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Qualifications

Education

• Doctor of Musical Arts (Double Bass Performance, University of Washington), Master of Music (Double Bass Performance, University of Washington), Bachelor of Music (Jazz Studies, New England Conservatory)

Experience

• RECENT RESPONSABILITIES:

• Freelance Bassist, Jazz Classical Latin Modern, 1992-present

• Tenured Section Bass, Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Yakima WA, 2004-present

• Tenured Section Bass, Tacoma Symphony, Tacoma WA, 2007-present

• Substitute Section Bass, Spokane Symphony, Spokane WA, 2008-present

• Principal Bass, Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle, WA, 2005-2008

• Principal Bass, University of Washington Symphony, 2004-2008

• Double Bass and co-founder, The Prospect, 2002-present

• Festivals:

• 2009 Lucid One Year Anniversary U-District Jazz Walk, Seattle, WA

• Kenai Penninsula Orchestra Summer Festival, Homer and Kenai, AK

• Verbier Festival, Verbier, Switzerland

• International Festival Institute at Round Top, TX

• Mahler Festival, Seattle WA

• Montreux Jazz Festival

• North Sea Jazz Festival

• Conductors:

• Peter Eros

• Lawrence Isaacson

• Grant Llewellyn

• Heiichiro Ohyama

• Charles Olivieri-Munroe

• Adam Stern

• Gregory Vajda

• Pascal Verrot

• Brooke Creswell

• Harvey Felder

• master classes:

• Thomas Martin

• James VanDemark

• Jordan Anderson

• Gary Karr

• Christopher Brown

• Toru Takemitsu

• Ani Kavafian

• Mark Dresser

• Bob Moses

• Sam Rivers

• Dave Holland

• Donovan Stokes

• Principal teachers:

• Barry Lieberman, double bass

• Phil Sparks, double Bass

• Cecil McBee, double bass

• John Lockwood, double bass

• Robert Ceely, composition

• Doug Miller, jazz bass

• Janice Giteck, composition

• other notable teachers:

• Jordan Anderson, Double Bass

• Leigh Mesh, Double Bass

• Joe Kauffman, Double Bass

• James VanDermark, Double Bass

• George Russell, jazz theory, harmony, composition, performance (LCCTO)

• Ran Blake, Ear training, melodic memory

• Joseph Gabriel Maneri, microtonal music and comprovisation

• Daniel Nalesso, Sophrology

• Bob Moses, Moseology

• education:

• University of Washington, Doctorate of Musical Arts in String Performance, awarded 2010

• University of Washington, Master of Music in String Performance, awarded 2005

• New England Conservatory, Bachelor of Musical Arts in Jazz Studies, awarded 2000

• Garfield High School, Seattle WA, graduated 1994

• AFFILIATIONS:

• ASCAP

• AFM local 76-493, Seattle, WA (formerly local 62, Trenton, NJ)

• International Society of Bassists