Undergraduate Double Bass
Undergraduate Double Bass
As a student in the undergraduate double bass program at University of North Carolina School of the Arts, you will be part of a vibrant school of artists and musicians committed to the long-term development and mastery of your instrument.
Bachelor of Music
The conservatory experience engages you in weekly private lessons with your teacher who will help you build the foundations of your craft and explore your artistic choices. Of equal importance are your weekly studio master classes, where, through collaboration with your peers, you will perform and analyze performances, learning to see yourself through the work of your colleagues. These studio classes, along with your many performances, aim to truly make you at home on the stage.
Performance opportunities at UNCSA are many – chamber groups and large ensembles, performances in community venues and recitals. At UNCSA, you will become part of a close community of double bassists and artists of all disciplines that fosters excellence and prepares you for a life in today’s world of music.
First–Second Years
In your first two years of undergraduate double bass degree study, you will begin
private lessons, master classes and orchestra or ensemble performances while studying
the foundations of music theory, aural and keyboard skills and musical styles. You
will pursue liberal arts courses in English, math or science, and the humanities. In your freshman through junior years,
you are also required to attend a weekly Performance Hour, where music students perform
and experience different musical genres, styles and instruments.
Third–Fourth Years
Your studies will continue in your third and fourth years with additional liberal
arts courses, music history and career development classes. In Year Four, you will
fulfill your capstone graduation requirement, a full recital at both a juried recital
hearing and a public performance.
Careers
Graduates of the UNCSA string program perform in the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Dresden Philharmonic and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. They serve as associate concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony, assistant principal cellist of the Baltimore Symphony and as concertmaster of regional orchestras in Tulsa, OK, Fayetteville, AR, and Chattanooga, TN. They perform in the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, the Miami String Quartet, the Sofia String Quartet from Bulgaria, the Grammy-nominated Radamés Gnattali Quartetfrom Brazil and have performed throughout the world as members of the Miró Quartet and the Melos Quartet.
Our alumni also also teach at major conservatories and universities, including the University of Michigan, University of Northern Colorado, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, University of Virginia, the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.
