Biographies Index

Bertram Turetzky (M.A., Music History, University of Hartford Contrabasses)

Turetzky has been a featured contrabass soloist in the music centers of the United States, Europe, Latin America and Australia. The response to his many concerts, recordings, lectures, writings and his unique sonic vocabulary has taken the contrabass from its traditional role to assume the position of a major solo instrument. More than 300 compositions have been written for, performed by and recorded by Turetzky, making him one of the few performers, in all of music history, to have created a large and impressive repertoire of music for his instrument.

Turetzky is also an acclaimed scholar/researcher in the fields of Jazz History, 18th Century Chamber Music and is the author of many reviews, articles and the now classic book, "The Contemporary Contrabass". After the success of his book, Turetzky was named co-editor of "The New Instrumentation Series" [UC Press]. He is also a published composer, editor, transcriber and arranger of music for his instrument. His compositions are published, reviewed and recorded. Turetzky has also received many awards for composition from ASCAP plus grants from the NEA and Meet the Composer as well as many commissions.

Bertram Turetzky is currently the Senior Professor of Music at UCSD.