ISB 2025 Convention Presenter — Maggie Urquhart

Margaret Urquhart is an established performing artist, and teacher on the violone. She is the first bassist of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and teaches at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She has performed with acclaimed early music ensembles such as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the English Concert, and the Ricercar Consort.

Margaret began playing the double bass at the age of eleven in England. She studied bass at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Anthony Woodrow, and viola da gamba with Anneke Pols. She has recorded and given concerts world-wide in the early music and contemporary scenes, and has given violone master classes in China, the USA, and across Europe. She is presently completing a PhD on the violone in Bach’s music at the Orpheus Institute and Leiden University. She owns three original early basses: a Gagliano 16’ bass, an 8’ Krouchdaler, and an 8’ Busch, and performs on four stringed 16’ tuning, Viennese tuning, and various 8’ violone tunings.