Golden Gate Bass Camp

JAM - SCAT - MOVE - GROOVE TO THE BIGGEST AND MOST FUN BASS CAMP IN THE COUNTRY! Valley Center for the Performing Arts, Holy Names University, Oakland CA
2009 Faculty & Principal Artists
		Activities Faculty About the Program What To Bring & Travel Details Photos From Previous Bass Camps
Principal Artists
		*David Murray* David Murray started studying bass in the Halifax, Nova Scotia, school system and soon was a private pupil of Gary Karr. He continued his college with Mr. Karr at the Hartt Music School. As a student, he was a fellow at Tanglewood and the Aspen Festival, where he studied with Stuart Sankey. He won the bass concerto competition at Aspen in 1980. In 1988, he won the International Society of Bassists (ISB) Solo Competition in 1988, the first prize being a Carnegie Hall debut in 1990. David has performed and given masterclasses and clinics throughout the USA, Canada, and in Brazil, South Korea, Israel, Scotland, and Holland. He has recorded two solo CD's and has recently completed a video of theater music. He is president of the ISB, having hosted the 2001 ISB convention at Butler University in Indianapolis, where he is an Associate Professor. He has previously taught at West Texas A&M University. He is currently principal bassist with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and Sinfonia da Camera. David appeared at the GGBC last year for the first time and also served as the Winter clinician for the Northern California Bass Club Bass Bash in 2002.
		Robert Hurst Robert L. Hurst III, also known as Bob Hurst, is a highly respected and well recognized composer, bassist, educator, recording artist, and business man. His cultivation into a membership of talented musicians from around the world was fostered by lengthy tours and Grammy Award winning recordings featuring: Dianne Reeves, Charles Lloyd, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Dave Brubeck, Harry Connick Jr., Terrence Blanchard, Tony Williams, Nicholas Payton, Sting, Carl Allen, the legendary Pharaoh Sanders, Chris Botti and is currently touring and recording with Diana Krall. Over the years, Robert Hurst has won five Grammy Awards as well as Top Ten and Five Star recognition around the Globe. Along with his extensive musical background, Robert has also enjoyed directing, arranging, and composing for NBC’s “The Tonight Show”, with Jay Leno, for nearly a decade and in 1995 received an EMMY for his contributing efforts. Robert Hurst has scored original music for several films, including “The Wood”- MTV/ Paramount Productions, “Brown Sugar”- Fox Films, has performed music for “Ocean’s Eleven”, “Ocean’s Twelve”, and for the Concord Records (2006 Grammy Awardees, Jazz Vocal) soundtrack for “Good Night, and Good Luck” on Warner Brothers Films, starring and directed by George Clooney. Robert has been involved with the Education of Jazz and Jazz History from a very young age. During the 1980’s, Robert Hurst was awarded a Presidential Scholarship from President Ronald Reagan, recognizing him as one who would excel and dominate as an Artist. And as perceived by the President, Robert Hurst continues to mold the future with his appointment to the Board of Directors for the John Coltrane Foundation, an organization committed to supporting the next generation of innovative Jazz artists by providing financial assistance through scholarships; and artistic support to music students formally studying Jazz. Robert has recently joined the Faculty at the University Of Michigan’s School Of Music (Ann Arbor), commencing September 2005 as an Associate Professor of The Jazz & Improvisation Department. For several years prior to this appointment, Robert conducted Master Classes for institutions of higher learning including: The Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz at USC, The Dave Brubeck Institute, Stanford Jazz Workshop & Festival, California State University- Northridge, CA and Juilliard, NYC. “Unrehurst” Vol.1, which was truly unrehearsed and “Family Album” Vol. 1 (Bebob Records) a sophisticated Jazz and Multi-Cultural vocal and instrumental collection of Childhood melodies, are the latest releases of Robert Hurst’s Catalog and can be sampled at www.bebobmusic.com.

