Music for the double bass

Date of Event: November 7, 2012

Posted: October 26, 2012

GRANVILLE, Ohio—A performance by Anthony Stoops on the bass and David Maki on the piano, will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7, in the Burke Recital Hall (240 West Broadway). The performance, “New American Music for the Double Bass,” is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Pam Hughes at 740-587-6220 or visit www.denison.edu.

An advocate for new music, Stoops has premiered numerous works by several emerging composers in addition to performing regularly as an improviser. His compositions, arrangements and transcriptions are played around the world by renowned soloists and students alike. He is published by Ovation Press, which continues to release several of his compositions, arrangements and transcribed editions. Additionally, Stoops also is a founding member of the celebrated Bad Boyz of Double Bass Quartet, with whom he has performed worldwide.

Stoops is an associate professor of double bass at the University of Oklahoma School of Music. His students have been prize-winners in competitions, been placed in several leading graduate programs and have gone on to rewarding careers as teachers and as full-time performers in a variety of styles.

Currently serving as co-principal bass of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Stoops has performed in more than a dozen other orchestras including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Columbus, Ohio and Toledo Symphony orchestras, as well as the Michigan Opera Theater Orchestra and many others. He began performing professionally at the age of nineteen as a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and since then has had the opportunity to perform under many of the world’s great conductors such as Sir Georg Solti, Neeme Järvi, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Mark Wigglesworth, Pierre Boulez and Charles Dutoit to name a few.

Calendar Listing:

CALENDAR LISTING: Denison, Granville—Music performance: “New American Music for Double Bass,” featuring Anthony Stoops on the bass and David Maki on the piano, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7, in the Burke Recital Hall (240 West Broadway). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Pam Hughes at 740-587-6220 or visit www.denison.edu.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

For press inquiries:

Name: Ginny Sharkey
Position Title: Media Relations
Primary Email: sharkeyv@denison.edu
Business Phone: (740) 587-6266

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