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#21
Hey :))

Thanks for them all. I am so happy there are so many women playing db. It is really astonishing. I am stiil here a kind of a phenomenon... I hope that this situation in Poland will change in the future.

I attached 2 photos especially for you :) One is an artistic version of my db and the second shows me and my db natural.

Thank you one again for your help.

bests from Gdansk
malgosia
 

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#22
There is a woman DB player on the front cover of the latest issue of Double Bassist magazine!

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Chi chi Nwanoku - I've got her CD of Bass Concertos (Concerti) as well - nice stuff!

I've been to classes/workshops with 2 Jazz tutors who are women, who play DB - that's Paul Gardiner, who was mentioned :

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..and Alison Rayner :

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..click on the DB scroll...;) to hear some of her playing!
 
#25
There's also Jennifer Godfrey in the Seattle Symphony. Ju-Fang Liu is principal bass in the Indianapolis Symphony. Jennifer Downing in the Gothenburg Symphony. Kristen Bruya will be new to the Nashville Symphony. Carolyn White is assistant principal in the St. Louis Symphony as well as Sarah Hogan is in the section in the St. Louis Symphony. That's all I can think of at the moment, but we're out there!
 
#30
anthem274 said:
The legendary Orin O'brien hasn't been mentioned...
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MYOWNDAMNSELF said:
Or Mary Ann McSweeney or Melissa Slocum or Nikki Parrot or Noriko Ueda (for jazz bassists) or Joelle Leandre or Orin O'Brien or Linda MacKnight or June Rothenburg....
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3rd post in, you should try actually READING the posts sometimes....
 
#31
If you're doing research and want info about young girls starting out, it seems to be that about 40-50% of the young (Elementary, 9-12 yrs old) bassists starting out in this region are girls. Can't say any names, because of confidentiality laws, but PM me if interested in exploring that angle . . .

Don't we have at least a few female bass students in the forum here? It seems like that's even more important than the ones who are already big time.

btw, Ed, you forgot about Mary Ann McSweeney. Or how about Orin O'Brien?:D
 
#33
noisemaker said:
If you're doing research and want info about young girls starting out, it seems to be that about 40-50% of the young (Elementary, 9-12 yrs old) bassists starting out in this region are girls. Can't say any names, because of confidentiality laws, but PM me if interested in exploring that angle . . .
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Thanks for this interesting message. Here the situation is similar. In the elementary and high schools most of the students are girls. I suppose that it is a sociological phenomenon of our times.

From the other hand lately I've found an article in a German magazine about women in orchestras. I am shocked...
Let me quote you just the numbers :

"... Beginnen wir mit einigen vergleichenden Daten zwischen Europa und den USA. Hier der Frauenanteil in Orchester in vier Ländern inklusive Ost- und Westdeutschland:
USA 36%
Großbritannien 30 %
Ostdeutschland 16 %
Westdeutschland 16%
Der Frauenanteil in Spitzenorchestern:
Deutschland 11%
USA 25 %

Es muß außerdem erwähnt werden, daß viele Orchester Mitteleuropas nur einen Alibi-Frauenanteil haben, wie folgende Statistik zeigt: OrchesterMänner Frauen Prozent an Frauen
Wiener Philharmoniker 149 - 1 (<1%)
Wiener Symphoniker 124 - 3 (2%)
Tschechische Philharmonie 120 - 4 (3%)
Staatskapelle Dresden 144 - 5 (3%)
Berliner Philharmoniker 120 - 7 (5%)
Dresdner Philharmonie 117 - 6 (5%)
Gewandhaus Leipzig 193 - 13 (7%) ..."

What do you think about it?

bests malgosia
 
#35
Austria is a different question - here's a recent BBC article :

"The Vienna Philharmonic's famous New Year's Day concert set tongues wagging this year with the appearance of a female viola player - Ursula Plaichinger.

The press reported that the orchestra had finally appointed its first female musician, 6 years after it was forced to drop its all male rule. In fact Plaichinger isn't a member of the orchestra but she is the only woman to have passed their audition process.
David Gallagher has covered the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Day concert for the BBC for the past 10 years and reports to us on the present situation there with regards to women musicians.
Maggie Cotton, retired percussionist with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Rhian Samuel, Professor of Music, City University, London, join Jenni to discuss whether sexism in orchestras is a problem in Britain too.

IAWM: The Situation of Women Musicians in Austria"
 
#37
Malgos said:
Thanks for this interesting message. Here the situation is similar. In the elementary and high schools most of the students are girls. I suppose that it is a sociological phenomenon of our times.

From the other hand lately I've found an article in a German magazine about women in orchestras. I am shocked...
Let me quote you just the numbers :

"... Beginnen wir mit einigen vergleichenden Daten zwischen Europa und den USA. Hier der Frauenanteil in Orchester in vier Ländern inklusive Ost- und Westdeutschland:
USA 36%
Großbritannien 30 %
Ostdeutschland 16 %
Westdeutschland 16%
Der Frauenanteil in Spitzenorchestern:
Deutschland 11%
USA 25 %

Es muß außerdem erwähnt werden, daß viele Orchester Mitteleuropas nur einen Alibi-Frauenanteil haben, wie folgende Statistik zeigt: OrchesterMänner Frauen Prozent an Frauen
Wiener Philharmoniker 149 - 1 (<1%)
Wiener Symphoniker 124 - 3 (2%)
Tschechische Philharmonie 120 - 4 (3%)
Staatskapelle Dresden 144 - 5 (3%)
Berliner Philharmoniker 120 - 7 (5%)
Dresdner Philharmonie 117 - 6 (5%)
Gewandhaus Leipzig 193 - 13 (7%) ..."

What do you think about it?

bests malgosia
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I guess what you could surmise is that while many girls are beginning study at a young age, not many women are "graduating" to professional careers - especially in continental Europe.

I think you've got yourself a nice research project there - how are you thinking about carrying it out?
 

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