Jonathan Bagg has been part of Monadnock Music since 1983, when he was still a student at the New England Conservatory. Since 1986, he has been based at Duke University, where he is associate professor of the practice, and violist of the Ciompi String Quartet. His career with the Ciompi spans 22 years and includes hundreds of concerts across the US and abroad, in Europe, China, Israel, and South America, and over a dozen recordings. His work as a solo violist and chamber musician is distinguished by an interest in bringing new and unfamiliar works to life, including many pieces written for him. Solo recitals have brought him to venues such as the Phillips Gallery in Washington, DC, Boston’s Jordan Hall, and Manchester, NH’s Currier Gallery. Concerto appear¬ances 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. He has performed at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Eastern Music Festival, the Highlands Chamber Music Festival, and the Mohawk Trail and Castle Hill festivals. Bagg’s two solo CDs contain music for viola and piano by Robert and Clara Schumann and by Robert Fuchs (1847-1927), and are on the Centaur label. Contemporary solo works by Malcolm Peyton, Donald Wheelock and Arthur Levering are on the Bridge, Centaur and Gasparo labels. Bagg directs the chamber music program and teaches viola at Duke University, where he has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music. He graduated with honors from both Yale University (BA) and the New England Conservatory (MM), where he was a student of Walter Trampler.