		Mark Dresser Mark Dresser (1952) is an internationally acclaimed bass player/improviser/composer/interdisciplinary collaborator. A major focus has been extending the sonic and musical possibilities of double bass through the use of unconventional amplification. This is documented in over one hundred recordings including nearly thirty CDs as a soloist, band-leader or co-leader. For eighteen years he lived and worked in New York City. For nine years he was a member of the Anthony Braxton’s Quartet. He has composed music for silent film, video, animation, and sculpture as well as various chamber formations. He was nominated for a 2001 Grammy. He has taught at Princeton University, the New School, and Hampshire College. He joined the faculty of UCSD Music Department as Professor in 2004. www.mark-dresser.commyspace.com/markdresser
		Michael Manring Michael Manring (born June 1960 in Washington, D.C.) is an electric bassist from the San Francisco Bay Area (Northern California). In addition to a long tenure in the 1980's as house bassist for Windham Hill Records, Manring has recorded with Spastic Ink, Michael Hedges, Alex Skolnick (in the bands Skol-Patrol and Attention Deficit, also featuring Tim Alexander from Primus), Larry Kassin, Tom Darter, Steve Morse, David Cullen, Alex de Grassi, Will Ackerman and many other noted musicians. He headlined his own band, Montreux, throughout the 1980s. He has been a member of Yo Miles!, Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith's Miles Davis tribute band, since its inception. He remains active, touring the world for performances and clinics. Manring studied and toured (early in his career) with Jaco Pastorius. Manring is a technical virtuoso, using the bass as a solo instrument usually in alternate tunings, with additional possibilities and patterns invoked on the fly with lever-activated de-tuners and bridges, somewhat like a pedal steel guitar. Manring occasionally plays on two (or even three) basses at the same time during live performances. He is known as a humble and gracious live performer with a gift for improvisation with guest musicians. Manring is also a gifted composer of experimental music, mixing technology and fretless bass with the sounds of kitchen implements and cardboard boxes, evidenced on his "Book of Flame" solo album. He is known for playing and endorsing Zon basses -- specifically, the Zon Hyperbass, the unusually flexible four-stringed instrument which Manring co-designed with Joseph Zon.
		*Barry Green* Barry Green served as Principal Bassist of the CincinnatiSymphony for twenty-eight years. As former Executive Director of the International Society of Bassists, he is currently directing a young bassist program for the San Francisco Symphony EducationDepartment, teaches privately at Campolindo High School in Moraga and at the University of California Santa Cruz, and is the organizer of the Northern California Bass Club. Former Principal Bassist with the California Symphony and the Sun Valley Idaho Summer Symphony and active as a bass soloist and teacher, Green has been performing for young audiences in schools in the Bay Area as well as performing bass workshops and concerts on tour. Green has studied with the legendary bassistFrançois Rabbath. Green wrote The Popular Bass Method in three volumes in collaboration with Bay Area jazz bassist Jeff Neighbor. Green has also written the Advanced Techniques of Double Bass Playing in two volumes-a college level addendum to existing methods. Green’s recent solo CD’s include Ole-Cool and Live from St. Croix with pianist James Hart plus a jazz/improvisation CD Seat of the Pants. Green is author of the Doubleday book The Inner Game of Music with W. Timothy Gallwey, which deals with musicians reaching their potential in performance and learning and has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide. He has written seven Inner Game of Music Workbooks published by GIA Publications for keyboard, voice, various instruments, and ensembles. In 2003 Green published The Mastery of Music: Ten Pathways to True Artistry (Broadway Books) is based on interviews with over 120 world-famous musicians on topics of courage, passion, creativity,discipline, humility, and more. It deals with qualities of greatness from the human spirit that transcend all professions. Barry's most recent book, Bringing Music to Life was published by GIA Music in April 2009 and is about channeling musical spirit through the body with breath, movement and rhythm skills. A DVD on the same title is in preparation and will include a filming session at the GGBC in 2009. Additional information about Barry Green, his current activities, calendar of appearances, and more is available at http://www.innergameofmusic.com/
*Faculty for Golden Gate Bass Camp:*
		*Kristin Korb* was born and raised in Montana, grew up in a musical family. She completed her B .M. in music education and in 1992 came to University of California, San Diego to earn a M.M. degree under Bertram Turetzky. Kristin has taught at Central Washington University and has moved to Los Angeles to pursue her playing career. Ms. Korb has been guest clinician at Boise State University Vocal Jazz Festival, Soundstation Jazz Festival in Lynnwood Washington and Frank DeMiero Jazz Camp. She keeps a very busy schedule balancing her playing and singing with teaching and clinician work. Kristin is celebrating the release of her new CD Where You'll Find Me featuring drummer Jeff Hamilton and pianist Mike Wofford. Her debut CD for the Telarc label with the Ray Brown Trio Introducing Kristin Korb features her main influence on bass, Ray Brown, pianist Benny Green and drummer Gregory Hutchinson with guest artist Conte Candoli, Plas Johnson and Oscar Castro-Neves. Kristin returns to the GGBC for the FOURTH consecutive year. She is A MEMBER OF the Board of Trustees of the International Society of Bassists.
