John Kennedy

John Kennedy is nationally recognized as a clinician teaching the Young Bassist. This is his fifth year at the Golden Gate Bass Camp, and he is also a clinician at the Richard Davis Workshop in Madison, Wisconsin, the Troy Bass Workshop in Michigan, and the Elgin Suzuki Workshop in Illinois. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Bassists and directs the Young Bassists Program at their International Conventions. Mr. Kennedy is Principal Bass of the Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra, and was formerly Associate Principal Bass of the Honolulu Symphony and the Santa Fe Symphony. He is orchestra director at Fisher Middle School in the Detroit Public Schools, and has an active private studio. He holds his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in String Bass Performance from the University of Michigan, and studied with Larry Hurst, Robert Gladstone, and Diana Gannett.