Two Etudes for Unaccompanied Double Bass  by Mehmet Can Ozer were commissioned by the 1st International Double Bass Competition in Turkey in 2015. They are advanced, impressive and engaging works for unaccompanied double bass which explore various facets of the solo instrument.

There are musical and technical challenges aplenty with the opportunity to demonstrate a sound technical control and the ability to explore the sonorous and cantabile qualities of the double bass.

Composed as test pieces, they utilise much of the range of the instrument and the 21st-century idiom demonstrates a composer with a complete understanding and empathy with the double bass.