Bachelor in Bass, Master's Degree, Doctorate, study with Patrick Neher

Patrick introduces UNIQUE and NEW WAYS of TEACHING BASS.
For 2011 and beyond, Patrick's approach to teaching bass acknowledges the ever-changing world of bass playing, and allows the student to focus on his/her most pressing musical needs. This new way of teaching the bass maintains traditional attitudes and methods that work, while integrating fresh, innovative concepts, techniques, philosophies and psychology. Integrating electric bass and bass guitar, with double bass methods, is a key focus! A student will graduate from the studio with skills that will allow him/her to participate in all genres of music, to be truly marketable in today's morphing music world.
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By-The-Way, Patrick is recognized as one of the world's leading double bass soloists and composers of music for double bass. He is a Juilliard graduate and Certified Professor of the New Technique of Francois Rabbath. He has been with the faculty of the University of Arizona since1984. He founded the Arizona Double Bass Symposium in1988 and the Arizona Bass Players Festival and Workshop in 2005. He is a former member of the San Diego Symphony, the New Mexico Symphony, the American Philharmonic, the New Orleans Symphony, the New 20th Century Players, and for ten years he was Principal Bassist with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. For eighteen years he performed as Principal Bassist with the Orchestra of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra.

Prof. Neher's solo concert career has taken him around the world, and throughout the USA.. As an active chamber musician, he has performed with numerous international festivals, conferences, symposia, and chamber music intensives. Patrick is a founding member and producer of Crossing Barriers Group a multi-media, multi-genre, collaborative ensemble that performs regularly with guest artists from around the country. (See Atomic City for one example of Neher's multi-media productions). He is also owner and producer at Pro Studio Strings.

Prof. Neher gives clinics on double bass performance and composition around the world, has been one of the Directors of the International Society of Bassists, and has been listed in International Who's Who in Music since 1989. He has served twice as Head of the Solo Competition Jury for the International Society of Bassists, and for three years he was the Double Bass Forum Editor for American String Teacher magazine. As an active member of ASCAP he is an avid composer, arranger, and editor with music and recordings published by Liben Music and ISG Publications. Prof. Neher's articles on double bass and its players, and reviews of his compositions, have been published by Double Bassist Magazine, American String Teacher, Strings Magazine, and the ISB Journal.

With a repertory of over 300 works that span four centuries, and performances lauded as "creative, inspiring, and theatrical," Patrick performs on a Charles Quenoil model double bass made by Christian Laborie (France), a fretless acoustic-electric bass by Breedlove, and a five string fretless by Spector. Strings for the double bass, "the Neher Mix," include those made by Pirastro ( Permanent) and Savarez (Corelli medium). For mixed-media performances, he uses electronics and software by Roland, Boss, Behringer, Sennheiser, Nakamichi, Digitech, Avid, Adobe, and Apple-Macintosh.

Professor Neher's instruction results in mulit-talented musicians who have been placed in major music positions around the world.