		Ashley Adams Ashley Adams performs regularly in both classical and club venues and has appeared at numerous local and International New Music festivals. In 1997, The Ashley Adams Trio put out, "Flowers for Ms. Dalloway", music based on the Virginia Wolfe novel on the Evander Label. Her performance credits also include Ted Saveres, Ralph Carney, Leo Smith, Beth Custer, Phillip Greenlief, Eugene Chadborne, the Women's Philharmonic, Khadra International Dance Company, Laurie Lewis , Bay Area Bass Band, Bay Area Balalaika Ensemble, Trio Garufa (Tango), Winechuggers, Zmrzlina, Octomutt, Trio Metrik and BottomFeeders (electric cello/bass duo). Ashley has taught privately, for the SF symphony's youth outreach program, and as a clinician at the Golden Gate Bass Camp. In addition to her composition and bass playing, Ashley has immersed herself in music programming and audio processing.
		*Richard Duke* is an active freelance bassist in the Bay Area. Originally from Alaska, he now resides in San Francisco and performs with orchestras, chamber groups, jazz ensembles and theatre groups throughout the area. He received his bachelors degree from UC Santa Cruz in l995 and his masters from Northwestern University in l998. While at Northwestern, Mr. Duke was also a member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra. He is currently a member of the Monterey, Napa, and Sun Valley Summer Symphony Orchestras.
		*John Kennedy* is nationally recognized as a clinician teaching the Young Bassist. This is his fifth year at the Golden Gate Bass Camp, and he is also a clinician at the Richard Davis Workshop in Madison, Wisconsin, the Troy Bass Workshop in Michigan, and the Elgin Suzuki Workshop in Illinois. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Bassists and directs the Young Bassists Program at their International Conventions. Mr. Kennedy is Principal Bass of the Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra, and was formerly Associate Principal Bass of the Honolulu Symphony and the Santa Fe Symphony. He is orchestra director at Fisher Middle School in the Detroit Public Schools, and has an active private studio. He holds his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in String Bass Performance from the University of Michigan, and studied with Larry Hurst, Robert Gladstone, and Diana Gannett.
		*Pat Klobas* is active as a classical and jazz bassist in the Bay Area. Since completing his Bachalor of Music at San Francisco State University and Masters Of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Pat has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet. He is a member of the Marin Symphony and Sun Valley Summer Sym. As a rhythm section player Pat has backed up renowned performers including Rosemary Clooney, Christin Chenowith and Michael Feinstein. San Francisco Broadway productions include the world premier of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", Mel Brooks's "The Producers" and many others. Pat has produced and performed on three CD's Fix'n a Hole with Page III, Left Coast Local Time with Gini Wilson and Standard Deviation with Michael Udelson. Other recording credits include Linda Ronstadt's Winter Light, Star Wars with John Williams conducting just to name a few. Pat is a founding officer in the Golden Gate Bass Club and currently holds the position of bass lecturer at California State University Hayward. Pat has an active private studio in the East Bay and is looking forward to his tenth year at the Golden Gate Bass Camp.
		Ed Williams is a Bay Area freelance bassist and computer consultant. Ed teaches music composition, arranging and computer technology at the San Francisco School Of The Arts and performs in his jazz trio with his trumpet playing son Devon throughout the area. Ed is editor of the Northern California Bass Club Newsletter. Formerly bassist with Chuck Mangione, Ed is returning for his fourth year coaching ensembles at the GGBC and presents sessions on jazz and computer technology.
		*David H. Young* double bass, earned a B.M. in Music Education with a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School and M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from the University of Southern California. He has studied with Oscar Zimmerman, Peter Mercurio, and Dennis Trembly, and he is a former member of the Rochester Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He is currently principal bass with Los Angeles Opera and the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, and his faculty positions include the Colburn School of Performing Arts and California State University at Long Beach. He has wide experience developing concerts for children and performing chamber music with the String Family Players string quintet. Currently he concentrates upon teaching bass students and leading bass ensemble class at the Colburn School as well as playing in the opera pit. To all this he recently added a new undertaking at Cal State Long Beach – a bass orchestra repertoire class.
