Michael Montgomery: New Heights: Five Duets for Two Double Basses

About the Collection New Heights is a collection of five inventive and enjoyable double bass duets by American bassist-composer Michael Montgomery. Bass 1 plays entirely in harmonics and bass 2 is in bass clef and in the lower register of the instrument, enabling them to be performed by the teacher and a student, two students or friends.  Ideal as recital repertoire or study material, each duet offers fun and effective musical and technical challenges in equal measure, and could be repeated with each bassist changing parts. None outstay their welcome and all are colourful and engaging, offering a new style of double bass duet.  Listen to Michael perform these works on his YouTube playlist. A note from the Composer “When I began studying the double bass many years ago, the harmonics on the instrument were something of a mystery to me and my fellow students. Those of us who began our double bass journey with Simandl’s “New Method” worked for quite some time in the “orchestral” register