Acclaimed cellist Pamela Highbaugh Aloni joins pianist Sarah Hagen for an evening of works for cello and piano. Their recital will feature Mendelssohn’s glorious Sonata No.2 for cello and piano and Stravinsky’s charming Suite Italienne. The concert will be approximately 75 minutes with no intermission.
Tickets are $30 and can be purchased online at the link below or reserved by emailing info@sarahhagen.com or calling (416) 454-2363.
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*Please note there will also be a second seating for this concert on Tuesday morning, December 2nd at 10:30 am.
Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, Cellist
Praised for her "meltingly beautiful solos" and "depth and insight," cellist Pamela Highbaugh Aloni has been an Associate Professor at UVic since 1991 where she teaches cello, chamber music, and string pedagogy. She is a founding member of the award-winning Lafayette String Quartet which performed together for 37 years before taking their final bow in August of 2023.
In those years, the Lafayette quartet enjoyed a rich musical life together with the same four members. Highlights of their years include a celebration in 2000 performing all sixteen of Beethoven’s string quartets, a 30th anniversary Shostakovich Cycle, a Second Viennese School project, commission of five new quartets by women composers, and the initiation of the Lafayette Health Awareness Forum. Their CBC recording “Death and the Maiden” was awarded “Outstanding Classical Recording of the Year” by the Western Canada Music Awards.
A native of California, Pamela served as principal cellist with the Detroit’s Renaissance City Chamber Players. She was a Ford Motor Company Artist in Residence at the Center for Creative Studies Institute of Music and Dance and a faculty member at Oakland University. She earned her BMus and MMus degrees from California State University, Northridge and Indiana University. Her principal teachers include Peter Rejto, Janos Starker and Paul Katz.
An enthusiastic and devoted teacher, Ms. Highbaugh Aloni served for ten years on the faculty at the Courtenay Youth Music School and Festival and has been the coach for the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra cello section since 2004. She performs both as a soloist and recitalist and has been a guest artist with the Vetta Ensemble of Vancouver, Victoria Chamber Orchestra, Victoria Summer Festival, Festival of the Sound, Sooke Philharmonic, Eine Kleine Summer Music, Chamber Music San Juan, and served as principal cellist with the Galiano Ensemble from 2000-2018. Pamela plays on a George Craske cello made in England, 1850.