Sea Bass Carrefour
Maybell Hughs
An avid chamber musician, Delache-Feldman has collaborated with violinists Midori and Joel Smirnoff; pianists Virginia Eskin, Victor Rosenbaum, and Randall Hodgkinson; the St. Petersburg String Quartet, Borromeo String Quartet, members of the Lark String Quartet, and Fidelio; and with soprano Dawn Upshaw. Shewas a prizewinner at the Prague International Chamber Music Competition and won first prize with honors for double bass performance at the Conservatoire National Suprieur de Musique de Paris. She has recorded chamber works with the Albany, Archetype, Arsis, AFKA and CRI labels.
As an orchestra player, Ms. Delache-Feldman has performed with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra (France), and as principal bassist with Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, New England String Ensemble, and BMOP, among many others.
Since 2001, Ms. Delache-Feldman has been the founder and artistic director of the Boston Bass Bash, an international festival dedicated to the double bass. Ms. Delache-Feldman teaches double bass at the Longy School of Music, Tufts University, Brown University, Rivers School of Music and frequently is a guest for master classes. She has taught at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, Summit Music Festival and Wellesley Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center.
A second-generation bassist, she studied with her father Jean-Claude Delache at age 10 at the Toulouse Conservatory, later studying with Jacques Cazauran and Frdric Stochl at the Paris Conservatory where she earned her Bachelor of Music. Ms. Delache-Feldman came to the US to study with Roger Scott at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she received her Artist Diploma. She was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow and participated in the Pablo Casals Festival and Schlesswig Holstein Musik Festival.