As a non-profit organization that puts its revenues back to work for its membership, we rely on ISB members to help make the convention a great experience for everyone who attends. We are grateful for the many presenters over the years who have donated their time, travel and talent as a way of giving back to the worldwide bass community.
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Monday, June 5, 2023 |
| Ranaan Meyer |
Time for Three |
7:00 PM
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Tuesday, June 6, 2023 |
| Andrew Hassel |
Luthier's Track: Tension, How Strings and the Soundpost are Related |
9:00 AM
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| Ranaan Meyer |
Performance Anxiety |
9:00 AM
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| John Hamil |
Weird, Wacky, and Potentially Dangerous— Creativity at the fore front of young bassists instruction. |
10:00 AM
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| Caitlyn Kamminga |
TAKE NOTE: IDEA gathering on how the ISB can best support accessibility to instruments and education for its international membership. |
10:00 AM
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| Crystal Rebone |
Bass Trio in the Jazz World: How to Improvise and Arrange for a Jazz Bass Trio and Voice |
10:00 AM
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| Hagai Bilitzky |
Arabic Music and the Bass - HD fingerboard |
11:00 AM
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| Alexander Hanna |
Orchestra Masterclass |
11:00 AM
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| Michael O'Brien |
Improvising with the Bow |
11:00 AM
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| Codi Takacs |
Music In Progress |
11:00 AM
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| Domi Edson |
Domi Edson Trio |
2:00 PM
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| Dennis Whittaker |
Element Juggling: Incredibly Useful Exercises for Expressive Element Development |
2:00 PM
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| Samuel Zagnit |
Bass Players for Black Composers: Live at ISB |
2:00 PM
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| Shawn Alger |
Domenico Dragonetti and the Eb Sextet of Cipriani Potter |
3:00 PM
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| Utah Hamrick |
Like a Horn Player: a method for improved solo articulation and speed on the upright bass |
3:00 PM
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| Arnold Schnitzer |
Luthier's Track: The Handy Double Bassists (Co-Presenter: Christian Chesanek) |
3:00 PM
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| Brett Shurtliffe |
The Solo Works of Edouard Nanny (not the Dragonetti Concerto) |
3:00 PM
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| Aaron White |
Orchestral Masterclass |
3:00 PM
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| Ron Merhavi |
Hidden Treasures |
4:00 PM
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| Sonia Ray |
Brazilian Music by Qualea Trio |
4:00 PM
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| Patricia Weitzel |
Masterclass |
4:00 PM
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| Derek Weller |
College audition and application panel discussion |
4:00 PM
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| Nina Bernat |
Recital |
5:00 PM
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| Jason Henery |
2021 ISB Solo Competition Winner Recital |
8:00 PM
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| Vincent Dupont |
2021 ISB Jazz Competition Winner Recital |
9:00 PM
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023 |
| Andrea Beyer |
Music for Social Change - what we can do and how to get started |
9:00 AM
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| Brian Casey |
Bass in the Big Easy: A Survey of Oral Histories from Influential New Orleans Bassists of the Early 20th Century |
9:00 AM
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| Dustin Williams |
Bass Maker's Sound-Off Competition |
9:00 AM
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| Kieran Hanlon |
Implementing George Vance's Progressive Repertoire for the Double Bass in a Collegiate Studio |
10:00 AM
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| Douglas Mapp |
Eve Beglarian: A Murmur in the Trees |
10:00 AM
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| Melissa Straus |
Bass as an Instrument of Healing: Exploring the double bass in the healing arts (Co-Presenter: Lloyd Goldstein) |
10:00 AM
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| Yung-chiao Wei |
Uncover Effortless Ways of Playing the Double Bass Beethoven Project |
10:00 AM
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| Han-Jui Chen |
Compositional innovations and Performing strategies of composers of Chinese heritage |
11:00 AM
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| Christie Echols |
Double Bass and Ableton Live - Techniques for live electronic Improvisation |
11:00 AM
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| Caroline Emery |
Growing a Bass Program |
11:00 AM
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| Jacob Warren |
Rhythmic and Groove Bowing |
11:00 AM
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| Kristin Korb |
Sing and Play Lab |
1:00 PM
