Garth Stevenson is a Brooklyn-based film composer and double bassist. Raised in the mountains of Western Canada, nature became his primary inspiration and the common thread between his life and music. In recent years he has released two full-length solo albums, informed by carrying his 150-year-old double bass to the woods, the beach, and the desert.
His most recent and critically acclaimed release, Flying, is a seventy-five minute homage to a life-changing trip to Antarctica. Of Flying, iTunes praised: "Garth Stevenson joins the likes of Brian Eno and Sigur Rós as a practitioner of this ethereal yet accessible genre." Flying was featured on WNYC's New Sounds radio program and on the main page of iTunes.
His month-long journey to Antarctica took place on an ice-breaker full of renowned artists. Stevenson played his double bass to seals, penguins, and icebergs while composing the score and acting in a feature film. One evening, mid-crossing between South Georgia and Antarctica, he gave a concert at sunset on the bow of the ship — improvising with his loop pedal and imitating whale calls on the bass — and twelve sei whales came and swam next to the vessel.
Garth joins the 2027 Berkshire Yoga Festival faculty, June 10–13 at Jiminy Peak in Hancock, MA. Join him for live music that carries the mountains, the sea, and the wild into the festival weekend.
