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The Faculty Recital Series presents a recital of music for double bass and piano performed by Diana Gannett and Anne Chamberlain in Kellogg Music Center. They will perform works by Franz Jaksch, Halsey Stevens, Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Sergei Prokofiev. Free Admission.

Photography by Lazlo Gyorsok

Anne Chamberlain has concertized extensively as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United State and Europe. Her numerous performances have included concerts at Alice Tully Hall and Town Hall in New York City, as well as appearances at other major halls, music festivals and universities, where she has premiered many works by her contemporaries. In programming music Ms. Chamberlain often includes late Romantic and early 20th Century masters - music which stylistically previews later trends - combining these with contemporary works. The Portland (Maine) Concert Association awarded Ms. Chamberlain the John Knowles Paine Award in recognition of her performances of American music of the late 20th Century.

Ms. Chamberlain was born in New York City, graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and studied at the Juilliard School. In recent years she has performed in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, coaching and accompanying singers from the Viet Nam National Opera Company and giving chamber music concerts with leading instrumentalists in the Ha Noi community. With these musicians she appeared on VNTV, and Ha Noi FM radio.

In addition to performing, Anne also works to connect people and music. She often shares some words about a new piece of music before performing it, to allow an audience to enter into the experience of hearing it more fully. She teaches piano students of all ages to understand music and its structures, whether elementary or advanced. Anne has been a member of the faculty of Bard College at Simon's Rock for many years where she teaches piano students. Her musical work in her own community, including directing a church choir, allows music to be shared in a variety of contexts, often of deep personal importance. She has wide experience accompanying the vocal art song - a repertoire she especially enjoys - and performing chamber music within settings that are both inter-generational and international.

Photography by Linz Jones

Diana Gannett, Double Bass
Diana Gannett is currently Professor of Double Bass and Chair of the String Area at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previous appointments include the faculties of Yale University School of Music and the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, the Oberlin College Conservatory in Ohio and the University of Iowa where as the first woman President for the International Society of Bassists, she hosted the 1999 ISB international convention.

Her studies with Eldon Obrecht, Stuart Sankey and Gary Karr culminated with a doctorate in musical arts (DMA), the first Yale doctorate awarded in double bass. She co-taught with Karr for many years at Hartt and for some of the years that she taught at Yale. Her students have been finalists and winners in solo and jazz competitions on the regional, national and international levels (ASTA, ISB, Klein, Sphinx, Young Artists) and members and principals of professional orchestras in the US and abroad (Winnipeg, Israel, Jerusalem, Sao Paulo, New World, Houston).

As a chamber musician she has performed with the artists of the Guarneri, Emerson, Laurentian, Stradivari, Maia, Corigliano, Phoenix and Stanford Quartets and the Borodin Trio. Her solo appearances have included many contemporary premieres and solo improvisations as well as traditional repertoire recitals and soloing with orchestra. In recent years she performed and taught in Scotland, Taiwan, Poland and Brazil as well as Israel. Her solo CD Ladybass features a mix of genres. Newly released Duetti Dolci with bassist David Murray features opera duos on double bass. Another duo CD and two solo CDs are in the works.

Instrument building has always been a passion. She worked with Carleen Hutchins of the Catgut Acoustical Society on several instruments. The original Catgut bass is a copy of a Carcassi with tuned plates. Diana owns this and has built her own copy of it. It’s original tuning of is for high C (C G D A) and she often performs in this tuning. Diana has commissioned basses from other innovative builders such as Jean Auray and Mario Lamarre. Current performances are on the Lamarre “Venus” bass.