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  • Home
  • Apply Now!
    • 2022 Secondary Division and Bass Works Fundamentals
    • 2022 Alumni Weekend
    • 2022 Intern Program
    • 2022 Associate Staff
    • 2022 Full Time Staff
  • Pay Now!
    • Refund Policy
  • 2022 Programs
    • Bass Works Fundamentals
    • Secondary Division
    • Staff Positions
  • Faculty
    • Andrea Beyer
    • Matthew Boggs
    • Paul DeNola
    • Caroline Emery
    • Barbara Fitzgerald
    • Ira Gold
    • Brandon Harris
    • Alec Hiller
    • Yoshi Horiguchi
    • Andres Martin
    • Michael Martin
    • Gaelen McCormick
    • Blake Meister
    • Kimberly Parillo
    • Colin O'Bryan
    • Tracy Rowell
    • Sam Suggs
    • Wesley Thompson
    • Jeffrey Weisner
    • Derek Zadinsky
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    • Marginalized Genders Scholarship >
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Colin O'Bryan
Howard County Public Schools

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Colin O’Bryan started playing jazz bass in third grade. After accidentally picking up a bow at a summer camp in high school, he tumbled down a path of youth orchestras, fuzzy articulation and questionable intonation, before coming to rest at the Peabody Institute. Under the calm guiding hand of Paul Johnson, Colin cleaned up both his articulation and his intonation and found a fascination with education. He currently occupies the podium as the Orchestra Director at Reservoir High School as well as the Director of the Howard County High School GT Symphony Orchestra. 

A passionate educator and musician, Colin thrives on the community that exists at Bass Works. He strives to show every player the entirety of what they can be as a bassist and member of that larger bass community. He is he son of a guitarist/singer/pianist, the brother of a trumpet player, the husband of a violinist/violist/cellist, the father of a trumpet player and also a second year Bass Works camper. He believes that music makes you part of something special, and if you are part of something special you have a duty to include others in it. Colin has been a part of Bass Works since its inception, and wonders why nothing like this existed when he was a kid. If it had, maybe his articulation would have been less fuzzy and his intonation entirely unquestionable.

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