The Encuentro Internacional de Contrabajo, a double bass festival, will take place in october at Bogota (Columbia).  “We are extremly honoured and happy since Maestro Gary Karr will not only be among our invited Doublebassists but we will be dedicating the encouter to him!” says Moisès Bertran, Director Conservatorio de Música/Universidad Nacional de Colombia. The Filarmonic Orchestra of Bogotá  will host the National Doublebass Competition during that time, too. Beside Gary Karr, the Universtity of Bogota has invited the double bassists Ivan Sztankov, Bernard Cazauran, Ilko Rusev, Hernando Segura and Jonathan Camps.