JOSEP QUER AGUSTI was born in Vilafant (Girona, Spain). High Level Teacher of violin, slide trombone and double bass, he reaches the Top Diploma in double bass with maestro Ferran Sala in 1974. After working in popular and dancing music (the most important period was between 1969 and 1977, with the International Spanish "Orquesta Maravella"), and after playing in most European countries, he began to work only in the classical field. Member of the Euzkadi Symphony Orchestra between 1982 and 1986, he plays now in the Symphony Orchestra of Great Theatre of Liceu in Barcelona. He took part of "Septimino de Euzkadi", he has played as double bass soloist with several symphony orchestras and chamber orchestras in Perpignan (France) and with the Empordà Chamber Orchestra. He played also with "Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona" -now OBC- (always as guest double bassist), Montpellier Symphony Orchestra and Empordà-Languedoc-Roussillon Symphony Orchestra. He has received master class from Yoan Goilav (Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel) and from great American virtuoso players Barry Green and, specially, Gary Karr. He played in many Festivals, like International Music Festival of Peralada. In June 1997 he was invited by International Society of Bassists to play in the Convention held in Houston (Texas, USA); he was also invited by ISB in 1999 to play in Iowa. He works now with japanese organist Izumi Kando, with whom he is planning concerts all over the world. Josep Quer plays a double bass solo in the soundtrack of the film "Babaouo" (1997), based upon a story written by Salvador Dalí, directed by Manuel Cussó i Ferrer and with original music by Catalan jazzman and piano player Manuel Camp. Josep Quer worked all along these years as a teacher in a lot of Spanish conservatoriums (specially in Euzkadi), and now he teaches in the Conservatorium of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). This is his third CD as a soloist of double bass; he recorded before "Contrabaix nostre" (ALTERNATIVA, 1993) and "El bruixot del contrabaix" ("The double bass wizard" -dedicated to Catalan composer Josep Cervera i Bret-: ALTERNATIVA, 1996). Matías López López, Universitat de Lleida, 1998.