Jonathan Bagg joined CityMusic as principal violist in 2015. He is Professor and Department Chair at Duke University and is violist with Duke’s Ciompi String Quartet, with whom he has appeared in hundreds of concerts around the world. Bagg is founding Director of Electric Earth Concerts in New Hampshire. As EEC’s artistic director, and as Monadnock Music’s director (2006-2011) he enjoys creating original collaborative works with composers, authors, poets, and choreographers.

Recently Bagg has performed at the Portland Chamber Music Festival and the Sebago-Long Lake festival in Maine, and he has appeared at the Great Lakes Festival, the Eastern, Highlands-Cashiers, Mohawk Trail and Castle Hill festivals. He has performed with the Boston Symphony and as assistant principal in the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston.

Bagg’s 2013 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 music by Robert Ward, Arthur Levering, Malcolm Peyton, and Donald Wheelock are on Bridge, Albany, Centaur and Gasparo Records.