Heather Miller Lardin

BASS

Historical double bass specialist Heather Miller Lardin has appeared with many early music ensembles and festivals including Tempesta di Mare, Boston Early Music Festival, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Staunton Music Festival, Tafelmusik, Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and Brandywine Baroque. Along with flutist Steven Zohn, Lardin directs Night Music, a Philadelphia-based chamber ensemble dedicated to music of the Revolutionary and Romantic eras.

Lardin teaches Baroque double bass for Juilliard Historical Performance and directs the Temple University Early Music Ensemble. She regularly serves on the faculties of the Amherst Baroque Academy and the Viola da Gamba Society of America Conclave and has created a self-paced Baroque Double Bass course for discoverdoublebass.com. Recent masterclasses have included Peabody Conservatory, Yale University, James Madison University, and Oberlin Conservatory.

A recipient of the International Society of Bassists Special Recognition Awards in both Historical Performance and Scholarship, Lardin trained at the Curtis Institute of Music and holds a DMA in Historical Performance Practice from Cornell University. She lives outside of Philadelphia.