ISB Center Stage Rick Stotijn and Joel Quarrington 

Next up on the ISB Center Stage, we welcome two remarkable artists, Rick Stotijn and Joel Quarrington.

Rick Stotijn studied double bass at the Conservatory in Amsterdam with his father Peter Stotijn, and continued his studies with Bozo Paradzik at the Hochchule in Freiburg, Germany. He has won a number of competitions and was awarded the highest accolade for a musician in the Netherlands, the Dutch Music Prize. An in-demand international soloist and chamber musician, he is principal bass with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and professor of double bass at the Robert Shumann Hochschule in Dusseldorf, Germany. His latest recording, "Reports from the Low Country," featuring new music of Dutch composers, was nominated for an Edison Award, the top honor for a recording in the Netherlands.

Joel Quarrington has championed the double bass for decades as a world renowned soloist, recitalist, chamber and orchestra musician, recording artist and educator. He is principal bass of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and teaches in the summers at the Orford Arts Centre, where his master classes attract players from around the world. He also teaches at the University of Ottawa and is a Visiting Artist at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Joel has released a number of acclaimed recordings, including "Garden Scene," which won Canada's Juno Award in 2010 as outstanding classical recording, and his latest, "An Die Musik," celebrating the music of Schubert. Joel's latest project is his "Canadian School of Double Bass" method, available in editions for tuning in both fourth and fifths.