Levee Stadel - Double Bass Teacher
Levee Stadel, was born and raised in a small Wisconsin town just outside of Milwaukee. Part of a musical family, he dabbled in piano and guitar as a child and settled in electric bass at age 11. After being self-taught on the double bass to play in his high school jazz band, Levee went on to study double bass with Josh Schwalbach at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. While at UWEC, he also studied and received a bachelor’s degree in music composition with Chiayu Hsu. Levee moved to Pittsburgh to study with Micah Howard and Peter Guild of the Pittsburgh Symphony at Carnegie Mellon University to earn a Master's degree and two Advanced Music Studies certificates in double bass performance.
As a performer, Levee is Principal Bass of the Altoona Symphony, a member of the bass section in the Youngstown Symphony, and is a substitute musician in various orchestras between Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. He also manages the L.B. Stadel String Ensemble, a group that specializes in music for events.
Levee has written and arranged works for a wide variety of ensembles ranging from symphony orchestra and wind ensemble to middle school band to trios for drumset, bass guitar, and tape. He has worked with Eighth Blackbird and yMusic along with personal arrangements and transcriptions to expand the double bass repertoire.