Applied Strings

Double Bass

Phone: 818-239-9243

gosika@alumni.curtis.edu

Studio: TBA

Geoffrey Osika started learning the double-bass at age 15 and soon was accepted as a pupil of the former Principal Bass of the New York Philharmonic, John Schaeffer. Three Years later he was awarded scholarships to attend the Julliard School as well as the Curtis Institute of Music. He chose to attend Curtis, from which he graduated in 1990, having studied under former Principal Bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Roger Scott.

In over a decade, Mr. Osika's orchestra career has taken him from the Hong Kong Philharmonic to the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia in Spain and the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. He has taught for four years at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts. While there, he introduced and developed a bass repertoire class where he taught all the bass students symphonic repertoire and audition preparation. Mr. Osika joined the CSULA String Program in Winter Quarter 2005.  He is also the Personnel Manager of Riverside Philharmonic.