm. (half of a string
length of 105 cm.). The same note
on the cello comes from the open
G string of 69 cm. We all know
that the upright piano produces
notes of the same frequencies as
the grand piano, but hardly anyone will prefer the sound of the
shorter stringed Upright to that of
the Grand Piano. It is impossible
to play cello pieces at the same
pitch on the bass in thumb positions with the facility and free resonance that the cello enjoys in lower
positions.
Most scholars are familiar with
the fact that in the 17th and 18th
century the approach of transposing by altering the key was common practice. Following the historic example we should play our
favorite sonatas and solo suites
reading tenor in stead of bass clef.
The result is more satisfying; the
pieces now sound only a fourth
(or with solo tuning, a third) lower
than the original in a more comfortable and resonant range of our
instrument. 36
Why is everyone playing Rachmaninovs Vocalise opus 34
nr 14 in E minor when the original
for the voice is in C sharp minor?
Understandably the violin version
is transposed to E minor - with only
one sharp a more comfortable key.
The cello followed in the same key
an octave lower. But why should
the bass follow the violin and cello
blindly, when both do not play the
piece in the original key? Given the fact that there are three
versions for high, low and medium
voice to be found on the internet ISMLP we can choose the version of the Vocalise for low voice
in A minor that certainly does
more justice to the bass. No baritone or bass singer would even
think of singing Schubert’s Lieder
or Fauré’s Chansons in a version
for high voice. It is remarkable that
bassists did not think of following
the singer’s example.
In most editions for the bass the
word Cello is replaced by Bass,
with addition of fingerings and
simplifications here and there. In
the mean time facimilé editions
for cello and basso continuo made
a drastic change in our perspective on printed versions with piano
realisations of later dates. In the
17th and 18th century composers
did not write out all details concerning articulation, ornamentation
and dynamics. Three long notes at
the end of a part of a sonata would
not necessarily mean that they
were played as such. The soloist
was most likely expected to fill in
the last bars with an improvised
cadensa. Nowadays we do have
enough harpsichord players reading from original scores, playing
the bass line with the left hand as
written and improvising on the figured bass line with the right hand,
in reaction to the solo part. (basso
continuo practise)
Another question is what we
should do with e.g. Mendelsohn’s
Lied ohne Worte opus 109 when
we transpose this piece from D to
A minor. Do we shift all the notes
down a quart? The chords in the
right hand sound a bit dark, not
exactly what the composer had in
mind. The solution is not too difficult; the left hand goes down a
quart and the chords in the right
hand up a fifth, which gives space
in the middle for the solo bass part.
Some musicians do object that
the composer had a certain tonality in mind. Does anyone object
that Brahms’ violin sonata opus
78 in G major is also played in an
arrangement or transposition for
the cello in D major? Is the bass
or baritone singer wrong to use a
transposed version, when we know
that Schubert conceived most of
his songs in tenor version, being
his own voice? Since we have
music notation programs our life
has become more easy; once the
notes are put in the computer we
can experiment and find out which
version gives the best results. The
combination of knowledge and
skill has turned transposition and
arranging into a new form of art.
Therefore we invited all participants of Bass2014Amsterdam to
present their favourite transpositions and arrangements.
Hans Roelofsen
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Program
Monday August 25
Tuesday August 26
10:00 Opening Ceremony
9:30 Bottesini for Breakfast: Pawel Jablczynsk double
bass & Tobias Borsboom piano
G. Bottesini - Double bass concerto in b minor
V. Persichetti - Parable for db solo
Bottesini - Capriccio di Bravura
10:30 The great Dooble Basse
Joshua Cheatham & Robert Smith viola da gamba,
Maggie Urquhart violone and Siebe Henstra harpsichord
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707): Sonata for Viola da Gamba
and Violone, B.C. (Buxwv 267)
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) Galliard Fantasia a 3 No 18
&19 with The Great Dooble Basse: Johann Michael Nicolai
(1629-1685): Sonata C dur 2 Viola da Gambas, Violone, b.c.
