CONSERVATORY of MUSIC

Ioan Tetel

PRIVATE LESSONS | DOUBLE BASS

Congratulations to Mr. Tetel on his retirement! After many years of teaching, he is no longer accepting students.

About

Ioan Tetel joined Alberta College as a double bass instructor and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra as assistant principal bass in 1978.

Prior to moving to Canada he was a professor of double bass for 17 years at the Bucharest Conservatory of Music. Succeeding the renowned Joseph Prunner, Mr. Tetel was recognized as the most popular teacher of double bass in Romania, with many of his students going on to become successful soloists, orchestra members, chamber musicians and teachers.

As an orchestra musician Mr. Tetel has been principal or assistant principal bassist for several Romanian orchestras and the George Enuscu Philharmonic Orchestra. While with George Enescu Philharmonic, he performed under the baton of such great conductors as Zubin Mehta, Antal Dorati, Charles Dutoit and John Barbiroli and he participated in many European tours. Mr. Tetel and his wife, Eleonora (a geographer for Alberta Environment) have two sons: Mihai, a cellist with a brilliant solo career, presently a cello professor at Hartford University, CT, and Director of ARIA International Summer Academy for Advanced Music Studies, and Teo, a violinist who is on the faculty of Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Both of them performed as soloists with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

Lessons

Mr. Tetel is now retired.

For double bass lessons, request lessons with Sean Croal.

Mr. Tetel is an absolutely amazing teacher! The amount of improvement I saw in myself after taking lessons with was tremendous. He focuses on building the fundamental because I was lacking consistency and had intonation problems, and tackled my problems one by one. After lessons, I always felt excited and happy. Sometimes I was enjoying myself so much that I hardly felt time has passed. (Compared to when I took piano lessons a few years back, I always leave class crying and feeling disappointed) I learnt so much from him in the past few years and becoming his student was one of the best decision I've ever made.
Yoyo Liu, Double Bass Student
Mr. Tetel is a world-class bass instructor with a strong legacy of bass instruction in Edmonton. Over many decades, he has produced numerous successful bassists in the Edmonton area. His teaching methods and recourses are organized and efficient and have proven to make students grow into technically and musically proficient bassists in short order.
Rubim de Toledo