Ödön Rácz MY DOUBLE BASS

Ödön Rácz was born in Budapest on 6 September 1981 and began to learn to play the double bass at the tender age of nine.
He continued his studies at the St. Stephan Music Conservatory with Gergely Járdányi, a student of Ludwig Streicher.
In 2001 he transferred to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna where he was accepted into the class of Alois Posch.

Following a successful audition, Ödön Rácz joined the double bass group of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra on 1 September 2004. He has been double bass soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra since 2009.
The latest album from Ödön Rácz, My Double Bass showcases the eponymous instrument’s strengths and versatility in music spanning continents from Bottesini, Piazzolla, and Rota. Rácz collaborates with Noah Bendix-Balgley, the American violinist and present concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, alongside the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Speranza Scappucci, the general music director of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.