Andrew Wilson, Double Bass

Andrew Wilson has been a professional freelance double bassist in Boston and the New England area since 1986. A frequent performer with the Portland Symphony and Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestras, he is principal bass of Camerata New England, and was a member of the former New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra. Performances have include tours of Europe and South America, opera, chamber music, the occasional popular music show, and Equity theater productions in Boston. A student of Richard Hartshorne and the late Stuart Sankey, Wilson received his performance degree with distinction from Indiana University School of Music, also participating in the Apple Hill and Aspen Music Festivals.

Andrew Wilson has been on the staff of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library of the Harvard College Library, Harvard University, since 1999, currently serving as Access Services Librarian.

Growing up in Concord, NH, the later home of double bass-maker Abraham Prescott, Wilson has studied the history of New Hampshire's most prominent 19th century musical instrument maker throughout his professional life, publishing on the subject in Double Bassist magazine, in 2003. In April 2009, Wilson debuted a fully-restored Abraham Prescott double bass, a project in the planning for almost 20 years. Managing the restoration on behalf of the New Hampshire Antiquarian Society, Hopkinton, NH, this instrument is one of the finest examples of a master Prescott instrument, brought to a state of modern professional performance standard, while preserving its extraordinary original condition.

Andrew Wilson lives in Ayer, MA, with his musician wife and young son.