美国低音提琴演奏家作曲家：Edgar Meyer

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Edgar Meyer是世界著名的低音提琴演奏家，也是著名的作曲家。5岁起迈尔便师从父亲学习低音大提琴。1994年获艾佛瑞‧费雪事业奖，成为首位获该奖的低音大提琴家。他是许多音乐节的常客，他同时以演奏家、作曲家身份出席亚斯本、檀格坞、西北室内音乐节等，目前是皇家音乐学院的客座低音大提琴教授。

Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is a prominent contemporary bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville/>/>/>/>, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger. His collaborators have spanned a wide range of musical styles and talents; among them are Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Sam Bush, James Taylor, Chris Thile, Mike Marshall, Mark O'Connor, Alison Krauss, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and the trio Nickel Creek.

Biography

Meyer grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He learned to play the double bass from his father, the late Edgar Meyer, Sr., who directed the string orchestra program for the local public school system. Meyer later went on to Indiana University to study with Stuart Sankey.

Meyer is noted for achieving virtuosity on an instrument of unusual technical difficulty. Following in the footsteps of other bass players like Gary Karr and Mark Bernat before him, he has tried a hand at performing music originally composed for other instruments, such as Bach's unaccompanied cello suites.

Meyer has also composed a number of works, including two double bass concertos, a double concerto for bass and cello, and a violin concerto composed specifically for Hilary Hahn.

In 2000, he won the Avery Fisher Prize, given once every few years to classical instrumentalists for outstanding achievement. In 2002, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Meyer's collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor on the widely acclaimed Sony Classical disc Appalachia Waltz reached the top of the United States pop charts for 16 weeks when it was released. Meyer collaborated again with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor on Appalachian Journey, that earned a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album.

On Meyer's self-titled 2006 Sony Classical release, he performs accompanied only by himself on a wide variety of instruments besides his usual piano and double bass, including guitar, banjo, viola da gamba, mandolin and dobro.

Meyer is Adjunct Associate Professor of Double Bass at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music, as well as at the Curtis Institute

Discography

Solo work

Unfolding (1986)

Work in Progress (1990)

Dreams of Flight (1996)

Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites Performed on Double Bass (2000)

Meyer and Bottesini Concertos (2002)

Edgar Meyer (2006)

With Jerry Douglas and Russ Barenberg

Skip, Hop, and Wobble (1993)

With Béla Fleck and Mike Marshall