Mr. Hurst critiques students of the Carnegie Mellon Double Bass Studio:
Emily Tarantino, Advanced Music Studies: Exposition of the first movement of the Vanhal Concerto; Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, movement 4, recap; Excerpt from Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, movement 1; Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, #9
Mark Stroud, Master of Music: Exposition of the first movement of the Koussevitsky Double Bass Concerto; first page of the first movement of Mozart’s Symphony No. 39; Recitatives from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony; Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, #77
Joseph Gaskins, Advanced Music Studies: Exposition of the first movement of the Vanhal Double Bass Concerto; Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, movement 1, Letter E; Schubert Symphony No. 9, movement 3, Letter B; Verdi’s Otello
Pittsburgh Double Bass Symposium 