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Pete Walsh is a double bass player based in Boston, MA. He enjoys a vibrant, musically diverse career compromised of orchestral work, chamber music, historical performance, jazz and electric bass, and everything in between.

As an orchestral musician he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Lyric Opera, and Odyssey Opera. Pete is Principal Bass of the Boston Festival Orchestra, Principal Bass of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, and Assistant Principal Bass of the Cape Cod Symphony.

Pete is particularly passionate about small ensemble playing and is Principal Bass with the Boston based ‘Phoenix’ Chamber Orchestra and Principal Guest Artist with Juventas New Music Ensemble. As a guest artist he has appeared with A Far Cry, the Boston Symphony Double Bass Section, Walden Chamber Players, Rasa String Quartet, Fine Arts Quartet, and many others.

Pete also enjoys performing early music and studying historical performance practices. He has performed with the Handel and Haydn Society, Connecticut Early Music Society, Emmanuel Music’s Bach Cantata Series, and Marsh Chapel Collegium.

He received both his B.M. and M.M. at Boston University studying with Benjamin Levy and Edwin Barker, respectively, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He additionally studied historical performance with Heather Miller-Lardin, Principal Bass of the Handel and Haydn Society.