Double Bass Master Class with Rex Surany, Leigh Mesh, Brendan Kane, Kingsley Wood - MET Orchestra Musicians Master Classes
MET Orchestra Musicians Master Classes
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Program
– November 22, 2020: Double Bass
– Panelists: Rex Surany, Leigh Mesh, Brendan Kane, Kingsley Wood
– Performers: Nigel Smith, Shi-Chi Luo, Gerda Kocsis, Andrew Vinther
Mišek: Sonata No.2, Op.6; II. Andante cantabile
Orchestral Excerpts by Mozart, Brahms, Strauss
Bottesini: Concerto No 1; I. Allegro moderato
J.S. Bach: Suite No. 1, BWV 1007; Prélude
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Double Bass: November 22, 2020
Rex Surany - Principal Bass
Rex Surany is the Principal Bassist of The Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He is also a professor of classical double bass performance at The Juilliard School. His musical education began with piano lessons when he was 7 years old. After two years, he switched exclusively to the double bass with Robert Peterson of Trenton, New Jersey. In 2002, upon completing the Vance Progressive Repertoire with Peterson, Rex Surany proceeded to study Rabbath Method with Nicholas Walker, professor of double bass at Ithaca College, and joined the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra under the direction of maestro Joseph Primavera.
Leigh Mesh - Associate Principal Bass
Leigh Mesh, Associate Principal Bass, joined the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 1993. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, he has taught master classes at the New World Symphony in Miami, the Cincinnati Conservatory, the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Mesh has performed regularly at the Verbier Music Festival, and with the MET Chamber Ensemble, the Caramoor Virtuosi, and the Brentano and Tokyo String Quartets. He lives with his wife and two children in New York, and pursues cycling and skiing whenever he can. Mr. Mesh is an exclusive artist for Thomastik-Infeld Strings.
Brendan Kane
Double Bassist Brendan Kane has performed extensively throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Originally from Stillwater, Minnesota, Mr. Kane joined the bass section of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in the Fall of 2014. Prior to his appointment at the Met, Mr. Kane held the positions of Assistant Principal Bass of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Principal Bass of the Minas Gerias Philharmonic Orchestra in Brazil. He is also a former member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach and regularly appears around the world as Principal Bass of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra.
Kingsley Wood
Kingsley J. Wood has been a member of the Met Orchestra since 2001. He was formerly a member of the Louisville Orchestra. Kingsley graduated from Peabody Conservatory where he studied with John Hood and is originally from Palo Alto, CA.
THE METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA
Thrilling audiences with more than 200 performances each season, the MET Orchestra is one of the world’s great performing ensembles, both on stage and in the opera pit. Since its founding in 1883, the MET Orchestra’s performances have encompassed not only the entire opera repertoire, but symphonic and chamber programs at Carnegie Hall, international tours, and countless musician activities outside of the Metropolitan Opera House. The MET Orchestra has grown in the past four decades into an ensemble noted by singers, critics, conductors, and audiences as one of today’s most stylistically versatile and musically satisfying orchestras.
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