Bowen Ha joined the San Francisco Symphony at the start of the 2024–25 season after training at Juilliard with Timothy Cobb and Harold Robinson, and appearing as a substitute with major orchestras. Born in Shanghai, Bowen’s path ran from piano to cello and finally to bass, through Interlochen, the Shanghai Conservatory’s affiliated program, and Juilliard.… Continue reading 1145: Bowen Ha on his audition process
Category: Interview Guests
1144: John Goldsby on Big Band Bass
John Goldsby returns to the podcast to celebrate Big Band Bass, a project that spotlights the double bass at the front of the band alongside the legendary WDR Big Band and arranger/conductor Bob Mintzer. We talk about what it felt like to close a 30-year run in one of the world’s rare full-time jazz ensemble… Continue reading 1144: John Goldsby on Big Band Bass
1143: Professional Instruments Aren’t Luggage with Valentina Scheldhofen Ciardelli
Valentina Scheldhofen Ciardelli , double bass professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and an active performer/educator, returns to the podcast to talk about a project that goes way beyond the practice room: fixing the chaos of traveling with large instruments. Check out Valentina’s work and latest updates on her website . We… Continue reading 1143: Professional Instruments Aren’t Luggage with Valentina Scheldhofen Ciardelli
1142: Slow Water, Deep Grooves with Stephan Crump
Stephan Crump is a Brooklyn-based bassist, composer, and educator whose work moves fluidly between groove, spacious sound-worlds, and collective improvisation. We dig into the making of Slow Water, the magnetism of deep feel, and how growing up in Memphis—and spending a lot of life near the Mississippi—shaped the way Stephan hears music as ecology, storytelling,… Continue reading 1142: Slow Water, Deep Grooves with Stephan Crump
1141 – Gut Strings and Time Travel – Michal Bylina on Early Music
Michal Bylina is a Polish bassist and composer whose work bridges early music performance and new music for the instrument. In this conversation, Michal shares how a love of the past pulled them toward gut strings, Baroque style, and the Vienna bass tradition, plus the path from studying in Kraków to a year studying in… Continue reading 1141 – Gut Strings and Time Travel – Michal Bylina on Early Music