Music, Theatre, Dance Faculty & Staff
Cellist Pablo Mahave-Veglia resides in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, where he is a Professor 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.
His current projects include touring with a solo program of the
Bach Cello Suites using original instruments, including a 5-string
violoncello piccolo. Recent and upcoming 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, Missoula-Montana and Fairbanks-Alaska, among many others.
Also, along with harpsichordist Gregory Crowell, he is researching,
performing and recording Sonatas by Lanzetti, Caporale, Cervetto,
Flesch and Galliard. This group of cellists/composers active in London
in the 1740's represents a distinctive school of cello playing largely
neglected in the concert and recorded repertoire. 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 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 Elvehjem 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 baroque cello made by Chilean Luthier Marcelo Cigna in
1986. His modern instrument is a 1790 William Forster on loan to him
by an anonymous private collector.