Friday, August 29, 7:30PM
Cellist Jolyon Pegis returns to the Opera House for a special solo recital.
Pegis may be familiar to Opera House audiences as one of the Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival musicians for several years, as well as for a previous concert with violinist Maria Schleuning. In this concert, he will be joined by pianist Robert Frankenberry.
Pegis hails from Rochester, NY. He is the winner of the Artists International Awards in New York, and subsequently made his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall. He since has appeared as a recitalist and chamber musician across the country.
A champion of new music, he has worked with composers such as Gunther Schuller, Lukas Foss, Eric Heckard, and Don Freund. He was a member of the Arcadia Trio in residence at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival and has also been featured at the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival and the Anchorage Festival of the Arts. A frequent soloist with orchestras, he has appeared multiple times with the San Antonio, Virginia, Dallas, West Virginia and Chautauqua Symphonies.
He is currently an Associate Principal Cellist with the Dallas Symphony as well as Principal Cello of the Chautauqua Symphony and a member of the Grammy-nominated contemporary music ensemble Voices of Change.
Robert Frankenberry enjoys a multi-faceted relationship with music as a singer, pianist, conductor, orchestrator, director, and even occasionally as a composer.
On stage, he has performed a wide range of roles including Mozart (Amadeus), John Adams (1776), Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos), the tile roles in Don Carlo, The Tales of Hoffmann, Faust, and Willy Wonka, and Orson Welles in Daron Hagen’s film opera Orson Rehearsed. At the piano, he regularly performs works by living composers with such groups as Pittsburgh’s IonSound and AnimeBOP, New York City’s The Phoenix Players and PRISM Players, and multi-city entelechron and Chrysalis Duo.
He is currently Interim Concert and Communications Coordinator for the Department of Music at the University of Pittsburgh.
