Jonathan Bagg is Professor and Music Department Chair at Duke
University. He is violist with Duke’s Ciompi String Quartet, with whom
he has performed hundreds of concerts in the U.S. and around the world.
He is founding Artistic Director of Electric Earth Concerts in New
Hampshire, and he directed the Monadnock Music festival from 2006-2011.
As an artistic director he has organized many creative collaborations
with composers, authors, poets, and choreographers, resulting in a
unique multi-media works.
Jonathan has performed at the Portland Chamber Music Festival, the
Sebago-Long Lake festival, the Great Lakes Festival, the Eastern Music
Festival, the Highlands-Cashiers festival, the Mohawk Trail and Castle
Hill festivals.
From 2015 he was principal violist and appeared as soloist with the
CityMusic Cleveland chamber orchestra. As an orchestral player he
performed with the Boston Symphony and held principal jobs at the Handel
and Haydn Society, the New Haven Symphony, and the New Hampshire Symphony.
Jonathan’s most recent solo CD on the Albany label, titled “Elation,”
brings together several works he commissioned, including works by Duke
colleagues Stephen Jaffe and Scott Lindroth. Other solo discs contain
music for viola and piano by Robert and Clara Schumann, and by the
Viennese composer Robert Fuchs. Contemporary solo works by Robert Ward,
Arthur Levering, Malcolm Peyton, and Donald Wheelock are on Bridge,
Albany, Centaur and Gasparo Records. He has also made dozens of CDs with
the Ciompi Quartet. He has performed at the SLLMF since 2019.
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