		*Scott Pingel* is the newly appointed principal bassist of the San Francisco Symphony, and the former principal bassist of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, two years with the New World Symphony, and served as guest principal of the National Arts Center Orchestra in Canada. Additionally, he has participated in the Bellingham,Tanglewood, Spoleto, Verbier, and Salzburg festivals. Outside of classical music, Mr. Pingel has worked with jazz greats such as Michael Brecker, Geoff Keezer and the late James Williams, performed with pop icon Madonna, and played in an opening act for Tito Puente. It all began back in Madison, WI at about the age of seventeen when Scott, the youngest child of Jack and Carole Pingel, two music teachers, was drawn to the electric-bass and the double-bass out of a strong interest in Latin, jazz, and classical music. At the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he studied with James Clute of the Minnesota Orchestra, he was heavily involved in both jazz and classical studies. After graduation in 1996 he continued his studies privately with Peter Lloyd, principal bassist of the Minnesota Orchestra, while performing throughout the Midwest both as a free-lance musician and as a member of the Latin/jazz/funk band, Urban World. In 1997 he moved to New York to study with Timothy Cobb, principal bassist of the Metropolitan Opera, on a fellowship at the Manhattan School of Music, and received a Master's Degree in Orchestral Performance in 1999. In addition to music, Mr. Pingel spent many years studying the ancient Korean martial art of Hwa Rang Do, in which he holds a black-belt. He was an instructor at the Madison Academy of Hwa Rang Do and founded the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Hwa Rang Do/Tae Soo Do program, which continues to this day. Mr. Pingel lives in San Francisco with his loving wife, Iris, and his very silly cat, Zoe.
		*Alan Scofield* Channel 50 called Alan Scofield “The Danny Kaye of the North Bay”. For twenty five years he has touched the lives of a generation of public school children with his programs that involve creative energy, stories and movement for the stage. As an educator with Young Imaginations, he is opening the way for classroom teachers, teachers in training and parents to experience the joy and wonder of creative expression. 2004 marks Alan Scofield's twenty fifth year as a professional educator, master teacher, choreographer and performer. He has performed and choreographed with many local and national modern ballet companies, and was featured as a soloist with The American Dance Machine in New York City. After his stage career in New York, he became nationally known as a master teacher in prominent arts centers, helping communities place the arts in the educational experience of the public schools. In response to this need expressed by so many parents and educators, Scofield co-founded Young Imaginations in 1987 and has been apart of creating a variety of model arts education projects in Northern California public schools. He is a graduate from the American Conservatory Theater Training Congress in San Francisco and studied at San Francisco State University in the teachers’ college, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Humanities. Further study at the Library for Performing Arts in New York, as well as mentorship with master teachers of the New York City Ballet, resulted in Scofield’s nationally acclaimed Musicality for Dancers, an inspirational course in the art of performing. Alan was also selected to be a teacher trainer for the Canadian National Arts Council at Les Ballets Jazz du Montreal in Canada, addressing the need to create a sustainable curriculum for the arts. In 1994 Alan Scofield was invited to St. Marks School to be a storyteller as part of their Faith in Values program, an ongoing series in which moral values are promoted through presentations by community leaders. Each year he has created and presented a story which uniquely portrays the essence of timeless values for young people. As his storytelling legacy grew, he employed stories and life lessons in many of his teaching residencies, such as the "Dance Through the Decades" program in the Mill Valley Schools. His program for kindergarteners taught in rhyming couplets, movement and storytelling narratives successfully teaches children to become fully engaged with what they are learning. Scofield states: “I have seen the power of a story transform a room a thousand times. The true teacher is a storyteller, and a good story teaches.” Click Here for Alan Scofield's Homepage
		*Robert Wallace* TOTAL RHYTHM Robert Wallace has studied Ghanian dance at the Unversity of Ghana, Afro-Cuban Dance in Havana Cuba, and Afro Brazilian Dance in Rio diJanerio. His musical experience includes performing and/or recorded internationally with world music superstars Bonnie Raitt (USA), Airto Moreira (Brazil), Starlift Steel Orchestra (Trinidad), Margareth Menezes (Brazil), David Rudder (Trinidad), Jovinos Santos Neto (Brazil), Mike Marshall (USA). He returns for this third year to the GGBC presenting his dynamic exercise and drumming sessions integrating musical drum rhythms, dance, movement with enthusiastic energy! His sessions are one of the highlights of our bass camp!
		*Curt Moore* "The drums as played by Curt Moore were always driving and dynamic ... he keeps a fire burning under the groove." Dave Roberts - www.allaboutjazz.com Curt has over 100 recordings to his credit and has shared the recording studio stage with a wide variety of artists. Some of these include: Francisco Aguabella, Count Baise Orchestra, Chuck Berry, Ray Brown, Joyce Cooling, John Clayton, Richard Davis, Ian Dogole, The Different Drums, Pete Escovedo, Bruce Forman, Lola Falana, Vic Firth, Mimi Fox, Jimmy Haslip, Jimmy Heath, Jackie and Roy, Andy Narell, Patrick Palomo, Bernadette Peters, Rufus Reed, Francios Rabatth, San Jose Jazz Orchestra, Turtle Island String Quartet, The Zone, Wild Mango. Curt’s abilities in all music styles provide an impecable backbone for all types of bands from Big Bands to Rock, Pop, Fusion, Latin Jazz and Jazz Trios.