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D. Tyler Abbott
(541) 346-3771
tylerabbott@hotmail.com

Tyler Abbott is a member of the Eugene Symphony and the Eugene Opera Orchestra, and also performs with the Spokane Symphony, Oregon Festival of American Music’s American Symphonietta, the OSU/Corvallis Symphony, and other groups in the region. He has performed and/or recorded with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Washington East Opera, Walla Walla Symphony, Mid-Columbia Symphony, Eastern Oregon Symphony, North Bay (San Francisco) Symphony Orchestra, Whitman College Orchestra, and others.

Abbott's teaching experience includes serving as Visiting Instructor of Music Theory at Walla Walla College, where he taught undergraduate courses in Form and Analysis, second-year Music Theory, Counterpoint, Aural Skills, Instrumentation, and applied lessons in double bass. During that time, he served as director of Con Brio, a string orchestra at Rogers Elementary School in College
Place, Washington. At the UO he was a GTF in the string department, as well as in the composition department, where he served as co-director of Hundredth Monkey, a student-run contemporary music ensemble. He continues to maintain a private teaching studio in Eugene.

As a jazz bassist, Abbott has performed with some of the Northwest’s finest players, including Randy Porter, Tom Grant, Nancy King, George Mitchell, Arnie Caruthers, grammy-award winner Howard Levy, Warren Rand, John Stowell, and others. He is the bass player for the Lily Wilde Jumpin' Jubillee Orchestra, her Swingin' Boyfriends, and has been heard on KMHD 89.1 "Home Grown Jazz".

Abbott has studied double bass with Roma Vayspapir, Don Hermanns, Dave Captein, Ken Baldwin, Curtis Daily, and Eugene Jablonsky.