Upright BassViktor Krauss
Viktor Krauss is a Nashville-based bassist and composer with a career spanning three decades and more than 800 album credits as instrumentalist, composer, songwriter and producer. Since 1992 he has supported artists including Bill Frisell, Lyle Lovett, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, James Taylor, Jerry Douglas, Sir Tom Jones, Dolly Parton and Elvis Costello.
As a solo artist, Krauss describes his music as soundtracks without a movie, blending jazz, Americana and classic rock. His debut, Far From Enough, featuring Bill Frisell, Jerry Douglas, Steve Jordan and Alison Krauss, reached #6 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart. Follow-ups include II (EMI, 2007) and Vignette, along with harpist Maeve Gilchrist.
A 2006 Sundance Institute Film Composers Lab fellow, he has scored film work tied to directors Ken Burns and Robert Altman, with solo recordings featured on NPR. He has also served as a clinician and artist-in-residence at Berklee, Indiana University and Belmont University.