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gfowler@monm.edu
Garold Fowler teaches double bass, electric
bass and guitar at Monmouth College.
Garold
Fowler’s double bass teachers include Darryl Pugh and Angel Sicam of
the Syracuse Symphony and Michael Griffin assistant principal of the
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Pedagogically, Garold’s method of
instruction is to provide the student with a solid technical
foundation of the double bass; a technical foundation that naturally
fosters tone and volume, agility and accurate intonation. Learned
through his teachers, this approach to double bass playing is shared
by Franco Petracci and Orin O’Brien.
Garold Fowler
is a second desk double bassist with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra
and principal double bassist with the Knox-Galesburg Symphony
Orchestra and Peoria Bach Festival. Garold also performs regularly
with his quintet Tango Espejo, which specializes in the music of
Astor Piazzolla and tango music. His extensive performance
background includes jazz, blues, musical theatre, opera orchestras
and chamber music. Garold’s most recent guest performer and
recitalist appearances have included engagements in Central
Illinois, Connecticut, Switzerland and Italy.
Garold’s
musical activities also include composing and arranging. His
doctoral research involved editing and transcribing a selection of
compositions for quintet by Astor Piazzolla. Among the complete
transcriptions made for this research was “Introducción al Angel.”
Currently, Garold is editing Invierno Porteño and Primavera Porteña
by Astor Piazzolla for Tango Espejo’s recording in January 2010 of
the complete Four Buenos Aires Seasons and the Suite del Angel. In
January 2008 Garold’s arrangement for double bass and piano of
“Andante Cantabile” by Paganini was published by BassScores
Editions. In April 2007 Garold’s string orchestra arrangement of “Verano
Porteño” by Astor Piazzolla was performed by the Enescu Ensemble at
UIUC under the direction of Maestro Israel Menezes; music director
of the Rio Camerata Orchestra in Rio de Janeiro.
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