Kurt Muroki, double bass
Double bassist Kurt Muroki, newly appointed to the faculty at New York University and the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, has collaborated with the Guarneri, Juilliard, and Tokyo string quartets and the Ensemble Wien-Berlin. He has won the Aspen Music Festival double bass competition, the New World Symphony concerto competition, and the Honolulu Symphony Young Artists Competition (playing the violin). He entered The Juilliard School to study with Homer R. Mensch and, at age 21, began performing with Sejong, a conductor-less string orchestra. A 2009-10 Artist of the Chamber Music Society, he has appeared with the Jupiter Chamber Players, Concertante Chamber Players, Speculum Musicae, Ensemble Sospeso, Sequitur, the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra, Tokyo Opera Nomori, New York City Ballet, Ensemble 21, Marlboro Music Festival, Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, the 92nd Street Y, Metropolitan Museum Artists, and the New York Chamber Soloists. A native of Maui, Hawaii, Mr. Muroki is currently teacher of double bass at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and serves on the faculties of The Juilliard School, SUNY Stony Brook, and New Jersey City University. He plays a double bass once owned by Domenico Dragonetti and attributed to Nicolo Amati circa 1665.
Kurt Muroki
Upcoming Appearances at Chamber Music Society:
Baroque Collection: 12/10/2010
Baroque Collection: 12/12/2010
Brandenburg Concertos: 12/19/2010
Brandenburg Concertos: 12/21/2010
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