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| Valentina Ciardelli |
Recital: Music of Zappa, Puccini and Ciardelli |
2:00 PM
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| Peter Dominguez |
Bass Masterclass |
2:00 PM
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| Rodrigo Mata Alvarez |
Sones de la Tierra |
2:00 PM
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| Jesse Mogale |
Heritage From An African Continent |
2:00 PM
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| Jamie Ousley |
East Meets West--Jazz & Classical Bass Duet (Co-Presenter: Ryohei Morita) |
2:00 PM
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| Maggie Urquhart |
Rediscovering a distant sound world; a presentation on two violones |
2:00 PM
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| Kate Alexandra |
Putting the Us in Music: Six New Works by Women Composers |
3:00 PM
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| Evan Davenport |
Luthier's Track: That Which Touches the Strings |
3:00 PM
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| Hilliard Greene |
Negro Spirituals from the Underground Railroad - When Folksongs Bring Freedom |
3:00 PM
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| Kris Monson |
The Role of the Bass in Bossa Nova |
3:00 PM
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| Joseph Straker |
Double Bass Audition Excerpts and Pieces |
3:00 PM
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| Fausto Borem |
A Panorama of Brazilian Music from the 18th to the 21st Centuries |
4:00 PM
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| Robert Hurst |
Up Close with Robert Hurst |
4:00 PM
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| Robin Kesselman |
Masterclass |
4:00 PM
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| Krista Kopper |
Free Improvisation with Damon Smith |
4:00 PM
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| Mark Morton |
Mark Morton performs Pilar Aguilar's Paisajes Latinos 1 & 2 |
4:00 PM
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| Jessica Valls |
Broadway Bass Voice |
4:00 PM
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| Shigefumi Tomita |
Celebrating Bird: A Tribute To Charlie Parker |
5:00 PM
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| Martin Wind |
Martin Wind's New York Bass Quartet: Air |
5:00 PM
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| Nina DeCesare |
Headliner Recital |
8:00 PM
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| Marion Hayden |
Headliner Recital |
9:00 PM
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Thursday, June 8, 2023 |
| Caroline Doane |
Intentional Tuning: An Exploration in Bass Balance |
9:00 AM
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| Mitch Moehring |
Luthier's Track: The Language of Tone: Describing Sonic Characteristics of the Double Bass (Co-Presenter: Seth Kimmel) |
9:00 AM
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| Renata Soares Caceres |
Fundamentals of Paul Rolland’s Double Bass Pedagogy (co-presenter with Michael Fanelli) |
9:00 AM
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| David Baker |
Early Jazz to Country Swing: How to Teach Yourself Slap Technique on Upright Bass |
10:00 AM
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| Lynn Hannings |
Luthier's Track: Luthiery Alternative Materials |
10:00 AM
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| Shanti Nachtergaele |
The Early History of the Double Bassist |
10:00 AM
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| Kathryn Schulmeister |
Research Competition Presentation (Co-Presenter: Mark Elliot Bergman) |
10:00 AM
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| Jeremy Baguyos |
The T-shaped Professional: Teaching the Teaching the Other Bow, Other Genre, & Other Related Stuff |
11:00 AM
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| Paul Ellison |
Masterclass |
11:00 AM
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| Randall Kertz |
Injury Prevention for the Educator: Things Your Students (and you) Need to Know |
11:00 AM
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| Isaline Leloup |
The Viennese violone: A |
11:00 AM
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| Mariechen Meyer |
Yellow Wood Forest Trails |
11:00 AM
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| Andi Beckendorf |
Stick To It: Strategies for Practicing Developing Bow Holds |
2:00 PM
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| Susan Cahill |
Susan Cahill and Jon Wilkerson Present |
2:00 PM
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| Stephan Crump |
Stephan Crump - solo from tunes to the moon - performance and workshop on improvisation and feel |
2:00 PM
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| Mark Dresser |
Bass Forward: Adaptations, Extensions, Augmentations |
2:00 PM
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| Sam Suggs |
Sam Suggs - Recital |
2:00 PM
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| Philip Alejo |
Goin' Home: A Tribute to Diana Gannett |
3:00 PM
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| Rachel Calin |
Masterclass |
3:00 PM
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| Lloyd Goldstein |
Music, Life and Death: Music and Reflections on Fifteen Years as a Certified Music Practitioner |
