John Madere

John Madere is a Bassist/Composer residing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Madere holds the Bachelor or Music Degree from Louisiana State University (2005), the Master of Music Degree (Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music) and the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree with a Minor in Jazz Studies from LSU (2011).

Madere maintains a busy schedule of freelance bass playing. He is equally at home in both the jazz and classical idioms. Madere is currently principal bassist of the Baton Rouge Symphony, a position he has held since 2007. Along with regular performances with the Baton Rouge Symphony, he has also performed with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Rapides Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Acadiana Symphony, and was formerly the principal bassist of the Louisiana Sinfonietta. He has appeared as a soloist with the Louisiana Sinfonietta and the Baton Rouge Symphony and is currently commissioning a new solo work for the Southeastern Louisiana University Symphony Orchestra.

Madere teaches Talented Music in East Baton Rouge Parish School System and is an adjunct faculty member at Southeastern Louisiana University where he is a lecturer of double bass, instructor of music appreciation, and director of the University Lab Band at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. He has been an instructor in Jazz at LSU since 2024 where he conducts the LSU Lab Band and teaches jazz bass and improvisation lessons.

Madere released his album featuring all original compositions titled "Chemistry,” in 2011. The album features Madere along with LSU School of Music faculty Willis Delony and Brian Shaw as well as other LSU alumni. He released an ambient album titled “Jambient Vol. 1” in 2020 on the Earthship Records Label.

His current solo project, “Jambient,” features live looping and electronics using guitar, bass, drum machines and synthesizers. He has performed solo looping shows in Louisiana and Mississippi. Examples of these works can be found on his YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/john_madere.

Madere has studied with the Robert Nash, Yung-chiao Wei, Bill Grimes, Willis Delony, Albert Laszlo and Brian Shaw. He has performed with artists from both classical and jazz fields such as Audra McDonald, Yo-Yo Ma, Kristin Chenowith and Branford Marsalis.