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YOUTUBE RECORDING PREMIERE - ANDRES MARTIN: Cello+DoubleBass - NOVEMBER 1
DOUBLE BASS, MUSIC THEORY & COMPOSITION
Joe McNalley
Joe McNalley is a composer, bassist, educator, and the founder and artistic director of the Hutchins Consort. His career spans classical, jazz, and world music realms, uniting a spirit of exploration with a lifelong commitment to performance, composition, and teaching.
McNalley began studying music in childhood and composing orchestral music in his early teens. A professional musician by fifteen and an educator by seventeen, he studied at the New England Conservatory of Music with Edwin Barker, Ran Blake, Miroslav Vitous, and Hankus Netsky before pursuing advanced studies with Bertram Turetzky at the University of California, San Diego. His musical education also included private study with MacArthur Fellow Ran Blake, advanced music theory with MacArthur Fellow George Lewis, and coursework in theory and composition with Tom Nee and Wil Ogden.
Throughout his career, McNalley has collaborated with seven Pulitzer Prize winners and eight MacArthur Fellows. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Brant entrusted him with completing his final composition. His performance collaborations include George Russell, Vinnie Golia, Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham’s Sweet Baby Blues Band, Jay McShann, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, and Thad Jones. He has received multiple honors for solo and chamber music performances.
His compositions encompass orchestral and chamber music, dance, theatre, film, and television. His music was featured in Liquid Stage, a documentary that received an Emmy Award for music, as well as in numerous other screen productions. He has created over 250 arrangements and original compositions for the Hutchins Consort, expanding the repertoire and expressive possibilities of these distinctive instruments.
An experienced and versatile educator, McNalley has taught at the elementary and middle schools, college, and postgraduate levels. His lectures have been presented by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bowers Museum, and the Museum of Making Music, among other institutions.