3:00 PM
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| Robert Kassinger |
Jazz Recital with Rob Kassinger |
3:00 PM
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| Omar Martinez-Sandoval |
The Mexican double bass catalog |
3:00 PM
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| Tracy Rowell |
Rabbath, Bach, and Proto |
4:00 PM
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| Codi Takacs |
The Walkable Bass |
4:00 PM
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| Louis Levitt |
Sybarite5: Rite on Time |
5:00 PM
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| Tom Knific |
Michigan Bass Night |
8:00 PM
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Friday, June 9, 2023 |
| Carlos Gaviria |
To B sharp or not to B sharp: Strategies and Techniques to Improve Intonation in Young Bassists |
9:00 AM
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| Paul Robinson |
Practicing with Efficiency: Making the Most of Revised Etudes |
9:00 AM
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| Garry Wasserman |
Luthier's Track: American Bass Makers, An Update |
9:00 AM
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| Jeremy Baguyos |
ISB Composition Competition Recital |
10:00 AM
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| Carlo De Rosa |
The Early Development of Afro-Latin Jazz Bass through the work of Israel |
10:00 AM
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| Hans Sturm |
75 Years on 4 Strings: The Life and Music of François Rabbath |
10:00 AM
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| Christie Echols |
The Modification of Oneself for bass, vocals, electronics, and multimedia |
11:00 AM
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| Kate Jones |
Group Class for Every Bass Studio |
11:00 AM
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| Mimi Jones |
DEI Conversation |
11:00 AM
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| Ali Yazdanfar |
Achieving your Full Musical Potential: A Masterclass with Ali Kian Yazdanfar |
11:00 AM
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| Miles Brown |
Miles Brown's Middle Game |
2:00 PM
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| Frank Proto |
Masterclass |
2:00 PM
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| Alexandre Ritter |
Lecture Recital - Sconcerto by Armando Trovajoli |
2:00 PM
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| Robert Sabin |
Andy Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band – Traditions and Revelations |
2:00 PM
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| Desmond Bratton |
Desmondo Eclectica- Songs Along the Path |
3:00 PM
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| Nina DeCesare |
Masterclass |
3:00 PM
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| Pascale Delache-Feldman |
Duo Cello e Basso- Music of the Americas |
3:00 PM
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| Elinore Morris |
Luthier's Track: Drawing the Double Bass |
3:00 PM
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| Jorge Roeder |
Up Close with Jorge Roeder |
3:00 PM
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| Gregg August |
Dragonetti, I Apologize |
4:00 PM
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| Edward Shillitoe |
Luthier's Track: Bass Bows for Historically-Informed Performances |
4:00 PM
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| Szymon Marciniak |
Czech Dream: The Music of Frantisek Hertl |
5:00 PM
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| Victor Wooten |
Bass Extremes (Co-Presenter: Steve Bailey) |
8:00 PM
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Saturday, June 10, 2023 |
| Susan Hagen |
For ME? (Co-Presenter: David Heyes) |
10:00 AM
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| Ed Mingo |
Luthier's Track: Orchestral String Construction |
10:00 AM
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| John Schimek |
How to Successfully Audition for College |
10:00 AM
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| Kevin Brown |
Bach/Orchestral Masterclass |
11:00 AM
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| Chris Fitzgerald |
Organic Harmony and Changing Tones - A simple approach to harmony for melodic improvisation |
11:00 AM
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| Betsy Soukup |
Betsy Soukup, Begin Again: Songs for bass and voice |
11:00 AM
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| Scott Dixon |
Rational Tonality: Drones for Better Ensemble Intonation |
1:30 PM
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| Claus Freudenstein |
Claus Freudenstein & Friends present |
1:30 PM
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| Robin Kesselman |
Bow Speed Geography |
1:30 PM
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| Braun Khan |
UTB3: The Utah Bass Trio |
1:30 PM
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| Wesley Thompson |
Young Bassists Concert |
2:30 PM
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| Ali Yazdanfar |
Sayeh-Roshan, (Chiaroscuro) New Persian Works for Bass and Piano |
5:00 PM
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| Jorge Roeder |
Jorge Roeder, bass & Julian Lage, guitar |
8:00 PM
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