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Dr.
Alexander Pershounin serves as the full-time Assistant Professor of
Double Bass and Bass Guitar at Minnesota
State University
Moorhead. He has performed in internationally renowned
music events including the Montreux Jazz Festival,
Switzerland; Pori Jazz Festival, Finland;
Europe Jazz Contest, Belgium; as well as various festivals,
concerts, and lecture recitals in Italy, France,
Germany, Switzerland, Belgium,
Finland, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, and many cities
of the Russian Federation and United States. His
performing credits include collaborative projects
and appearances with world class artists and ensembles
including Bob Berg, Benny Golson, Valery Ponomarev,
Tom "Bones" Malone, Ray
Charles, Yo Yo Ma, Doc Severinsen, "MKC Big Band," "Jazz
Gallery," "Melody," "Plus Eleven Quartet," and "Green
Wave." He has also recorded several commercially produced compact
disc albums and music to four full-length motion pictures.
Pershounin graduated from Russia's most prestigious
musical institutions: Gnessins' State Music College
and Gnessins' Russian Academy of Music majoring in
Double Bass Performance and Jazz Studies. His professional
music career started at the age of sixteen when, leading
and participating in numerous music projects, he began
extensively concertizing throughout Europe. He came
to the United States in 1998 and received his Master
of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the
University of Southern Mississippi. His doctoral dissertation,
The Three-String Solo Double Bass: Origins, Advantages,
and Decline, presents the instrument in a new light.
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