Garth Stevenson

Raised on family excursions into the remote wilderness of British Columbia, double bassist Garth Stevenson approaches music as a conversation with nature. Often composing in the forest near his home in Western Massachusetts, he creates spatially immersive music through deep listening, inspired improvisation, and textural experimentation. His compositions are inspired by oceans, landscapes, and the life within them, blending artistry and environmental wonder. His commitment to conservation has led him to play alongside pods of breaching whales in Antarctica and Baja, Mexico, while his original scores have accompanied feature films by director John Curran, as well as the biopic Bob Marley: One Love. As he continues to refine what it means to collaborate with the natural world, his albums have become companions for those at life’s thresholds: birth and death, meditation and grief, heartbreak and renewal.