Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put ...

George Speed of the TSO shows us how the double bass works and its role in a performance. Violetta "Vi" Vibrato meets George Speed who plays the double bass for Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. Vi ...

A majestic yet underappreciated instrument will get its due in CPAC studio in the Far North’s first major orchestral performance of the year. The North Queensland Chamber Orchestra will feature the ...

ATLANTA — When Jane Little first saw the double bass in her teens, she was horrified. "I thought now why would any girl want to play that big thing," she said. But the double bass is the instrument ...

Usually, the instrument known as the double bass, or contrabass, which sits in the very last row of the string section of an orchestra, is considered an instrument that simply supplies the harmonic ...

SHE is a tall, curvy, Italian and the older she gets, the more coveted she becomes. Meet the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 400-year-old bass and the man who plucks her strings. “There’s nothing like ...

Retired co-principal of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra double bass section, Roy Benson, was awarded a trophy and £1000 in recognition of his contribution to UK musical life. Nominated by his fellow ...

ATLANTA - Jane Little, a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since the group's founding during World War II, has died at age 87 after collapsing on stage. Little collapsed Sunday during a ...

For the first time in musical history, eight double basses are soloists in a new orchestral composition. The Australian World Orchestra (AWO) will perform the world premiere of The Witching Hour, a ...

Our bass students study in depth the art of solo, orchestral and chamber music double bass performance. During their time at the College of Music, students focus on rich, resonant and lyrical tone ...

But despite its ­essential nature, the bass isn’t often featured as a solo instrument. That’s all about to change thanks to one of Australia’s most popular and versatile composers, Elena Kats-Chernin.

Jan Gracie Mulcahy became the first woman to play double bass for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra despite growing up in poverty, surviving sexual abuse at the hands of her grandmother and losing her ...