NEWS OF NOTE
Renaud Garcia-Fons, who wowed his ISB convention audience at Oklahoma City University in June, returns to the U.S. for appearances in California in October. He will appear with guitarist Antonio "Kiko" Ruiz and percussionist Pascal Rollando: October 5-6, two shows each evening at 7:30 and 9:30 PM, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Samueli Theater, Costa Mesa, CA; October 7, two shows at 8 & 9:30 PM, The Jazz Bakery, Culver City, CA; and October 10-13, 8 PM, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, University of California, Davis, CA.
The third World Bass Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, Irena Olkiewicz, director, is scheduled for August 10-17, 2008. Mark your calendars and watch the ISB website for more details as they are published.
ISB member Donovan Stokes is the new professor of double bass at the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in Winchester, VA. His wife, ISB member and former ISB board member Inez Wyrick has already been hired by McClean (VA) High School, and will be affiliated with the pre-college Arts Academy of Winchester, VA. Congratulations, Donovan and Inez!
Jorge Roeder, winner of the Scott LaFaro Prize for the jazz division of the 2007 ISB Double Bass Competition, will be touring Italy in November as part of the Kenny Werner Trio.
For a look at the famed Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, go to
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2t3al_gtltornt9_music. Check out the bass
spinning!
John and Marian Casey have formed the Twin Cities Bass Club in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota metroplex. For more information go to www.TwinCitiesBassClub.org.
Jeffrey Weisner, professor of double bass at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, sends word that the double bass department has a new group blog, PBDB. It's a little corner of the Internet to sound off on all things bass at Peabody, and will feature posts from all the bass faculty as well as some student guest bloggers. Visit the blog at http://peabodydoublebass.blogspot.com.
Listen to Jeremy Kurtz, principal bass with the San Diego Symphony, perform John Harbison's "Concerto for Bass Viol and Orchestra" via the Internet, with thanks to local public radio station KPBS. Tune in on October 21, 2007 at 7 PM Pacific Standard Time by going to http://www.kpbs.org/radio. The San Diego Symphony is one of a consortium of 15 orchestras put together by the ISB and participating in a two-year, coast-to-coast series of premiere performances of the Harbison concerto. The new concerto was originally commissioned by the family of ISB Hunter Capoccioni in memory of his father, David.
ISB member John Feeney and composer/clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera will perform D'Rivera's double concerto, "Conversations with Cachao" with the National Symphony of Mexico on November 20, 2007, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and again on November 23rd in Monterrey, Mexico.
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