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    Double Bass Mostly Mozart Principal results

    Hello all, I just saw that it hasn't been posted that Andrew Trombley won the position of Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra! Congrats to Andrew!
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    Double Bass Study at SUNY Stony Brook!

    Hello! My name is Blake Hinson, and I am Assistant Principal Bass of the New York Philharmonic. I am messaging because I have a true love of teaching and would love to share it with you! At Stony Brook University, the sky is the limit on what you can accomplish. Beginning this last semester, I...
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    Double Bass Study with New York Philharmonic bassist Blake Hinson at Stony Brook University!

    The Music Department at Stony Brook University is pleased to announce the appointment of bassist Blake Hinson to the Stony Brook faculty beginning in Fall, 2016. Mr. Hinson joined the bass section of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 2012, before which he was a member of the Grand Rapids...
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    Double Bass whats going on in this video?

    Something seems off
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    Double Bass Double Bass Audition Winners

    Bummer about the no hire, but congrats to the finalists!
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    Double Bass Fred Zimmerman's Contemporary Concept of Bowing?

    I use this book fairly regularly, but more so, the method it indicates for separating right arm from left in orchestral play, this book shows how important the right hand is( it's very easy in a tough passage to assume the left hand is failing, when the right is the culprit)
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    Double Bass practice with no/very small amount, of rosin?

    Use lots of rosin if you're talkin orchestral play
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    Double Bass Detroit (here we go again)

    Not with the met!
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    Double Bass Work In New York

    I would contact some of the personnel managers in town, try and play for the principal players, you could be put on a sub list....?
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    Is 25 too old to become a professional classical bassist?

    25 is on the later side, it usually takes at least 5-8 years to start feeling like you know what you are doing.... You will need to study for a while and put in serious time, which means working full time elsewhere is going to be a challenge. But, there are individuals who have started late and...
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    Double Bass Any jobs this month?

    Shen Yun Performing Arts Orchestra Shen Yun Performing Arts will be holding open auditions for its orchestras on the following dates at Shen Yun Headquarters in New York: June 12-16, 2013 Double Bass Please prepare the following: • First movement of a standard bass concerto • Bach: one...
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    Double Bass need a suggestion for a conservatory audition

    There are two big ginastera solos, one of which is very doable and is regularly asked, variations concertante and the other which is the ginastera concerto for orch or something....that one is not a smart move for college auditions or any audition, better to make a good showing on something that...
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    Double Bass kansas city?

    Congrats to Evan! Advancing at a gig like KC does deserve some kudos! Lets drop the negativity!
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    Double Bass GRS

    Chris Hamlen won! And Emily Honeyman named runner up!
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    Double Bass BSO

    Super finals were Nicky schwartz, Tom Vandyck, and Charlie Nilles
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