Brian Glassman Double Bass, Bass Guitar- acoustic/electric Brian is a master of many musical genres: Classical, Rock, Latin, R&B, Cabaret and is renowned for his work in Jazz and the world music genre known as Klezmer. Klezmer / Yiddish and Jewish music stars such as The Klezmatics, Andy Statman, Frank London, Alicia Svigals, Michael Alpert, Greg Wall, Adrienne Cooper, Joanne Borts, Neshama Carlebach, The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene all call upon Brian for hisunique expertise in this musical style. He has also performed with many legendary stars of Jazz like Paquito di 'Rivera, John and Bucky Pizzarelli, Lionel Hampton, Benny Golson, James Moody, Gary Burton, Randy Brecker, Billy Cobham, Larry Coryell and Popular American Song Book artists including Liza Minnelli, Margaret Whiting, Michael Feinstein, and Anne Hampton Callaway, and Stephen Schwartz. Brian has performed nation wide and throughout the world and on six different tours as an honored Musical Ambassador for The U.S. Dept. of State. Since 2013 Brian has been on the faculty at The Thurnauer School of Music Tenafly, NJ and has been a Lecturer and Instructor of Jazz Bass at Princeton University since 2003

Awards

2007 Named as one of the world's 100 most important Klezmer Musicians by The Museum at Eldridge Street, NY, NY 2010 Chosen as a Musical Ambassador by Jazz At Lincoln Center and The United States Department of State 2011 Bistro Award Outstanding Achievement