Pablo Mahave-Veglia, cello
Pablo Mahave-Veglia resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he is Professor of Cello at Grand Valley State University. Mr. Mahave-Veglia is a cellist and teacher of broad interests whose repertoire ranges from the early baroque, performed on period instruments, to his ongoing interest in researching, performing and recording the work of contemporary Latin-American composers. He counts among his musical influences his mother, the noted piano pedagogue Mercedes Veglia, as well as such artists/teachers as Arnaldo Fuentes, Steven Doane, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Janos Starker and Uri Vardi.
Highlights of the current season include several performances of the complete Sonatas for cello and continuo by Vivaldi, featuring a collaboration with harpsichordist Gregory Crowell. Performances will take place at GVSU and Calvin College in Michigan, as well as Cookeville and Knoxville in Tennessee. Last year Dr. Mahave-Veglia toured widely his Not So Alone program, a recital that focuses on the idea of creating polyphony (visual or musical) in works for cello with electronic and/or video counterpoint. With the collaboration of electronics assistant Nate Bliton, this program of works by Andrés Alcalde, Bill Ryan, Steve Reich, Edgardo Cantón and Robert Muczynski was presented at St. Cloud State University, the Z Studio in Minneapolis and Concordia College (Minnesota), Dog Story Theater in Grand Rapids, the University of Iowa, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania and James Madison University in Virginia.
A concerto tour of Chile last year included performances of the Haydn D Major Concerto with the Orquesta Clásica de Santiago, the Dvorák with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Antofagasta and the Boccherini with the Chamber Orchestra of Coyhaique. Previous projects include the performance of the Complete Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for cello and pianoforte utilizing period instruments and historical performance practices. Each of the three concerts was performed at Grand Valley State University, and repeated in regional concert series, and featured a different keyboard artist. Concerts took place at Eastern Michigan University, the Ann Arbor Early Music Academy, the Feeding the Soul of the City Series in Muskegon, MI, the Colby Barn Early Music Series in Illinois, and Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
Previous endeavors include touring with a solo program of the Bach Cello Suites using original instruments, including a 5-string violoncello piccolo. Recent concerts, classes and lectures include performances at Ohio University, Converse College in South Carolina, Arizona Sate University, the SUNY at Fredonia, Queens College in Ontario, Canada, and the Universities of Iowa, Delaware, Kentucky and Hong Kong Baptist University, among many others. His program of galant style Sonatas by London-based composers was performed at venues like the Fringe Concerts of the Boston Early Music Festival, the Fontana Chamber Arts Summer Festival in Kalamazoo, and in Chicago's Live from WFMT radio broadcast series.
An alumnus of the Interlochen Arts Academy, Dr. Mahave-Veglia holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University and the Eastman School of Music. Additionally, he has attended such music festivals as Banff (Canada), NOI (Maryland), Pacific Music Festival (Japan), the Jerusalem International Festival (Israel) and the Schleswig-Holstein and Heidelberg Music Festivals (Germany). Mr. Mahave-Veglia is a former faculty member at the University of Evansville (Indiana), Ripon College (Wisconsin), St. Cloud State University (Minnesota), the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Madison Summer Cello Institute, the International Music Academy in Pilsen (Czech Republic), and the Eastern and Brevard Music Festivals (North Carolina). In addition, he has appeared as soloist or chamber musician in his native Chile, Colombia, Perú, Costa Rica, Europe, Hong Kong and Malaysia. In the United States he has performed at such venues as the Mammoth Lakes Chamber Music Festival (California), the Saugatuck Music Festival (Michigan), the Dame Myra Hess Recital Series in Chicago, the Elvehem Museum in Madison, Wisconsin, and in New York City at the Renee Weiler Hall, Bang on a Can Marathon and le poisson rouge.
Professor Mahave-Veglia performs on a five-string baroque cello made by Chilean Luthier Marcelo Cigna in 1986. He also performs on a late eighteenth century British cello restored to period setup by Ian Watchorn in 2005. His modern instrument is a 1790 William Forster on loan to him by an anonymous private collector.
