Jeffrey Beecher
Jeffrey Beecher (* 1982 ) is an American double bass player .
Beecher studied in New York at the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School of Music and completed his training at the Curtis Institute of Music with Harold Robinson and Edgar Meyer . He has played as principal double bass player in major orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra , the Minnesota Orchestra , the Detroit Symphony Orchestra , the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and has appeared as a chamber musician a. a. at Weill Recital Hall , Zankel Hall , the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Merkin Hall, and regularly at the Marlboro Music Festival .
Beecher is also a permanent member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble . With this he entered u. a. in the US and Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, India and Egypt, Iran, Syria, Azerbaijan, Israel and Malaysia. He contributed to the ensemble's album Off the Map and attended the Weill Institute Professional Training Workshops at Carnegie Hall as its mentor . He has also taught master classes at Harvard University , the Rhode Island School of Design , Northwestern University and the University of California .
Beecher composes and produces the music for the TV show Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe for PBS . He lives in Toronto, where he is principal double bass with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and teacher of double bass at the Royal Conservatory of Music and at the University of Toronto . Beecher plays a double bass by Giovanni Battista Rogeri (1690) and a French double bass by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1850).
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- ↑ Jeffrey Beecher . In: Toronto Symphony Orchestra . January 17, 2016 ( tso.ca [accessed November 24, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beecher, Jeffrey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American double bass player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1982 |