Jonathan E Bagg
| Title: | Associate Professor of the Practice (viola), Director of Chamber Music, and Member of Ciompi Quartet |
| Office Location: | 083 Mary Duke Biddle |
| Office Phone: | +1 919 660 3331, +1 919 660 3300 |
| Email Address: | jbagg@acpub.duke.edu |
- Office Hours:
- Afternoons by appointment.
Education
- MM; Academic Honors, Distinction in Performance, New England Conservatory of Music, 1984
- BA; Cum Laude in Music, Yale University, 1982
Research Interests
Jonathan Bagg's career with the Ciompi Quartet includes hundreds of
performances across the U.S. and abroad, in Europe, China, Israel, and
South America, as well as over a dozen recordings. Solo appearances have brought him to venues such as the
Phillips Gallery in Washington DC, Boston’s Jordan Hall, and
Manchester, New Hamphsire’s Currier Gallery. Concertos include the
Pioneer Valley Symphony in Massachusetts, the Handel and Haydn Society
of Boston, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and the Monadnock Music
Festival Orchestra. Festival appearances have been Monadnock Music,
Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Muisc Festival, Eastern Music Festival, and
the Castle Hill Festival.
Bagg has recorded the solo music for viola and piano by Robert Fuchs
(1847-1927), and also contemporary solo works by Malcolm Peyton and
Donald Wheelock. His most recent disc is of music for viola and piano
by Robert and Clara Schumann with pianist Jane Hawkins, on the Centaur
label. He appears on an upcoming Bridge Records CD playing a work
written for him by American composer Arthur Levering. He directs the
chamber music program at Duke University, where he served also for
seven years as Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Typical Courses Taught:
- Music 106, Chamber music
- Music 179, Adv st mus performance
- Music 81, Strings
- Music 91, Strings
Recent Professional Work:
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- Ciompi Quartet. String Quartets of Paul Schoenfield. Winter, 2008 . [abs]
- Ciompi Quartet. String Quartets of Henri Vieuxtemps. 2007 . [author's comments]
- The Ciompi Quartet. Ciompi Quartet Live at St. Stephens. 2001 . (Haydn, Prokofiev, Ravel quartets (promotional))
- The Ciompi Quartet. Studies in Relief. Pro Organo (CD 7143), 2001 . (Works for Organ and String Quartet, with Marilyn Keiser, Organ)
- The Ciompi Quartet. Mark Kuss. Gasparo (GSCD 337), 2000 . ("American Tryptich" for String Quartet)
Commissions:
- Ciompi Quartet: "Mountain Music" by marc faris, Page Auditorium, Duke Universtiy, November 18, 2006
With Branford Marsalis, premiere of quintet for saxophone and quartet
Solo Performances:
- Solo Performances, January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2007
August 16 Monadnock Music (NH), “Music from the American Academy in Rome"
August 4 Monadnock Music Orchestra, Mozart Sinfonie Concertante, Peterborough, NH
March 5 Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC
March 1 East Carolina University, Greenville, NC - Soloist with Duke Symphnoy Orchestra, Duke University, Baldwin Auditorium, December 08, 2006
Performance of Mozart Sinfonie Concertante with Eric Pritchard, violin soloist - Guest Recital, UNC Greensboro School of Music, November 06, 2006
With Donald Berman, Piano, Premiere of Jaffe Sonata - "Mallarme" Ensemble, Duke University, Nelson Music Room, November 04, 2006
With Pianist Donald Berman - Bluthner Series (house concert), Winston-Salem, NC, November 03, 2006
With Donald Berman, Piano, Premiere of Jaffe Sonata - "Encounters" series, Department of Music, Duke University, October 21, 2006
Peformance of John Bower "Echo Over the Voice" for Solo Viola and Ensemble - Recital/Lecture with Viginia Eskin, Piano, Monadnock Music Festival, Peterborough, NH, August 10, 2006
Peformance of solo works by Robert and Clara Schumann - Recital with Donald Berman, Northampton, MA Community Music School, March 17, 2006
- Solo Recital with Donald Berman, piano, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester NH, February 19, 2006
- Solo Recital, Nelson Music Room, Duke University, January 15, 2006
Master Classes:
- Master Classes, Peabody Conservatory Preparatory Division, Baltimore, MD, February, 2007