SATURDAY, APRIL 12
Prelude In B series presents performance:
Timothy Pitts The art of Solo Bass
3:00 PM, FREE
Horizon Records is offering a special opportunity to meet bassist and Greenville native Tim Pitts at a “Prelude in B” event on Saturday, April 12 at 3:00 p.m. Pitts will give a brief performance free of charge and be available for questions afterwards.
For the Horizon Records event, call (864) 235-7922

Timothy Pitts appears with the Greenville Symphony Chamber Orchestra in the premiere of John Harbison’s Double Bass Concerto.
Friday-Saturday-Sunday April 11-12-13 at The Peace Center
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Greenville native Tim Pitts returns to his hometown to perform contemporary composer John Harbison’s Double Bass Concerto – commissioned by the International Society of Bassists for a select group of orchestras, including the GSO.
COPLAND: Appalachian Spring Suite (original)
JOHN HARBISON: Double Bass Concerto
KODALY: Dances of Galanta
IBERT: Divertimento

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TIMOTHY PITTS, principal bass of the Houston Symphony, graduated with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music where his teachers were Lawrence Wolfe and Edwin Barker. In 1979 he was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to attend Tanglewood, and, while there, was the recipient of the Gustav Golden Award.

Pitts was a member of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1985 to 1992, at which time he joined the Houston Symphony as principal bass. He has also held the position of principal bass with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and with the Handel and Haydn Society. An active chamber musician, Pitts has appeared as a guest artist with the Boston Musica Viva, the M.I.T. Chamber Players, the Amabile and Los Angeles Piano Quartets, and the Cleveland Octet. He has collaborated with such artists as Arnold Steinhardt, Christoph Eschenbach, Laurence Lesser, Heinz Holliger, and on numerous occasions, with the Vermeer Quartet. As a member of the Houston Symphony Chamber Players, he toured Germany and Japan and performed at the Ravinia Festival. Additional performances include appearances as soloist with the Houston and Savannah Symphonies as well as the Midwest Bass Symposium, the Bay Chamber Concerts, Mainly Mozart, and the Skaneateles and Pacific Music Festivals.

As an educator, Pitts has given master classes at the National Orchestral Institute in College Park, Maryland, the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. Formerly on the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory, he is currently Associate Professor of Double Bass at the Shepherd School of Music.
—The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University