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Paul Unger

Assistant Principal Bass

Paul Unger

Paul Unger is currently the Assistant Principal Bass of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Double Bass at Texas Christian University.

An accomplished bassist and composer, Mr. Unger’s versatile abilities have allowed him to appear as a featured soloist with the Fort Worth/ Dallas Ballet, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Mimir and Mount Vernon Chamber Music Festivals. As an accomplished orchestral musician, he has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic and New World Symphony. His diverse abilities have also allowed him to perform and record with such diverse artists as Bob Newhart, Bernadette Peters, Andrea Bocelli, Kevin Eubanks, The Who, Elle King and Weird Al Yankovic, as well as, the touring Broadway productions of Les Miserables, Beautiful and Jeckyll and Hyde.

Paul is an integral member of the critically acclaimed jazz group, “Flipside”. A group referred to in Cadence magazine as “contemporary jazz at its best”, “exhilarating and challenging music making that is rarely dull. A band not to be missed”. David Lewis at Cadence said, “not only is Unger a first rate rhythm player, there is no question of his ability to extend his technique well beyond mainstream expectations.” And the Louisville Observer said of Mr. Unger, “the somewhat unexpected gem in Flipside’s “Artificial Joy” is bassist Paul Unger. Like the better known Edgar Meyer, Unger has a strong background in classical music… his smooth bowing style gives an elegiac feel to his own compositions…”

In 2016 Mr. Unger was voted “Best Bassist” and “Best Jazz Group” by Fort Worth Weekly Magazine.

Paul is a native of Silverton, Oregon and graduated from Indiana University. In addition to his musical work, he wrote and directed the multiple award winning film, “The Last Supper” and the docu-series “Symphonic Shorts” which appeared in over a dozen festivals worldwide. He has also composed music for the feature film “Seventy-Eight”.