Nicholas Arredondo
bass, Alicia Miñana and Rob Lovelace LA Phil Resident Fellow Chair
Double bassist Nicholas Arredondo began studying bass with Don Hermanns and Ted Botsford before attending the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where he continued his studies with Peter Lloyd. Arredondo has been a finalist and won top prizes in major competitions including the Sphinx Competition, YoungArts, and the Vancouver Symphony Concerto Competition. Arredondo has had the opportunity to tour the world as principal double bass under the batons of conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Stéphane Denève, and Esa-Pekka Salonen and in major halls such as Suntory, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Usher, and Ozawa.
