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Dustin Art Williams received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Abilene Christian University with a double major in classical guitar and double bass, and a Master of Music Education from West Texas A&M University, where he studied with David Murray. Dustin served as assistant director of the ISB’s Young Bassist Program at conventions in 1997, 1999 and 2001, and as editor of the Young Bassists Page for Bass World magazine from 1996 to1999. After teaching classroom orchestra for six years in McAllen, Texas, Dustin moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he spent the next four years at the Violin Making School of America. After graduating and a year working with bass maker Jim Ham in Victoria, BC, Canada, he moved his family to Nashville, Tennessee, where he opened Williams Fine Violins in 2004. Dustin founded the ISB’s Bass Makers Competition in 2003 and has served as its chair since then. At the 2015 ISB Convention in Fort Collins, Colorado, Dustin helped launch the Build-A-Bass project with Paul Hart. He received the ISB’s Special Recognition Award for Friend of the Bass in 2011. Recently, Dustin has been instrumental in the founding of a new orchestra in Nashville, the Two Rivers Community Orchestra.
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