Dennis Trembly, adjunct professor, strings, is a native of Long Beach, California, and learned to play the bass with the help of David Borkenhagen, John Palacios, Peter Mercurio, and Nat Gangursky. Just before his senior year in high school, Mr. Trembly studied with Stuart Sankey at the Aspen School of Music on a full scholarship, and the following three years continued this collaboration at the Juilliard School on a Naumberg scholarship. While in New York he freelanced with several orchestras, including the Hudson Valley Philharmonic; the Village Light Opera; American Opera Society; and the American Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. Mr. Trembly joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1970 and became one of two principal bassists in the 1973-74 season. Active as a soloist, Mr. Trembly was a semifinalist in the 1973 G. B. Dealey Competition in Dallas, and won second prize at the 1978 International Double Bass Competition on the Isle of Man, where he performed the Concerto in E Major, by Karl Dittersdorf, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He has performed and taught at universities in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe, and has been featured in recital at International Society of Bassists conventions in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana. The Philharmonic has presented him as a soloist in Green Umbrella, Campus Concerts and Symphonies for Youth venues. Other orchestras which have featured him in concerto appearances include the Merced, La Mirada, Santa Monica and Long Beach symphonies, and the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra (at the original Getty Museum). In addition to appearing with distinguished Philharmonic colleagues at its Chamber Music Series, Mr. Trembly has performed chamber music with such musicians as Menachem Pressler, John Perry, Antoinette Perry, Kevin Fitz-Gerarald, Alice Schoenfeld, Eleonore Schoenfeld, Donald McInnes, Alan de Veritch, Cynthia Phelps, and Milton Thomas. Mr. Trembly has been a faculty member at the USC Thornton School since 1981.