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Arizona Bass Players,
Inc. sponsors
a Festival and Workshop every
year. This season (March 5-8, 2009), it will be held at Arizona
State University School of Music, Catalin Rotaru organizing host. The
four-day event will feature concerts and workshops Thursday thru Sunday. Local
Artists, Patrick Neher, Catalin
Rotaru, and Joel
DiBartolo are scheduled to perform and present master classes. Guest Artists,
from out of Arizona, will be:
John Clayton (jazz), Thierry
Barbé (classical), Ray Reindeau,
electric bass, and Irena
Olkiewicz , from Poland
ABP announces
the second Solo Competition, in Two Categories,
now open to all electric bass guitar players and all double bass players 15
- 22 years of age, sponsored by Arizona
Music Pro, Inc., Pecanic
Music, Alfred
Publishing, Arizona String Shop,
Andrew's Fine Violins, and
ISG Publications. See more Details
here.
Register for the Festival and/or for the
Competition here.
Our housing partner and sponsor is the Twin
Palms Hotel, just across the street from ASU School of Music,
at 225 E. Apache Blvd, Tempe, AZ 85281. Tel: 480-967-9431.
They are providing participants in the Festival a GREAT RATE of $89/night
for up to FOUR people in the room! This is the most convenient location and
the best price anywhere. Please book
your room NOW. Mention the
Arizona Bass Players Festival. Deadline is Feb.6
for this rate. After this simply INQUIRE.