With the Cape Symphony. Photo Credit
Rhode Island-born bassist Joseph Bentley enjoys a career as an active performer, and educator throughout New England.
As a soloist Joseph has performed with the Narragansett Bay Symphony, Wheaton College Sinfonietta, and the Rhode Island College chamber orchestra, and regularly performs in faculty recitals and in various solo engagements throughout the region.
Joseph has performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, New Bedford Symphony, Symphony New Hampshire, the Cape Symphony, the Community MusicWorks players, Gloria Dei Artes, the London Firebird Orchestra, and the London Arts Orchestra.
Comfortable in many styles of playing, Joseph also has extensive musical theatre experience, working at Providence’s Trinity Repertory Company and the historic Theatre by the Sea in Matunuck, RI.
Joseph directs the double bass studios at Wheaton College, and the University of Rhode Island– where he also lectures and coaches the URI String Quartet– and is the director of the chamber music program at the internationally-renowned Portsmouth Abbey School.
Joseph studied with Duncan McTier, Graham Mitchell, and Rodney Stewart at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he earned his MA in 2013. Before that, Joseph earned his B.M. from Rhode Island College where he studied with Eliot Porter. Joseph has played in master classes for Bozo Paradzik, Dominic Seldis, and Matthew McDonald.
Credentials:
MA, Royal Academy of Music, 2013 – Marylebone Student Award, Frank Britton Award
BM, Rhode Island College – Cantor Jacob Hohenemser Performance Award