Edgar Meyer, double bass - Family Matinee
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San Francisco Performances Family Matinee
Composer and double bassist Edgar Meyer, hailed "the most remarkable virtuoso" by The New Yorker, is equally at home performing challenging classical works, toe-tapping bluegrass standards and iconic pop favorites for listeners of all ages. His charisma and easy-going stage manner beguile audiences and inspire fellow-and aspiring!-musicians to explore broader horizons.
Meyer can be heard on a concerto album with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hugh Wolff featuring Bottesini's Grand Duo with Joshua Bell, Meyer's own Double Concerto for Bass and Cello with Yo-Yo Ma, Bottesini's Bass Concerto No. 2, and Meyer's own Concerto in D for Bass. In 2006, he released a self-titled solo recording on which he wrote and recorded all of the music, incorporating piano, guitar, mandolin, dobro, banjo, gamba, and double bass. In 2007, recognizing his wide-ranging recording achievements, Sony/BMG released a compilation of The Best of Edgar Meyer. In 2011 Meyer joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mandolinist Chris Thile, and fiddler Stuart Duncan for the Sony Masterworks recording "The Goat Rodeo Sessions" which was awarded the 2012 Grammy(R) Award for Best Folk Album.
$15 adults/$10 children.
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