Mário Franco
Mário Franco (born 20 October 1965 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese dancer, double bass player and a composer. Studies Mário Franco started music lessons at the age of 4 in Centro de Estudos Gregorianos and continued his studies in :pt:Academia de Amadores de Música, Academia de Amadores de Música, and where he started double bass lessons with Fernando Flores, and composition with Pedro Rocha as well as studying chamber music. He studied bass guitar with António Ferro, Double Bass with David Gausden in Escola de Jazz do :pt:Hot Clube de Portugal, Hot Clube de Portugal; and took part in workshops with Rufus Reid, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Niels Henning Orsted Pederson, Eberhard Weber. In 1986-87, he attended double-bass courses given by Ludwig Streicher in Estoril and in 1988 won 1st prize in the Prémio Jovens Musicos (Young Musicians Competition); later became a member of Orquestra Sinfonica Juvenil where he worked on classical repertory with conductor Christopher Bochmann ...
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Double Bass
The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar in structure to the cello, it has four, although occasionally five, strings. The bass is a standard member of the orchestra's string section, along with violins, viola, and cello, ''The Orchestra: A User's Manual''
, Andrew Hugill with the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as the concert band, and is featured in Double bass concerto, concertos, solo, and chamber music in European classical music, Western classical music.Alfred Planyavsky

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