Edgar Meyer

Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is an American bassist, multi-instrumentalist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger. His collaborators have spanned a wide range of musical styles and talents; among them are Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Sam Bush, James Taylor, Chris Thile, Mike Marshall, Mark O'Connor, Alison Krauss, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Guy Clark, and the trio Nickel Creek.

Meyer participates yearly in a bluegrass super group in Telluride, Colorado, at their annual Bluegrass Festival known as the House Band. The band also consists of Meyer's contemporaries Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, and Stuart Duncan.

Biography

Meyer grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He learned to play the double bass from his father, the late Edgar Meyer, Sr., who directed the string orchestra program for the local public school system. Meyer later went on to Indiana University to study with Stuart Sankey.

Edgar Meyer (album)

Edgar Meyer is the 2006 solo album from the artist of the same name. Unlike Meyer's other albums, Meyer is the only musician on this album, accompanying himself on double-bass, piano, mandolin, dobro, guitar and gamba. It was released on Sony Classical.

Personal

Track listing

All tracks recorded and composed by Meyer.

References

Edgar Meyer (painter)

Edgar Meyer (1853–1925) was an Austrian painter who built himself a castle and engaged in politics.

Life

Professor Edgar Meyer was born on 5 September 1853 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. His parents were Martin Meyer (1821–1897),(a prosperous businessman, painter, poet and compiler of folksongs) and Theresia Megucher (1826–1905). He studied at the Akademie der Bildenkünste in Munich and from 1874 to 1878 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the direction of Eugene Dücker. He extended his studies by visiting Rome and Venice. In Düsseldorf between 1880–1881 he was a member of an association of artists and academics called Malkasten (also known as Paintbox). From 1886 as Professor he taught at the Kunstschule Weimar (later Bauhaus University). He was also Professor at Charlottenburg-Berlin.

Meyer's preferred medium was watercolour and his impressionist styled landscapes, mountain scenes and castles were popular, particularly in Germany where they sold well. Meyer's paintings can be found at the Tiroler Landesmuseum (Ferdinandeum), Innsbruck and in private collections around the world. Towards the end of the nineteenth century the progression of Revolutionary Art caused his work to lose favour and he returned to the Tyrol.