ISB 2025 Convention Presenters

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.

The ISB Welcomes Our 2023 Headliners

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Headliner concerts at Michigan Theater unless noted otherwise.

(Artists subject to change)

Full Schedule

The following is a tentative list of convention presenters, subject to change. Click on a Presentation Title to see more information about the presenter and their presentation.

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Name	Presentation Title	Time
David Baker	Ditch the Amp: Ways to Develop a Resonant Pizzicato Sound on Double Bass
Andrew Binder	The New Standards Method: Simandl through Standards
Andrew Brown	Acoustic Measurement Techniques and the Double Bass
Brian Casey	George Morrow: Quiet Brilliance in the Shadow of Masters
Sean Casey	Teaching Orchestra Excerpts to High Schoolers: A Progressive Guide to Orchestral Excerpts
Maggie Cox	Focal Dystonia and the bass
Benjamin Crofut	Fixing problems before the lesson/audition (resolving technical frustrations through creative left-hand practice)
Brian Del Bianco	Ears To Your Health! How hearing loss looms over the shoulder of every bassist, what to look for, and how to keep it from dropping the curtain on your career.
Christie Echols	You've graduated, what's next? Building a music career and community
Caroline Emery	40 years of the Yorke Mini Bass Project.
George Fahlund	Private Lessons: Private teaching as a profession things we wished someone had told us in music school.
Sarah Favinger	Developing Professional Freelance Skills Through High School & Collegiate Ensembles
Chris Fitzgerald	Calibration: Designing a daily technical workout to meet your specific musical needs and goals
Marcos Machado	Tao of Bass Volume 2: Innovative Approaches to Scales and Arpeggios
Gaelen McCormick	Discovering Our Pedagogical History
Shanti Nachtergaele	A History of Double Bass Humor
Paul Nemeth	Bowings in the Manuscripts of Bach’s Cello Suites
Robert Sabin	Thelonious Monk - From the Bottom Up
John Shiu	The Six Figure Musician: Navigating a Successful Freelance, Teaching, and Entrepreneurial Bass Career
David Spischak	Karl Trautsch Complete Edition
Gary Upton	The Art and Business of Building Your Dream with Gary Upton