Double Bass Course

acterised by good spirits, mutual acceptance, support and reliability. Most important of all is the aspiration to professionalism: after all, following completion of nine to ten semesters at the Uni-
versity, the students should be in a position to find work in a cultural landscape now more and more threatened by cutbacks. In this context, here are some basic questions that need to be considered before starting a study course in music:
- Why do I want to study music? Because being a "musician" is a good job,
with which you can, if you are lucky, earn good money or become well-known?
Or because I have such a powerful need to make music that I have no other professional option? - Am I ready to practice every day for the rest of my life, and to give up a great deal for it?
- Can I accept that as a musician I can never finish learning?
- Am I able to work more and to work harder than others?
- Can I handle failures and disappointments and still keep going, without giving up on my goal?
- a reasonable size class of eight to at most ten students, making it possible to work individually and intensively
- regular and continuous double bass tuition (no student ever yet improved because the Professor was on tour!)
- individual piano accompaniment for up to one hour a week
- regular concerts by the class, internal and public
- seminars with principal bass players of leading German orchestras
- recordings of rehearsals, plus full recording productions using the latest digital technology
- involvement in varied chamber music, theatrical, and of course orchestral projects
- a "Pop/World Music" course, which invites you on to join in further activities
- excellent outfitting, with eight double basses, a Yamaha grand piano, and two classrooms of our own, equipped with an Internet connection.

Silvio Dalla Torre, Tobias Hammer, Hey-Sang Park

from left to right
Emilio Peroni: piano accompaniment, Silvio Dalla Torre: double bass,
Henry Schwarzkopf: double bass teaching methods
Emilio Peroni: piano accompaniment, Silvio Dalla Torre: double bass,
Henry Schwarzkopf: double bass teaching methods


