Johnny Hamil

Johnny Hamil graduated from Kansas University with a Bachelors of Music Education. He has studied Double Bass with Misha Krutz (K.C. Symphony), Lawrence Rice (Salt Lake Symphony) & François Rabbath (Paris, France). He is also founder and administrator to the Kansas City Bass Workshop (kcbassworkshop.com), a week-long intensive double bass festival now in its sixth year. He plays nationally and internationally in Mr. Marco’s V7, the Malachy Papers, rock bands ERIC, and Pamper the Madman. He has recorded many CDs with all of these groups and has many compositions/tunes on each record. Since his first gig was at 13 he has logged in more gigs than can be counted. Some highlights have been performing at the Telluride Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz festival, Music Action Festival (Nancy, France), International Society of Bassists Convention (San Francisco) and the George Vance Workshops. He also performs contemporary classical for the Kansas City based New Ear Ensemble. This is a small ensemble group in which he has performed such works by contemporary composer such as Xenakis, Kagel, Ligeti, and many more. He also works as a freelance and studio musician in and around the Kansas City area in the rock, jazz, and classical genres. Finally, he composes and performs his own solo Double Bass pieces as well as standard repertoire solo pieces in recitals. Johnny has been working on a new version of his band Mr. Marco’s v7 which incorporated all former members of the band and collaborated with 20 plus local singer song writers from the KC original music scene. The new group is called Gav7d.