Concert at 5:00 p.m.
Free admission
The Tucson Bass Jam is an ASTA-sponsored clinic for beginning, intermediate, and advanced double bass students, music educators, and community bass players of any age from Southern Arizona. Attendees will participate in workshops, rehearse as a bass orchestra, and give an informal performance at the end of the day.
Participants should visit and register on the AZ-ASTA website. Registration on the day of the event will be possible, but not recommended. https://astaaz.org/event/tucson-bass–jam/
Faculty Director: Dr. Philip Alejo, University of Arizona (palejo@arizona.edu)
Lead Teachers: Dr. Kelsey Nussbaum and Lisa Brown
Guest Artist: Eleonore Oppenheim, Broadway bassist (https://eobass.com/bio)
We will be hosting the Karr-Koussevitsky Bass at UA during Tucson Bass Jam (pictured below). This is a famous bass in our community that we are delighted to be hosting.
Our guest artist will be the wonderfully talented Eleonore Oppenheim, bassist in Illinois, the current Broadway production based on the music of Sufjan Stevens. Dr. Kelsey Nussbaum (Music Education, UA) will offer a session for non-bass playing classroom teachers, and Lisa Brown (TUSD) will offer programming for beginner bassists.
Eleonore Oppenheim
Eleonore Oppenheim is a genre surfing musical polyglot. Her current projects include big dog little dog (a duo with composer/violinist Jessie Montgomery), an acoustic trio with art-pop auteur Glasser and multi-instrumentalist Robbie Lee, and the avant folk-jazz supergroup the Hands Free (with James Moore, Caroline Shaw, and Nathan Koci), among others. Eleonore has an exciting repertoire of commissioned solo pieces and has also worked with established composers including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Meredith Monk, in composer-led ensembles like Missy Mazzoli’s “all-star, all female” bandsemble Victoire and Florent Ghys’ low strings and drums powerhouse Bonjour, with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and with many other artists from the indie rock, jazz, and folk worlds.
In addition to writing and arranging music, she has established herself as a go-to chamber musician, soloist, recording artist, and large ensemble player. Eleonore enjoys working in the theater as well and credits include Daniel Fish’s groundbreaking reimagining of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” off- and on Broadway and “Illinoise,” Justin Peck’s dance drama setting of Sufjan Stevens’ music, off and on Broadway. Also a music educator, she currently runs a new music program for teens called Face the Music at the Kaufman Music Center and also teaches and is ensembles manager at Special Music High School. She is an alumna of the Juilliard School, the Yale School of Music, and Stony Brook University.
