Biography

Dr. William Koehler is Professor of Illinois State University where he teaches applied double bass, string pedagogy, graduate courses in psychology of music, and improvisation. Bill Koehler has performed in England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Russia, Belo-Russia, Puerto Rico, and throughout the U.S. He has recently completed a book entitled A Guide to the Developmental Processes of Improvisation and Composition, which will be released soon. His Solo Bass CD, entitled "Glimpse" features original compositions in jazz, and world fusion idioms, as well as classical pieces for unaccompanied solo bass.

Bill has performed in numerous Orchestras in his native New York City, the Southeast, the Midwest, and performed with notable jazz and improvising musicians such as Sam Brown, Joe Tecula, Joel Smirnoff, Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Harold Seletsky, John Clark, Dave Burrell, Joe Morello, John Campbell, Carl Fontana, Dave Burrell, Jimmy Guiffre, Richard Davis, John Clayton, Rufus Reed, David Baker, Harvey Phillips, Turk Van Lake, and Nashville country music producer Byron Gallimore.

Dr. Koehler is a frequent clinician, and writer on bass pedagogy. He is a regular clinician/performer at the Richard David Festival, the International Society of Bassists, and various Bass Symposia. He has written articles and reviewed new music for string bass and string orchestra for the American String Teacher, and the ISB. Dr. Koehler has a number of transcriptions and original compositions for solo double bass, which are available through Schorer Publications in Munich, Germany.

One of his early research interests involves the application of biofeedback to study physiology and to aid the reduction of excess muscle tension in string playing. He has illustrated double bass techniques and made Editorial contributions in the two editions of Robert Klotman's string education textbook entitled Teaching Strings.

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