2022 ISB Virtual Bass Festival ~ June 10-11, 2022
We had so much fun getting together last year, we thought we’d bring our ISB family together again for a 2-day festival, Friday & Saturday June 10-11.
Registration is now open. Member registration is just $50, full time student members register for only $25. Regular non-member registration of $75 and non-member full-time student registration of $50 include a year’s digital membership in the ISB. Register now to enjoy all this:
- Flexible daytime schedule! Watch what you want, when you want during and after the convention week.
- Keynote address by John Clayton
- Live Zoom chats with presenters
- Virtual exhibit hall, make one-to-one appointments with your favorite shops and makers
- Tributes to Teppo Hauta-Aho and Inez Wyrick
- Celebration honoring the ISB’s executive director emeritus Jeff Bradetich
- Connect via live chat during evening “ISB After Hours” nightly hangs
Whether you’re a current member, lapsed, or never been a member before, we’ve got a registration option for you! Register by Wednesday, June 1, 2022 to ensure you can attend the concerts, seminars, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, panel discussions, masterclasses, etc.
Here is a list of bassists who will appear (subject to change):
- Bass ensembles, with the Bass Gang, Bassinova & Bassists with Boobs
- Gary Karr celebrating Bottesini’s 200th birthday with Chris West, and interviewing performer, educator and humanitarian Richard ‘Dobbs’ Hartshorne
- Giuseppe Ettorre
- Thierry Barbé
- Uxia Martinez Botana
- Pablo Aslan, Tango!
- Petru Iuga
- Rufus Reid, Jazz Masterclass
- Marion Hayden, Mingus Centennial!
- Eric Hochberg
- Mimi Jones
- Aaron Olguin
- Esra Gül
- Ron Carter, A Musical Life, interview by Steve Bailey
- Susan Hagan, Bass Warm-ups
- Zanielle Britz, Bass in South Africa
- Caitlyn Kamminga, Bass in Trinidad
- DaXun Zhang, Bass in China
- Joel Quarrington, Bass in Canada
- Fausto Borem, Bass in Brazil
- Scott Dixon, Pitch and the Double Bass
- Rob Nairn, Early Music
- Brian Perry, Orchestral Auditions
- Jeremy Kurtz-Harris, Orchestra Masterclass
- Gilles Duhaut, Bows
- Trevor Davis, Ask a Luthier
- Robert Black, Bassists as Composers
- Lynn Hannings, Pernambuco in Crisis
- Doan Brian Roessler, Body and Bass
- Rebecca Lawrence, Bassists for Black Composers
- Claus Freudenstein, Mini-bass Program