BOSTON based double bassist & improvsier DIEGO MARTINEZ has utilized their extensive background as a classical performer to inform their improvisational language. they have spent the last five years in new england playing a wide variety of musical traditions in a great number of different kinds of ensembles & venues, spanning from smaller galleries & DIY venues such as the lilypad, the firehouse, red ink community library, & gallery 263, to museums & concert halls like jordan hall, boston symphony hall, mass moca & sanders theatre, among others. via their involvement in avant-garde music in both a through-composed & improvised setting, diego has a fundamental belief in the limitlessness of sonic possibilities on the double bass; thus encouraging them to seek the expansion of vocabulary on the instrument in a context of complete creative freedom that acknowledges & implements the tradition of innovation within radical musical movements throughout history.