Ferrabosco Fantasias - Stylistic Observations
Bruce Bellingham
Author's Biographical Notes

Bruce Bellingham retired from the University of Connecticut in 2003, after teaching there for 29 years. Previously, he taught at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and was a teaching fellow at his Alma Mater, the University of Toronto. He also led the Collegium Musicum early-music ensembles in Rochester and U of CT, and was Chair of the Collegium Musicum Committee for the American Musicological Society in the mid-1970s. He was Vice-President and President of the Viola da Gamba Society of America from 1975 to 1978. Besides editing the Ferrabosco Four-Part Fantasias with Andrew Ashbee, he previously edited bicinia publications for A-R Editions and Bärenreiter Verlag.

Bruce has been playing the Double Bass for over 50 years in Jazz, Theater, Dance, Chamber, Early-Music and Symphony orchestras, and plays all sizes of Viola da Gamba, from Treble to Violone.

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