2025 Presenters

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About 2025 Symposium

Scott Dixon

Ju-Fang Liu

Joe McFadden

Jeff Mangone

Mikyung Sung

PSO Bass Section with Special Guest, Jeff Turner

2025 Symposium Held In Person and Streamed Live on YouTube March 2

Free and Open To the Public

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Presenters for the 2025 Pittsburgh Double Bass Symposium will include Mikyung Sung as the featured recitalist. Scott Dixon of the Cleveland Orchestra, JuFang Liu, Principal Bass of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Joe McFadden, Principal Bass of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Jeff Mangone, Principal Bass of the Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra will all give classes. And the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Double Bass Section, with special guest Jeff Turner, professor of Double Bass at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, will perform. Jason Heath will be there to cover the event. You don’t want to miss it!

Sponsors/Exhibitors include Shank’s Strings, Heartland Double Bass Shop, Bob’s House of Basses, Upton Bass, Cincinnati Bass Cellar, and Korus Bows.

All performances and classes are held in Kresge Theatre. The exhibitors are located in Alumni Concert Hall in the College of Fine Arts Building.

This event will be in person and streamed live on Carnegie Mellon’s YouTube Channel.

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