Dominic Seldis

Dominic Seldis, born in 1971 in Bury St Edmunds, is a British double bassist and broadcaster. He trained at Chetham’s School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and served as principal double bass of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales before moving to Amsterdam in 2008 as principal (1st solo) double bass of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Also active as a soloist and chamber musician and a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, he is a familiar face on television and radio as a presenter and judge, and one of the orchestra’s most engaging communicators.