Performances + Events
Chris Rathbun
Education and Training
BM, New England Conservatory; MS, Simmons College. Berklee College of Music (Undergraduate studies) Double bass with William Curtis, Gaston Dufresne, Frank Gallagher, Lawrence Wolfe, Dave Holland, and Virginia Dixon (Suzuki Teacher Training) Improvisation with Ran Blake and Jaki Byard.
Awards and Recognition
2021 Mass Cultural Council Grant
Recent performances include the 2022 Contemporary Music Festival: Cloister of the Baronial Castle, in Cellamare (Bari, Italy) and Cloister Of The Sixteenth Century, Lecce, Italy as well as the 2018 JazzIt Fest (Bari, Italy).
SAA Conference presentation topics have included; “Facing ‘Improviphobia’ With Language Skills,” “Jazz for Classical Musicians,” and “Do You Like Chords?”
COMPOSITIONS: Azygous Void (1970), Summer Morning By The Mystic (1977), Geo-Political Statement (1979), It Came From Out Of The Woods (1980), The River Niger (1984), The Troglodyte (1984), Free Jazz (2012), The Future Of The Past (2013), Flowers Emerging [From A Forest Fire] (2014)
CD’S: Geo-Political Statement (Chris Rathbun, Stephan Peisch-violin), It Came From Out of the Woods (Chris Rathbun film ensemble), If I Could Dance Like Fred Astaire (Jim Porcella, Ron Zack), Never Never Land (Jon Jarvis), The Good Stuff (Bob Roskopf, Jon Wheatley) Peace (Steve Dale), Something Irresistible: Songs of Fran Landesman (Shepley Metcalf), Jazzamir (Zamir Chorale), The Music of Canary Burton (Jon Jarvis), The Last Taxi [4 CDs] (Patrick Battstone)
Curriculum Vitae
BM, New England Conservatory; MS, Simmons College. Berklee College of Music (Undergraduate studies) Double bass with William Curtis, Gaston Dufresne, Frank Gallagher, Lawrence Wolfe, Dave Holland, and Virginia Dixon (Suzuki Teacher Training) Improvisation with Ran Blake and Jaki Byard.
- 2021 Mass Cultural Council Grant
