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Double bassist Hans Sturm has performed
as soloist, chamber, orchestral, jazz and improvisational musician
throughout Europe, Asia, South America, Africa and the United States.
Sturm received his doctorate from Northwestern University and is
currently a Professor and Chair of the String Department
at Ball State University.
 Sturm
has appeared with a variety of artists across the spectrum of jazz music
including Eddie Daniels, Phil Woods, Randy Brecker, Dick Hyman, Roscoe
Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Eddie Higgins, David Baker, Stanley Jordan, Peter
Erskine, Joe LaBarbera, Alan Dawson, Bela Fleck, Howard Levy and many
others. A frequent performer of chamber music, Sturm has toured with 'Fireflight'
(soprano, Japanese koto and bass koto, double bass, and percussion) and
'Trinkle, Burkett, and Sturm' (trumpet, marimba and double bass) for more
than fifteen years. He has worked in the electronic medium with composers
such as Cleveland Scott and Joan Wildman. As an orchestral bassist, he
has served as principal bassist of numerous regional orchestras including
the Muncie Symphony, Quad Cities Symphony, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra,
Madison Symphony, Dubuque Symphony, Dorian Opera, Rockford Symphony, and
Racine Symphony and toured Europe as a member of the American Sinfonietta
Chamber Orchestra.
Recently Hans Sturm has appeared
at the Beijing Music Festival; the Association of Brazilian Contrabassists
International Conventions in Goiania and Pirenopolus, Brazil; the
Scottish Bass Trust's International Convention and the Fringe Festival
in Edinburgh Scotland; the College Music Society International Conference
in Kyoto, Japan; Encontro de instrumentistas in Joao Pessoa and
Belo Horizonte, Brazil; the Biennial International Symposium on
Arts and Technology in New London, Connecticut; a State Department
tour of Morocco; various International Society of Bassists Conventions
in Bloomington, Houston, Indianapolis, Iowa City and Richmond; and
jazz fest ivals in Chicago, New York, Detroit, Madison, Milwaukee,
and Minneapolis.
Sturm has contributed performances
and compositions to more than thirty recordings with artists including
the Pro Arte String Quartet, soprano Mimmi Fulmer, vocalist Jackie
Allen, synthesist/composer Joan Wildman, guitarists Scott Fields,
Rolf Sturm, Dave Baney, Jeff Parker, and Jack Grassel, trumpeters
Bob Levy and David Young, and pianists Jane Reynolds, and Marilyn
Crispell. He has recorded for A440, Innova, Red Mark, Music and
Arts, CRI, Big Chicago, and Cadence labels among others.
Hans Sturm is currently the President-Elect
of the International Society of Bassists and served as the New Music
Editor for the organization's journal 'Bass World' for six years. He
is on the summer faculty of the National High School Music Institute
at Northwestern University and his works for bass are published by Liben
Music (U.S.) and Klaus Schruff (Europe). His major teachers have included
Northwestern
University Professor Jeff Bradetich, Pittsburgh Symphony Principal Bass
Emeritus Anthony Bianco, Philadelphia Orchestra bassist Ferdinand Maresh,
and international soloist and pedagogue François
Rabbath.
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