Kurt Muroki

Tenured Professor of Music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Kurt Muroki began his musical studies on the violin and went on to study the double bass at the Juilliard School of Music with Homer R. Mensch. Kurt has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, and Tokyo quartets among others. Festivals include Marlboro Music Festival, Festival L'Autonne at IRCAM, and Aspen Music Fesival to name a few. Kurt is also active playing movies, commercials, popular, and classical recordings with titles including the Oscar winning film "The Departed", "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", "Julie and Julia", "Moonrise Kingdom", The Who, Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Itzhak Perlman . He has performed concerto tours throughout Asia and the United States. Mr Muroki is also a D'Addario Strings Artist and helped develop the Kaplan medium tension bass strings. Mr. Muroki is the director of the Kaplan Fellowship Program at the Bowdoin International Music Festival and a New School Concerts Music Advisory Committee member. Kurt plays on a double bass once owned by the famous double bassist Domenico Dragonetti and attributed to Nicolo Amati circa 1665 and a fantastic ergonomic bass by Arnold Schnitzer.