Curriculum Vitae

RECENT RESPONSIBILITIES:

     Freelance Bassist, all styles, 1992-present

     Principal Bass, Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Yakima WA, 2016-present

     Tenured Section Bass, Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Yakima WA, 2004-2016

     Tenured Section Bass, Tacoma Symphony, Tacoma WA, 2007-present

     Substitute Section Bass, Spokane Symphony, Spokane WA, 2008-present

     Principal Bass, Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle, WA, 2005-2008

     Principal Bass, University of Washington Symphony, 2004-2008

     Assistant Professor of the Double Bass, U. of Montana, 2016-2019

     Bass Instructor, Edmonds Community College, 2016-present

     Bass, String Orchestra of the Rockies, Missoula, MT, 2017-present

FESTIVALS:

     Tacoma Jazz & Blues Festival, Tacoma, WA

     Jazz Port Townsend, Port Townsend, WA

     Lucid One Year Anniversary U-District Jazz Walk, Seattle, WA

     Kenai Penninsula Orchestra Summer Festival, Homer and Kenai, AK

     Verbier Festival, Verbier, Switzerland

     International Festival Institute at Round Top, TX

     Mahler Festival, Seattle WA

     Montreux Jazz Festival

     North Sea Jazz Festival

CONDUCTORS:

     Peter Eros

     Lawrence Golan

     Lawrence Isaacson

     Sarah Ioannides

     Grant Llewellyn

     Heiichiro Ohyama

     Charles Olivieri-Munroe

     Adam Stern

     Gregory Vajda

     Pascal Verrot

     Brooke Creswell

MASTER CLASSES:

     Thomas Martin

     James VanDemark

     Jordan Anderson

     Gary Karr

     Christopher Brown

     Toru Takemitsu

     Ani Kavafian

     Mark Dresser

     Bob Moses

     Sam Rivers

     Dave Holland

     Bob Brookmeyer

     Donovan Stokes

PRINCIPAL TEACHERS:

     Barry Lieberman, double bass

     Cecil McBee, double bass

     Phil Sparks, double Bass

     John Lockwood, double bass

     Doug Miller, double bass

     Robert Ceely, composition

     Janice Giteck, composition

OTHER NOTABLE TEACHERS:

     George Russell, jazz theory, harmony, composition, performance (LCCTO)

     Ran Blake, Ear training, melodic memory

     Joseph Gabriel Maneri, microtonal music and comprovisation

     Daniel Nalesso, Sophrology

     Bob Moses, Moseology

     James VanDermark, Double Bass

EDUCATION:

    University of Washington, Doctorate of Musical Arts in String Performance, 2010

    University of Washington, Master of Music in String Performance, 2005

    New England Conservatory, Bachelor of Musical Arts in Jazz Studies, 2000

    Garfield High School, Seattle WA, g. 1994

          Princeton High School, Princeton NJ, 1991-1993

AFFILIATIONS:

     ASCAP

     AFM local 76-493, Seattle, WA (formerly local 62, Trenton, NJ)

     International Society of Bassists

     College Music Society

Bren Plummer, bassist and composer

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