Stephen Tramontozzi

Stephen Tramontozzi serves as San Francisco Symphony Assistant Principal Bass, occupying the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Chair. A native of Arlington, MA, he studied at the Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, and the San Francisco Conservatory, and joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1980. In the Summers he serves as Principal Bass with the Sun Valley Music Festival. A member of the faculties at the San Francisco Conservatory and the University of California, Berkeley, Mr. Tramontozzi has also led master classes across the US, and he has coached members of the SFS Youth Orchestra bass section since its inception  in 1981. He also formerly served on the faculties of Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has produced five solo CDs, “Walkabout”, “Home Bass”, “Urban Bass”, Basso Novo” and Basso Antico available on the various music streaming services(Spotify, Prime, Apple Music etc.). They include a variety of music for double bass and piano or other instruments which he performs with Keisuke Nakagoshi on piano and with members of the SF Symphony. Other recordings include the Books of Madrigals by George Crumb aunder his supervision; the keyboard concertos of J.S. Bach with Awadagin Pratt and the Saint Lawrence Quartet; and a CD of chamber music by Lou Harrison. His publications include The Solo Cello Suites of J.S. Bach for Double Bass Nos. 1,2,3,4,5 and various other works for double bass.