Wednesday night the world's most renown tubist, Oystein Baadsvik, performed at Jacksonville State. His Web site describes him best:Oystein Baadsvik is the only tuba player to have carved out a career exclusively as a soloist, rather than becoming a member of an orchestra or accepting a teaching post. His multi-faceted musical career as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist has taken him all over the world. the unique virtuosity and musicality Mr. Baadsvik brings to the tuba has established him as the exemplar of the instrument.
Mr. Baadsvik's phenomenal instrumental ability and genuinely humble and humorous personality made for an unforgettable evening. No matter what instrument you play, or even if you just enjoy music, you'll love his style and showmanship. Even the vocal and flute majors learned something from him!
When Mr. Baadsvik was telling the audience how he became so good at playing the tuba, he said growing up there was not much to do in the Norweigen countryside. He said he didn't ski and didn't shoot moose, so he practiced the tuba and created exciting innovational techniques brass players around the world are trying to mimic today. One look at his face during a performance and your know he is passionate about what he does...and he is pretty darn good at it too.
3 comments:
You KNOW I watched the whole video and loved it. I miss going to little recital-type concerts like this from when I majored in the music stuff at UGA (though I mostly resented being REQUIRED to go to stuff like this then). It was free and, in probably a dorky way, fun!
Mark Touchton will love this! How fun. Thanks for sharing.
thats pretty awesome haha but hes got Nothing on Mark
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