11:30 The five string G Violone
Rudolf Senn violone, Nico van der Meel tenor, Siebe
Henstra harpsichord
Frescobaldi Canzona detta l’ Ambitiosa, J.S. Bach’s Aria
‘Geduld,’ Gamba sonata nr. 3 BWV 1029
12:30 Bret Simner Lecture on historic basses and bows
14:00 Robert Franenberg The Viennese double bass
Power Point Presentation with musical examples Members
of the Orchestra of the 18th Century.
Franc Polman, violin, Yoshiko Morita, viola, Julie Borsodi
cello.
J.B. Vanhal (1739-1813) Divertimento for violin, viola and
double bass.
J.M. Sperger (1750-1812) Duetto for double bass and viola.
F.A. Hoffmeister (1754-1812) Quartetto for double bass,
violin, viola and cello
15:00 Duo Sweet 17 Korneel le Compte & Haruko Tanabe
J.B. Vanhal: Concerto Part 1, arr. for Viennese Bass and
Viola d’Amore.
J.M. Sperger: Sonata for Viennese Bass and Viola d’Amore,
Part 1. Lupis: Codex Lupensis
16:00 David Murray & Jacob Bogaart piano
Grieg Sonata opus 36 in A minor, Bottesini Capriccio
di Bravura
17:00 Giacomo Piermatti Contemporary solo double bass
Stefano Scodanibbio: Geografia Amorosa
Luciano Berio- Stefano Scodanibbio: Sequenza XIVb
Jacob Druckman: Valentine
20:15 Openingconcert Main Hall Almere Theatre
Classic & Jazz
President Bass Europe: Hans Roelofsen double bass
& Edwin van den Berg piano
Glazunov Elegy opus 17 and Chant di Ménestrel opus 71,
Chopin Sonata opus 65 in E minor
President International Society of Bassists (USA): Kristin
Korb jazz vocalist and bassist, Magnus Hjorth piano, Snorre
Kirk drums Finding Home
10:30 -12:00 Blind Test New Basses
11:00 Alexandre Ritter Lecture Nino Rota & Franco Petracci
Lecture on the artistic interaction between composer and soloist
12:00 David Whitla (Middenzaal)
Kadenza (Teppo Hauta-Aho), Bass Trip (Peteris Vasks),
Psy (Luciano Berio) Poetic Caprice (Teppo Hauta-Aho)
Capriccio no.2 (David Anderson)
14:00 Diego Zecharies Music of the 20st and 21 Century
(Middenzaal)
Dave Anderson: Four Short Pieces, Teppo Hauta-aho: Diego
Mosaic.
Francois Rabbath: Poucha Dass, Emil Tabakov: VII Motivy
15:00 Simón Garcia’s Sound world (Grote Zaal)
Simon Garcia’s original compositions for bass solo and
various ensembles (Main Hall)
Dan Styffe, Diego Zecharies, Giuseppe Ettorre, Hagai
Biliztky, Simón García, Alberto Bocini, Thierry Barbé, Kristin
Korb, Barry Green, Rob Nairn, Claus Freudenstein and Emilio
Yepes, double basses. Fernando Briones, conductor.
“The transience of life” (Styffe), - “Californian Duett”
(Zecharies/Ettorre)
“Al-Ándalus” (Styffe/ Biliztky/ García). World Premiere. “AC-133” ( Bocini/ Barbé/García/Korb)
“Der fremde” (Green / Nairn/ Freudenstein/ Yepes/ García/
Korb)
“Time capsule”* (Styffe/ Green/ Freudenstein/Barbé/Nairn/
Yepes/García/ Korb)
“Echoes and Shadows”* (Styffe/ Bocini/Green/Nairn/
Freudenstein/Yepes/
Zecharies/ García/Korb/ Barbé/ Ettorre/ Biliztky). World
Premiere.
* Conducted by Fernando L. Briones.
16:00 Christine Hoock (Grote Zaal)
Piazzolla - Triston, Hoock Rock della Nebbia, Zbinden Hommage à BACH.
