About
Double Bass Composer Project
Solo and chamber music written for the Double Bass is hard to come by. At The Double Bass/Composer Project, our goal is to foster the composition and performance of new solo and chamber works featuring the double bass.
Crowd Funding & Live Streaming
Crowd funding and live streaming are aspects of our current music industry reality that are relatively underexplored by classical musicians. We aim to provide composers with crowd-funded commissions and guaranteed performances of their work, while providing bassists with opportunities to perform new works in front of a truly global audience.
Armed with a Bachelor’s Degree in Double Bass Performance and a Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, plus a self-education in the music business born of necessity, Ron Kadish has carved out a unique career in music as a bassist, publicist, tour manager, contractor, and booking agent- often executing all of those roles at once in the same ensemble.
As a bassist, Ron’s career has taken him to playing in the double bass section of the Jerusalem Symphony to touring North America with Pakistani jazz fusion group Mekaal Hassan Band; touring with Johnny Cash tribute artist Robert Shaw to touring with Dreamworks-signed singer-songwriter Kim Fox and a host of other nationally touring artists; and as an accomplished session player he’s cut bass tracks to hundreds of albums, demos, jingles, and soundtracks with artists ranging from Frederick Fennell to John Mellencamp.
Throughout the 2010s Ron ran the music department at the legendary PR firm rock paper scissors and was simultaneously the company’s lead music publicist. Over the course of several years Ron did PR for an incredible roster of artists including Salif Keita, Youssou N’Dour, George Clinton, Eileen Ivers, Juan de Marcos, Bassekou Kouyate, Lea Salonga, and Jayme Stone.
In the spring of 2020, faced with the cancellations of gigs, tours, and a number of musical projects, Ron did what many musicians did- decided to hone long-dormant chops at home. Picking up the double bass with bow firmly in hand, Ron’s goal was to explore the past 2 decades of contemporary classical double bass music. He was mightily discouraged when he discovered that there still isn’t much out there between the levels of ‘student’ and ‘major concerto’. Wondering what to do to encourage composers to write for the average double bass player – amateurs as well as professionals- and how to communicate with both double bassists and composers to connect the dots, Ron conceived of The Double Bass/Composer Project. He’s looking forward to hearing and playing the music that results!