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Pat Klobas

Double bass lecturer Pat Klobas joined the California State University East Bay Music Department faculty in the Fall of 2001. A highly skilled bassist in the jazz and classical fields, Pat is in demand as a performer, producer, clinician and teacher. Pat started his professional career in his teens as an electric bassist performing rock music around the Portland, Oregon area. At the ripe old age of fourteen, Pat's band was the opening act for the popular group Steppenwolf. As a high school senior, Pat received the Rice Music Award of Achievement from Beaverton High School. After high school Mr. Klobas relocated to San Francisco to start his classical music study of double bass. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in Performance at San Francisco State University, his Masters of Music degree in Performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

In the field of jazz and popular music Mr. Klobas is known in the San Francisco Bay Area as a first call session man. Pat has shared the stage with jazz artists Rosemary Clooney, Jessica Williams, Bruce Forman, Warren Vashe, Scott Hamilton, Greg Osby, Steve Turrie, Marty Morrell, Tommy Kesecker, San Francisco Chamber Jazz Quartet, Standard Deviation with Michael Udelson, and the American Jazz Philharmonic. His numerous Latin music shows include performances with Pete Escovedo, Andy Narell, Babatunda Lea and Indian Master Tabla percussionist Zakir Hussain. Mr. Klobas is first call for the San Francisco Symphony Pops Orchestra rhythm section as well as the California Symphony Pops and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony Pops with Erich Kunzel. Pat has his own band called the Klobas/Kesecker Ensemble performing original compositions and arrangements throughout the Bay Area.

As a classical bassist Mr. Klobas performs as acting assistant principal bassist with the Marin Symphony, and as section bassist in the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. He is a substitute for the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, California Symphony, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, The Skywalker Symphony, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Merola Opera, the Turtle Island String Quartet and Quartet San Francisco. Pat was principal bass with San Francisco Opera's touring company Western Opera Theater for 14 years, performing in over 40 states before its final curtain.

Performing with Broadway stars and musical theater productions are part of Pat's numerous musical experiences. Some of Pat's favorites shows were with Brian Stokes Mitchell, Elaine Stritch, Kristin Chenoweth, Michael Feinstein, Bob Hope, the Shorenstein Nederlander productions of the world premiere of White Christmas, The Producers with Martin Short and Jason Alexander, Les Misérables, 42nd Street, West Side Story, Ragtime, and many others.

As a recording artist Pat Klobas' recent list of credits include Star Wars Trilogy with John Williams conducting (Grammy® nominated), Linda Ronstadt Winter Light, No Gravity Klobas/Kesecker Ensemble, recordings for Turtle Island String Quartet, Randy Newman, Kitaro, and the San Francisco Chamber Jazz Quartet. Skywalker Symphony movie soundtracks include Spy Kids, Predator ll, Ricochet, Soap Dish, Why Charlie Brown, Why?, and many others.

Pat is president of the Northern California Bass Club, an educational forum for students and professional bassists. As president, Pat conducts master class seminars with world-renowned jazz bassists including John Patitucci, Christian McBride, Robert Hurst, Rufus Reid, Jimmy Haslip, Michael Manring, Buster Williams, Brian Bromberg and Richard Davis. Pat also teaches for the San Francisco Symphony Education Department, the Oakland East Bay Symphony MUSE program and the Golden Gate Bass Camp with Barry Green. Pat is the director of the Ray Brown Memorial Bass Course featuring John Clayton and Kristin Korb.
Mr. Klobas has studied with Stephen Tramontozzi, Charles Siani, Shinji Eshima, Joe Lescher, Herman Jobelman and Charles Chandler. Pat's jazz teachers/influences include Rufus Reid, Richard Davis, John Clayton, John Patitucci and Ray Brown.

(rev. 3/23/09)