Biography

Double Bassist:

For over 35 years Dr. Fowler has performed professionally as a double bassist in orchestras, pit orchestras, chamber ensembles, big bands, jazz combos, blues bands, praise bands and popular music ensembles.

From 1998 to 2009 Dr. Fowler was an Artist Faculty with the international summer music program Sessione Senese per la Musica e l’Arte in Siena, Italy. There he taught double bass, coached chamber ensembles, performed as soloist, and performed as principal double bassist with the Siena Summer Festival Chamber Orchestra, and Siena Summer Festival Opera.

Dr. Fowler has performed as principal and section double bassist with the Orchestra of Northern New York, Utica Symphony, Catskills Symphony, Glens Falls Symphony, Tri-Cities Opera, Peoria Symphony, Knox-Galesburg Symphony, Champaign-Urbana Symphony, Opera Illinois, Millikin Decatur Symphony, Five Cities Baroque Festival, and Peoria Bach Festival. He performed as a soloist and chamber musician with St. Martin Chamber Players, the Monmouth College Faculty Ensemble, and Tango Espejo for which he also composed and arranged music.

Completed in 2009, his doctoral studies included research in the performance practices of the Baroque, and Classical periods, and the music of Astor Piazzolla.

Music Educator:

Dr. Fowler has been a music educator for 24 years specializing in string instrument pedagogy. Dr. Fowler has been an elementary, middle school, and high school orchestra teacher in Decatur Public Schools since 2009. Former students have pursued degrees at Butler University, San Francisco Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Composer & Arranger:

Dr. Fowler started composing at age 14 his first composition “Dawn” premiered in 1991. In 2013 two compositions and arrangements of classic tangos were completed for the soundtrack to Deadly Embrace, a short film by Alric Rocha.