Faculty Recital: Jonathan Bagg, viola, and Jane Hawkins, piano

Program includes music for viola and piano by Bach, Brahms, Jaffe, and Ligeti. Jonathan Bagg is Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke and a member of the Ciompi String Quartet. His career with the Ciompi includes hundreds of concerts across the US and around the world, as well as many recordings. Solo concerts have brought him to venues such as the Phillips Gallery in Washington, DC, Boston's Jordan Hall, and Manchester, New Hampshire's Currier Gallery. Bagg directs the chamber music program and teaches viola at Duke. Before moving to Duke, he performed with many of New England's most prominent musical organizations, appearing often with the Boston Symphony, the Handel and Haydn Society, and serving as principal viola for the New Hampshire Symphony. He graduated with honors from Yale Univ. and the New England Conservatory. Jane Hawkins has appeared with the Dorian Wind Quintet, the Ciompi String Quartet, the Chicago Symphony Chamber Players, and the American Chamber Players at the Library of Congress. As resident pianist and faculty member at Musicorda Music Festival, she has performed in concert with violinists James Buswell, Kenneth Goldsmith and Masuko Ushioda, and cellists Ronald Leonard, Norman Fisher and Phillip Mueller. Hawkins is Chair of the Department of Music and teaches piano at Duke. She graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London.