Samuel Shuhan, a senior at Ithaca College, is pursuing a degree in performance while studying double bass with Dr. Nicholas Walker. He has stayed active playing in many different orchestras including the Tanglewood Youth Orchestra, World Youth Symphony Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and Ithaca College Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. Shuhan has attended summer programs such as Tanglewood, the Peabody Bass Workshop, and most recently Domaine Forget where he had the opportunity to study with master and pedagogue François Rabbath. In 2011, Shuhan won the Lee Strebel Memorial Youth Concerto Competition and in the following year performed as a soloist with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. Although he has a strong background in classical music, Shuhan stays as active as he can performing jazz, singer-songwriter, fusion, and other groove styles.

Mr. Shuhan will appear in John Luther Adams’s Immeasurable Space of Tones on the festival’s first concert on Thursday, March 5.