Chihara - Logs, Metcalfe - 7 days later, Tabakov - Motivy,
Hoock & Winter - LFO Capricchio
18:00 Amsterdam Experience - Concert Spirituel
at the Amstelkerk
18:00 Departure Almere Central Station arrival 18:23
Amsterdam Central Station
± 18:30 Canal Tour through old Amsterdam arriving 20:00
at the church
Dutch Bass Masters Hans Roelofsen & Rudolf Senn
& Vaughan Schlepp harpsichord and piano
Music for unspecified bass instruments from 17th and
18th century 2 basses and harpsichord. Romantic pieces
influenced by traditional folk and sacred music by Dvorak,
Bruch & Bloch
Reservations boat trip and tickets www.bass2014.eu
Late Night Concert in Bass Club Splendor
www.splendoramsterdam.com
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Wednesday August 27
Thursday AugusT 28
9:30 Bach for Breakfast Giuseppe Ettore
J.S. Bach 1st suite ( in G/ A)
9:30 Bach for breakfast Hans Roelofsen
J.S. Bach Solo Suite nr. 1 in E
10:00 Masterclass Hans Roelofsen
10: 00 Zbigniew Borowicz double bass, Tobias Borsboom
piano
Bottesini Bass Concerto nr. 1 and 2
11:00 David Desimpelaere double bass, Erik Desimpelaere
piano
Roland Coryn Riflessione per contrabasso e pianoforte, 1994
Devreese, Frédéric, Circles, 2007, Desimpelaere, Erik, sonata
for double bass and piano, 2012
12:00 Dan Styffe double bass, Marina Pacowski piano
Teppo Hauta-aho - Poetic Caprice for solo cb
Bernard Salles Portraits for friends for solo cb Nr. 1 Dan
Styffe, Nr 14 Jorma Katrama
Portrait for Marina Nr 1 Reveuse for Marina Pacowski piano
Dan Styffe and Thierry Barbé
Astor Piazzolla - Ave Maria for bass and piano.
Witold Lutoslawski - Grave (orig cello) for bass and piano.
John Alexander - The intelligent hand for solo cb
Simon Garcia - Three Dances for solo double bass (World
Premiere)
14:00 Petru Iuga double bass, Jacob Bogaart piano
F.Schubert Sonata in a-moll “Arpeggione” Teppo Hauta Aho
- Sancho’s Dream,
Bartok Rumenian Dances, C.Saint-Saens - Introduction and
Rondo Capriccioso
15:00 Alberto Bocini double bass, Marina Pacowski piano
G. Bottesini - Fantasia su “Lucia di Lammermoor”, - Fantasia
sul “Sonnambula”
Introduction Theme and Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento
A. Bocini - Tre piccoli pezzi, - Nightmare after Strauss- Ballad n. 3
16:00 Jean-Claude & Michelle Delache
“B.B.Wolf”: Jon Deak (music) Richard Hartshorne(tale)
“Hommage à Oscar Schindler“ John Williams (music)
Michelle Delache (text)
Amsterdam Experience Concert Spirituel II
at the Amstel Kerk
19:00 Departure Almere Central Station arrival 19:23
Amsterdam Central Station
Trams 4, 16, 24 or 25 take you close to the Amstelkerk
Prinsengracht 750
20:15 The best of the Balkans - BassChorusEnsemble
Zoran Marcovic, fascinated by the beauty of Eastern
Orthodox choire music arranged a selection of liturgical
works for his BassChorusEnsemble.
Vassilis Papavassiliou double bass & Yukiko Hasegawa piano
Lowell Liebermann Sonata opus 24 and other works to be
announced
10:00 Donat Zamiara double bass, Yukiko Hasegawa piano
Koussevitsky opus 3 & Paganini Mozes Fantasy
11:00 Bass Kids & Bass Monsters: New Vintage
12:00 Vassilis Papavassiliou double bass
Giorgos Zervos: Chronology, Teppo Hauoto Aho: Simon’s
Scramble
12:00 Masterclass Alberto Bocini
14:00 Aykut Dürsen double bass & Timur Sergeyenia
piano
Les melodies nostalgiques Turkish music for double bass
and piano, saz and tanbur
14:00 Masterclass Petru Luga
15:00 Leon Bosch double bass, Yukiko Hasegawa piano
Josep Cervera Bret original 19th century compositions from
Spain
16:00 Giuseppe Ettore double bass, Marina Pacowski
piano
Vivaldi double concerto (with Thierry Barbé)
Ettorre: 4 pezzi per cb solo
17:00 Bass Monsters
20:15 Finals of the Competition in Amstedam Conservatoire
The Daily Jazz program
The Daily Jazz program in the Schouwburg’s Kleine Zaal
starts with sessions with the masters for participants of the
competition and other students starting at 11:00 am.
