{{MI| {{BLP sources|date=July 2011}} {{BLP primary sources|date=April 2025}} }} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Tim Cobb | image = TimothyBCobb.jpg | image_size = | landscape = | caption = Timothy Cobb, c. 2007 | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|3|28}} | birth_place = Albany, New York, U.S. | genre = | occupation = Musician, educator | instrument = Double bass | years_active = | label = Music & Arts | associated_acts = New York Philharmonic | website = }}
'''Timothy Cobb''' (born March 28, 1964, in Albany, New York) is the American current principal double bassist with the New York Philharmonic. He previously taught at the Peabody Institute of Music, and joined the Manhattan School of Music faculty in 1992. Cobb also currently teaches at SUNY Purchase, Lynn University, Rutgers University: Mason Gross School of the Arts, YOA Orchestra of the Americas, and Mannes School of Music Preparatory Division. He is the current chair of the double-bass department at the Juilliard School,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xx0xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9_0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3413,9828357&dq=tim-cobb+double+bass&hl=en|title=Concert Spotlights Young Performers|last=White|first=Gary|date=10 March 2003|work=Lakeland Ledger|pages=D1, D6|accessdate=8 April 2011}}</ref><ref name="Juilliard">{{cite web |url=http://juilliard.edu/degrees-programs/music/faculty/detail.php?FacultyId=406 |title=Faculty - Music - the Juilliard School |website=juilliard.edu |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929231631/http://juilliard.edu/degrees-programs/music/faculty/detail.php?FacultyId=406 |archive-date=29 September 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> where he has been on faculty since 2002.<ref name="msmnyc">{{cite web |url=http://www.msmnyc.edu/catalog/facbio.asp?fid=1008173076 |title=Manhattan School of Music: Faculty Bio |accessdate=2009-10-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730062906/http://www.msmnyc.edu/catalog/facbio.asp?fid=1008173076 |archivedate=2009-07-30 }}</ref>
==Performance career== A native of Albany, New York, Cobb began playing the bass at the age of seven, studying with his father David Cobb, and playing professionally by thirteen.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}} He attended the Curtis Institute of Music,<ref name="violin"/> where he was awarded the sole position available for bass in the year of his application to study with Roger Scott.
In 1982 and 1983, Cobb was a member of the New York String Orchestra Seminar under Alexander Schneider. While at Curtis, Cobb substituted regularly in the Philadelphia Orchestra. In the fall of his senior year he became a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Sir Georg Solti.<ref name="Juilliard" /> Appointed associate principal bass of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 1986, Cobb was granted a leave of absence by Solti to perform with the Metropolitan Opera, where he elected to stay. He was appointed principal bass several years later, after the departure of Laurence Glazener in 2004. As a member of the Met Orchestra, he has toured with the entire company and with the orchestra on the symphonic stage, led by Maestro James Levine. He has also enjoyed frequent collaborations with Maestro Levine in the chamber setting performing works such as Schubert's "Trout" Quintet and Stravinsky's ''L'Histoire du soldat''.<ref name="Juilliard" /> Maestro Levine has created a series at Weill Hall in New York to showcase the chamber abilities within his orchestra, a series where Cobb has made regular appearances. Cobb can be heard on all Met recordings since 1985.<ref name="Juilliard" />
Cobb has had invitations to perform in the World Orchestra for Peace created by Solti (subsequently led by Maestro Valery Gergiev), and in Japan as principal bass of the new "super orchestra," a gathering of musicians from major orchestras around the world. He was recently appointed principal bass of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra<ref name="nyphil"/> led by Maestro Gerard Schwarz (currently by Louis Langree). He is solo bassist for the Harmonie Ensemble, a New York–based woodwind ensemble,<ref name="Juilliard"/> as well as the solo bassist for the St. Barth's International Music Festival, St. Barthelemy, French West Indies, where he performs for a week in January each year.<ref name="msmnyc"/> He appeared in Ainay-le-Vieil, France, performing with the American Chamber Ensemble, and has also performed at Bargemusic, the Bridgehampton Festival, Caramoor, the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Lyric Chamber Music Society, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, Mostly Mozart, La Musica Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, the Great Performers at Lincoln Center series, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.<ref name="msmnyc"/> For three years, Cobb was the solo bassist for the Marlboro Music Festival and has toured with Musicians from Marlboro. Cobb has also collaborated with the Emerson Quartet, the Guarneri Quartet, the Moscow and St. Lawrence Quartets, and the Eroica Trio.<ref name="msmnyc"/>
Cobb has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Sony, and Music & Arts labels. He is active as a studio musician in New York, recording numerous soundtracks for movies, television, songs, and advertisements featured nationally and internationally.<ref name="msmnyc"/>
Each December, Cobb has been coaching the bass of the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall. In June 2011, he joined the Sarasota Music Festival to perform as well as to coach chamber music featuring the bass.<ref name="Juilliard" /> In early 2000s, Cobb was invited to give a master class and recital at the Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Northwestern University's School of Music. Cobb is part of the faculty of YOA Orchestra of the Americas.<ref name="msmnyc"/>
In May 2014, Cobb has been named as the new principal bass at New York Philharmonic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newyorkclassicalreview.com/2014/05/philharmonic-names-new-principal-clarinet-and-bass/|title=Philharmonic names new principal clarinet and bass|website=Newyorkclassicalreview.com|date=May 14, 2014}}</ref><ref name="violin">{{cite web|url=https://theviolinchannel.com/timothy-cobb-new-york-philharmonic-principal-bass/|title=Met Opera's Timothy Cobb Announced as New York Phil Principal Bassist|date=May 15, 2014|website=The Violin Channel}}</ref><ref name="nyphil">{{cite web|title=Timothy Cobb profile|url=https://www.nyphil.org/about-us/artists/timothy-cobb/|website=nyphil.org}}</ref>
==Personal life== Cobb lives in New York City with his wife, daughter and son.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
==Notable students== * John Grillo, member of the Pittsburgh Opera{{citation needed|date=April 2025}} * Scott Pingel, principal of the San Francisco Symphony
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