469: Pascale Delache-Feldman on French traditions

Pascale Delache-Feldman has been a frequently requested podcast guest, and it was such a pleasure to get a chance to connect with her!

Pascale enjoys a multifaceted career as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, and teacher.  She is the founder of the Boston Bass Bash and is co-founder of the co-founder of Duo Cello e Basso (formerly the Axiom Duo) with cellist Emmanuel Feldman.  She also teaches at Bard College, New England Conservatory, Tufts University, and Brown University.

We dig into all kinds of topics like:

• growing up in France
• attending the Paris Conservatory
• studying with Roger Scott at the Curtis Institute
• programming and commissioning music for Duo Cello e Basso
• differences between French and American double bass playing

Here’s a list of material that Pascale uses with her undergraduate students:

• Fred Zimmermann: a Contemporary Concept of Bowing Technique for the double bass
• Hal Robinson: Strokin' and Boardwalkin'
• Franco Petracchi: Simplified Higher Technique
• Marcos Machado: Tao of Bass
• Edouard Nanny: Caprice Etudes and Etudes of Virtuosity
• Storch-Hrabe: 57 Studies
• Kreutzer and Fiorillo Etudes
• Isaia Bille: 18 Studies
• Alain Weber: 10 Rhythmic and Melodic Etudes
• J.S Bach: Cello Suites
• Orchestral Excerpts by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Strauss......
• Major Bass Concertos: Dittersdorf, Vanhal, Koussevitzky, Bottesini
• Sonatas by Vivaldi, Bach Viola da Gamba sonatas, Misek, Schubert Arpeggione, Hindemith
• Short pieces by Bottesini, Koussevitzky, Glière, Fauré......

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