Susanna Klein has been working on a really cool project in the past few years: Practizma. This is a journal that takes you through 16 weeks of guided practice, with goal setting, reflection prompt, action challenges, and journal pages to track your practice. In addition to this very cool system, we talk about Susanna’s background,… Continue reading 707: Susanna Klein on Practizma
Category: Interview Guests
706: Tom Walley on staying active during quarantine
Tom Walley has certainly been keeping busy during the quarantine, publishing a ton content on his Instagram and YouTube, including his arrangement of the Adagio from Mahler’s 9th Symphony with his fellow London Philharmonic Orchestra section members. Tom and I talk about this recording and his other quarantine projects, canceled tours, moving out of London… Continue reading 706: Tom Walley on staying active during quarantine
705: Hans Roelofsen and Rudolf Senn on bass duo adventures
I’ve been following along with the musical adventures of Hans Roelofsen and Rudolph Senn for years. They have toured the world as a bass duo, with 15 trips to the United States alone. Throughout these trips, they have collected some fantastic stories. We dig into these stories, how they came to play as a duo,… Continue reading 705: Hans Roelofsen and Rudolf Senn on bass duo adventures
701: Carlos Barriento and Opportunity Music Project
The whole world is adjusting to new ways of interaction, and the world of music advocacy is no exception. Jessica Garand’s Opportunity Music Project has been doing a particularly good job of adapting their El Sistema-style program to these current times, with their Sponsor a Student program and many other initiatives and offerings. In today’s… Continue reading 701: Carlos Barriento and Opportunity Music Project
699: Marcos Machado on Tao of Bass Volume 2
photo credit: Discover Double Bass Marcos Machado shows no signs of slowing down even during the pandemic! He recently joined the Discover Double Bass teaching team and released a course in the fall of 2019 titled Integral Technique. This course is based on the extensive research and experimentation Marcos has done in fingerings through his… Continue reading 699: Marcos Machado on Tao of Bass Volume 2