<p>Rob Nairn is at Penn State-a great teacher. S worked with Rob at EMF a couple of summers ago and considered working with him in grad school but elected to go elsewhere-nothing to do with Rob just wanted a bigger city and grad program. Rob also teaches at Julliard and is into Baroque period music/instruments. He grew up in Australia and trained in Germany for his grad work.</p>
<p>Too back you did not meet Lenny when you went to ECU. I don’t really know anything about ECU as a whole, just that Lenny is an excellent teacher. You may also want to look at CCM (Cincinnati) since you are looking at Penn State- not too far away from Penn. Al Laszlo teaches at CCM and has an excellent reputation as a teacher. Duquesne in Pittsburgh would also be another good undergrad bass program to check out in Pa. Jeff Turner is there. Temple University in Philadelphia also has a good program with members of the Philadelphia Symphony as teachers. Joseph Conyers is one of them.</p>
<p>You may want to make appointments with the teachers for a trial lesson when you visit.</p>
<p>Can’t help with Maryland as I don’t know anything about the teachers. </p>