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Meet Jason Heath
Double bassist Dean Ferrell is a performer that you’ve got to see to believe. Putting a label on what Dean does in simply impossible–the best I can do is to call his performances historically informed alternate tuning performance art.
Dean did an hour-long performance at the 2007 ISB Convention featuring music from Captain Tobias Hume. His performance from this year’s 2009 performance is titled “Ode to Per Questa.” Enough said–check it out (approx. 45 minutes):
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More Dean Ferrell available here.
Jason Heath has written 12 articles in BMM.
Jason Heath is an active double bass performer, educator, blogger, and podcaster. A native of South Dakota, Jason began playing with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and Sioux City Symphony Orchestra at the age of fifteen. He serves as co-principal bass of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra, assistant principal bass of the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra and as a section bass member of the Elgin Symphony, and has also performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Grant Park Symphony, Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago Sinfonietta, Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, and Joffrey Ballet Orchestra. Jason has toured internationally with the American-Russian Young Artists Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and he has also performed with the Spoleto USA Festival, Britt Music Festival, and Des Moines Metro Opera. He has served on the bass faculty of Trinity International University and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Jason is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Society of Bassists, and he actively writes about the classical music world and the double bass. His work has recently been featured in Double Bassist magazine, and his daily articles and observations about the classical music business can be found on his blog at doublebassblog.org. This blog also includes stories about life as a freelance double bassist, resources for performing musicians and classical music fans, and educational advice for music performance students.
Jason is also the host of Contrabass Conversations, a weekly podcast about the double bass. This show can be found at contrabassconversations.com, and it features interviews and performances from prominent double bass performers and educators. He has two degrees in double bass performance from Northwestern University and was the recipient of a Civic Orchestra of Chicago fellowship for graduate study.
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I knew Dean in the early days. He’s a genius with the bass as well other issues. . He can play Paganini violin concertos on the bass. Please ask him to contact me as I have a question for him. It is “What did he mean the last time he signed off? It’s bad here too. The world news doesn’t do it justice. But I feel the sentiment.