Andrew Kohn
Assistant Professor - Double Bass
Andrew Kohn teaches double bass, music theory, and Music in World
Cultures at West Virginia University. He holds his Ph.D. from the
University of Pittsburgh and received the only AD in double bass
awarded by the Peabody Conservatory. His principal teachers have
included Eric Moe, Pablo Ortiz, Eugene Levinson, Eldon Obrecht, and
Barry Green. Performance credits include the Baltimore, Cincinnati, and
Pittsburgh Symphonies, and principal of the National Chamber Orchestra
and Harrisburg Symphonies; he is currently a member of the Pittsburgh
Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestras, and an active soloist. His
publications have appeared in the book On the Music of Stefan Wolpe
(ed. Austin Clarkson) and the journals American String Teacher, Bass
World, Double Reed, Fulcrum, Muzyka, Perspectives of New Music; he has read papers at Wolpe Symposia and AMS and SEM conferences. He has
recorded and edited for Music Minus One. His compositions have been
broadcast nationally.
