BIOGRAPHY
Tod
Hedrick
Cell phone: 917-520-3747
tod.hedrick@gmail.com
A
freelance double bassist in the New York City area, Tod Hedrick has
amassed an extensive and varied list of performing experience. As an
orchestral bassist, he plays with the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra,
Greenwich Symphony, and Gateway Classical Music Society in
Connecticut and the St. Thomas Orchestra in Mamaroneck, New York, as
well as the Bar Harbor (ME) Music Festival and numerous small
orchestras, opera companies and chamber groups.
As a jazz bassist, Tod has played at many of New York's most
important venues. For more than four years he worked with various
jazz pianists at Birdland during their Saturday evening happy hour.
He has also been featured with main billing groups there, including
the David Epstein Trio when they opened for ''Little'' Jimmy Scott,
and as well as for a Lee Morgan tribute. With other instrumental
jazz groups Tod has performed at Small’s Jazz Club, Kavehaz, Bar 55,
Cornelia Street Café, Louis Bar, Cleopatra's Needle, The Knitting
Factory, Tagine, CB's Gallery, Bowery Poetry Club, Sofia's
Restaurant, the jazz series at St. Peter's Church, and others. As a
jazz composer, Tod writes for his quartet and also composed music to
accompany Canadian poet Leanne Averbach. He has curated and
performed for a ''Jazz at Noon'' series for the Greenwich Arts
Council.
Tod's jazz septet has performed in the Atrium at Madison Square
Garden before the NBA playoffs, and his quartet has appeared
regularly at ''Sunday Afternoons Live'' at the First Congregational
Church, Old Greenwich, CT, and at the Friday Night Jazz Series at
SoundWaters, Stamford, CT. He has mounted a benefit for the
Greenwich High School Band and was invited to perform at their
annual benefit. The Tod Hedrick Quartet played a sold-out cabaret
concert as part of the Music Series at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich.
The evening featured notable jazz repertoire from 1930-1960 with
commentary referencing the American art exhibit from the
Smithsonian. He is also part of a trio that plays twice a year in
the Hotel Therme in Vals, Switzerland.
An accomplished music theatre and cabaret bassist, Tod performed
with West Side Story, in Macau, China; a musical revue in Iceland
and Scotland with World Stage Concerts & Tours, and many school
productions of musicals, such as Guys and Dolls, Hello Dolly,
Cabaret and Urinetown. He has accompanied cabaret and jazz singers
such as Daryl Sherman, Trudi Mann, and Cookie Thomas at Danny's,
Don't Tell Mama's, Judy's of Chelsea, Mama Rose's, and Odette's in
New Hope, PA.
Tod plays with rock groups as well, such as the folk/rock singer
''Jacob,'' performing at the Sidewalk Café and Arlene Grocery, and
is a regular member of Erika Weander's group, Station 23, playing
several times a year at The Bitter End, and who was featured at the
annual Songwriters' Showcase at the Cutting Room in 2006.
Recording credits include the preliminary CD for a new musical,
''After All,'' and ''Process of Self Development'' with the heavy
metal band, Candiria (Coma Productions). He also played on the 1999
and 2001 CD's of the NYU Concert Jazz Ensemble.
Tod is an Adjunct Professor of double bass at Fairfield University
in Connecticut, teaching classical bass as well as jazz. He also has
many students in Connecticut and New York through the Riverside
School of Music. In addition, he has taught music theory courses to
small groups of string students.
Tod received a Bachelor of Music with a concentration in jazz
performance from New York University in May 2001. He was named
Student of the Year in Music Theory Studies in April 1999 and
received the Mike Richmond Bass Award in May 2001.
TOD HEDRICK
Cell 917-520-3747
tod.hedrick@gmail.com
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