Will Yager is a versatile bassist/improviser committed to experimental music, improvisation, and collaborating with living composers in the creation of new solo and chamber repertoire for the double bass. He has worked directly with composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, Miya Masaoka, Jean-François Charles, Mary Jane Leach, Michael Pisaro, and Amy Williams, among others. He is a founding member of the soprano/double bass duo LIGAMENT and improvising trio Wombat. Recent appearances include performances at the Oh My Ears Festival, Big Ears Festival, Feed Me Weird Things, New Music on the Point, Cortona Sessions for New Music, and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, where he was a Robert Black Double Bass Fellow.

As a member of LIGAMENT, Yager has been an Ensemble Fellow at New Music on the Point (Vermont) and the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy). LIGAMENT were also recently semifinalists in the SAVVY Chamber Music Competition at the University of South Carolina. Recent highlights include a performance of Beat Furrer’s Lotófagos at the University of Iowa Center for New Music. Upcoming projects include several newly commissioned works and Forge, an interdisciplinary collaboration with artists Vero Rose Smith and Alyssa Gersony.

Wombat, along with Justin Comer and Carlos Cotallo Solares, is an improvising trio dedicated to experimental and intermedia performance. Wombat has performed at the Oh My Ears Festival (Phoeniz, AZ), MOXsonic Experimental Electronic Music festival, and the University of Iowa Center for New Music. Wombat has two self-produced recordings available on Bandcamp.