After the lunchbreak there will be performances of Jazz
artists Kirstin Korb, Wayne Darling, Hans
Mantel, Ernst Glerum, Jimmy Roger Pedersen, Thomas
Winther Andersen, Morten Ramsbol, Jos Machtel,
Ferdinando Romano, Giancarlo Pavan, Marc van Rooy and
Wiro Mahieu.
Detailed program tba.
Apart from the programs mentioned above there will also
be Fringe and Late Night concerts in Bass Club Splendor
www.splendoramsterdam.com
Reservation tickets www.bass2014.eu
Late Night Concert in Bass Club Splendor
www.splendoramsterdam.com
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Friday August 29
9: 30 Bach for breakfast Rudolf Senn
J.S. Bach suite nr. 3 in G
10:00 Gjiorgji Cinvievski double bass, Yukiko Hasegawa
piano
J.S. Bach ‘Goldberg Variations’ for violin, viola and double bass
Rachmaninov Elegy opus 3 Yukiko Hasegawa piano
11:00 Stress reduction through bio feed back
Lecture Egbert Mulder
11:00 Robert Nairn double bass, Tobias Borsboom piano
Colin Bright “Young Tree Green” for solo double bass,
Douglas Knehans “Tremors” for double bas and piano,
Teppo Hauto aho - Poem basso V for solo double bass
Fernando Millet “Seiza” for db and piano,
Mathew Hindson “Yandarra” for double bass and piano
12:00 Anna’s Way, from Inspiration to Artistry
Barry Green double bass, Marina Pacowski piano
With narration and background visuals.
Music by Tony Osborne, Frank Proto, Arvo Part, Emily
Brown, Francois Rabbath, Astor Piazzolla and more
12:00 Masterclass Giuseppe Ettore
14:00 Stefano Sciasia double bass, Tobias Borsboom
piano
Lasciatemi cantare! Italian arias and Bottesini’s variations
on opera arias
15:00 Enrico Fagone double bass, Yukiko Hasegawa piano
J.S.Bach “extracts from Cello Suite n°3”
G.Bottesini “Reverie” - E. Fagone “Crossover Fantasy”
(Tango, Klezmer, Irish)
A.Piazzolla “Ave Maria” (Transcription by E.Fagone) G.Bottesini “Tarantella”
Saturday after party
at the Tindalvilla in Bussum
Afterparty Tindalvilla 4 p.m.
Please announce your intention to visit
E-mails to: info@tindal.nl
Tindalvilla
Hans Roelofsen
Nieuwe ‘s Gravelandseweg 21
1405HK Bussum
Trains from Amsterdam Central Station
15:22 Track 11B Direction Hilversum/ Zwolle
Arriving 15:51 at Naarden-Bussum
Please note when you take other departure times
you have to transfer at station Weesp
This applies to departures 15:10 or 15:40
Arriving at Station Naarden-Bussum
do not go to the main entrance
walk down the platform to the
pedestrian tunnel and go right
coming up on street level
follow the road with red ribbon
walk 500 metres to the Tindalvilla
Trains from Almere Central Station
15:09 Track 2 Direction Hilversum
Arriving 15:27 at Naarden-Bussum
15:39 Track 2 Direction Hilversum
Arriving 15:57 at Naarden-Bussum
16:00 Szymon Marciniak double bass, Marina Pacowski
piano
17:00 Thierry Barbé double bass, Marina Pacowski piano
Debussy cello sonata Dvorak cello concerto
20:15 Final Concert with prize winners of the Classic and
Jazz competition
Almere Youth Symphony Orchestra Hans Welle conductor
Sergei Prokofjev Romeo & Juliet, Nino Rota La Strada,
Hans Zimmer The Rock, Mancini Peter Gunn
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