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Infobox musical artist|name = Edgar Meyer|image = Edgar Meyer performing at the 2006 RockyGrass Music Festival .jpg|caption = Meyer with his double bass .|Img_sizecgsvyhkiDJgkshiuvagkwduhskjvbeuahjd|birth_date = Birth date and age|1960|11|24|mf=y|death_date =|origin = Oak Ridge, Tennessee|Oak Ridge , Tennessee , United States|U.S. |instrument = Double Bass Piano Guitar Banjo Violin Mandolin Dobro |genre = Classical music|Classical Bluegrass music|Bluegrass Progressive bluegrass Jazz , World music |occupation = Musician Composer |years_active =|label = Sony Records|Sony Deutsche Grammophon Sugar Hill Records (bluegrass)|Sugar Hill |associated_acts = Nickel Creek , Strength in Numbers (band)|Strength In Numbers |website = http://www.edgarmeyer.com/ edgarmeyer.com|current_members =|past_members =| background=non_vocal_instrumentalist Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is a prominent contemporary double bass|bassist and composer . His styles include european classical music|classical , Bluegrass music|bluegrass , Progressive bluegrass|newgrass , and jazz . Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various Chamber music|chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger . His collaborators have spanned a wide range of musical styles and talents; among them are Joshua Bell , Yo-Yo Ma , Jerry Douglas , Béla Fleck , Zakir Hussain (musician)|Zakir Hussain , Sam Bush , James Taylor , Chris Thile , Mike Marshall (musician)|Mike Marshall , Mark O'Connor , Alison Krauss , Mary Chapin Carpenter , and the trio Nickel Creek .
Biography
Meyer grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee . He learned to play the double bass from his father, the late Edgar Meyer, Sr., who directed the string orchestra program for the local public school system. Meyer later went on to Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University to study with Stuart Sankey . http://oakridger.com/stories/050400/stt_0504000062.html
Meyer is noted for achieving virtuoso|virtuosity on an instrument of unusual technical difficulty. Following in the footsteps of other bass players like Gary Karr and Mark Bernat before him, he has tried a hand at performing music originally composed for other instruments, such as Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach 's unaccompanied cello suites .
Meyer has also composed a number of works, including two double bass concertos , a string quintet, a double concerto for double bass|bass and cello , and a violin concerto in 1999 composed specifically for Hilary Hahn .
In 2000, he won the Avery Fisher Prize , given once every few years to classical instrumentalists for outstanding achievement. In 2002, he was named a MacArthur Fellow . Meyer's collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor on the widely acclaimed Sony Classical disc Appalachia Waltz reached the top of the United States pop charts for 16 weeks when it was released. Meyer collaborated again with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor on Appalachian Journey, that earned a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album .cite web|url= http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp? composerid=15101& ttype=BIOGRAPHY& ttitle=Biography/ |title=Edgar Meyer Biography|publisher=Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.|accessdate=2008-08-11
On Meyer's self-titled 2006 Sony Classical release, he performs accompanied only by himself on a wide variety of instruments besides his usual piano and double bass , including guitar , banjo , viola da gamba , mandolin and dobro .
Meyer is Adjunct Associate Professor of Double Bass at Vanderbilt University 's Blair School of Music , as well as at Curtis Institute of Music|the Curtis Institute .cite web|url= http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Blair/faculty/faculty_strings.html |title=Blair Faculty
Discography
;Solo work
Unfolding (album)|Unfolding (1986)
Dreams of Flight (1987)
Work in Progress (Edgar Meyer album)|Work in Progress (1990)
Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites Performed on Double Bass (2000)
Meyer and Bottesini Concertos (2002)
Edgar Meyer (album)|Edgar Meyer (2006)
;With Jerry Douglas and Russ Barenberg
Skip, Hop, and Wobble (1993)
;With Béla Fleck and Mike Marshall (musician)|Mike Marshall
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