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Dr. S Daniel Swaim

Bass Teacher · Teacher Trainer SAA Member

Dr. Daniel Swaim, Professor Emeritus of Double Bass, Arizona State University, has taught at the collegiate level for four decades. He earned degrees from Cincinnati-College-Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, and the University of North Texas. He has played in the Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, and Wichita Symphony Orchestras, and he has taught strings in the schools of Atlanta, Georgia and Richardson, Texas. He has also performed with the Arizona Opera and the Brevard Music Center. In 1993, Dr. Swaim became an SAA Bass Teacher Trainer, is now Chair of the SAA ad hoc Bass Committee. He has been a presenter at major conferences in Brazil, Chicago, Kansas City, New Orleans, Matsumoto, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Rochester, San Francisco, and Savannah.