Bertram Turetzky
Template:More footnotes needed Bertram JayTemplate:Sfn Turetzky (born February 14, 1933)<ref name=":2">Template:Cite book</ref> is an American double bass player, composer,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn teacher, and author of The Contemporary Contrabass (1974).
Early life and education
Turetzky was born in Norwich, Connecticut,<ref name=":2" /> and grew up there.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He received a master's degree in music history from the University of Hartford.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> He started out playing classic jazz.
Career
Turetzky has performed and recorded many pieces written by and for him. Turetzky's first recording was in 1964, featuring the work of American composers George Perle, Jay Sydeman, Donald Martino, Kenneth Gaburo, Ben Johnston, and Charles Whittenberg.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His recording activities continued with records on labels Nonesuch, Son Nova, Ars Antigua, and Desto. He also made a series of recordings on the Nine Winds label with improvisational musicians George E. Lewis, Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, Mike Wofford, and others.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Turetzky is the most widely recorded double bass soloist, with seven albums on the Advance, Ars Nova, Nonesuch, Takoma, Desto, and Finnadar music labels.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite AV media notes</ref>
Turetzky plays chamber music, baroque music,, jazz, renaissance music, improvisational music, klezmer music and many other genres of world music.<ref name=":0" /> Music critic Michael Steinberg has praised his continuo playing.Template:Citation needed Bernard Jacobson of the Chicago Daily News described Turestzky as "a virtuoso of caliber unsurpassed by any other practitioner of his instrument today."<ref name=":1" />
His edited volumes of music by Domenico Dragonetti have achieved some prominence.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Turetzky co-edits a book series called The New Instrumentation; seven volumes have been published, including The Contemporary Contrabass, which he authored. Turetzky wrote an introduction to The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazz Man about the early development of jazz bass playing.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Turetzky is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego.<ref name=":1" /> His former students include bassists Mark Dresser and Karl E. H. Seigfried.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Personal life
He is married to flutist Nancy Turetzky.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> They have two sons and a daughter and live in Del Mar, California.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":2" />
He also plays the guitar, piano, and banjo.
Selected discography
- Recital of New Music, Advance, 1964.
- The Virtuoso Double Bass, Medea Records, 1966.
- The New World of Sound, Ars Nova, 1969.
- The Contemporary Contrabass, Nonesuch Records, 1970.
- "Logs" in Tree Music by Paul Chihara, CRI, 1970.
- Dragonetti Lives!, Takoma Records, 1975.
- "Spectra" in Instrumental Music by Richard Felciano, CRI, 1975.
- "Found Objects No. 3 For Contrabass And Tape" in The Music Of Arthur Custer Vol. 3 by Arthur Custer, Serenus, 1976.
- Bertram Turetzky Plays Music By Donald Erb, J. M. Mestres-Quadreny, Will Ogdon, Netty Simons, Desto, 1976.
- New Music For Contrabass, Finnadar, 1976.
- "Inflections I" by Robert Hall Lewis, on New Music for Virtuosos, New World Records, 1978.
- "Trio for Violin, Contrabass and Piano" (with Virko Baley and Eugene Gratovich) by Leonid Hrabovsky, on 20th Century Ukrainian Violin Music, Yevshan, 1987.
- A Different View, Folkways Records, 1982.
- Intersections (with Vinny Golia), Nine Winds, 1990.
- "Ricercar à 3" in Sierra & Other Works by Robert Erickson, CRI Records, 1991.
- Compositions and Improvisations, Nine Winds Records, 1993.
- Prataksis (with Wadada Leo Smith and Vinny Golia), Nine Winds, 1997.
- "Three Pieces for Double Bass Alone" on Suddenly It's Evening by Donald Erb, CRI, 2000.
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- Classical double-bassists
- 1933 births
- Living people
- University of Hartford alumni
- Jewish American classical composers
- University of California, San Diego faculty
- People from Norwich, Connecticut
- American contemporary classical music performers
- 20th-century American classical composers
- American male classical composers
- American classical double-bassists
- American male double-bassists
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- 21st-century American double-bassists
- 20th-century American male musicians
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- Incus Records artists
- 21st-century American Jews
- Takoma Records artists