Roger Lebow – 10 Hour Bach Marathon at Union Station

Cellist Roger Lebow’s concert life—whether in solo and chamber performances, or with LA Opera—embraces repertoire from the 16th century to pieces whose ink would still be wet, if composers still used pens. Thanks to his parents’ schlepping him to LA’s celebrated new music series Monday Evening Concerts as a teenager, he maintains an appetite for new music which has led him to commission, premiere, and otherwise champion numerous cello works, and to help form the venerable LA new music Collective XTET in 1986. A teenage love affair with the viola da gamba left him in permanent thrall to the viol and the Baroque cello.

In the realm of chamber music Lebow was the founding cellist of the Armadillo String Quartet and the Clarion Trio, and he spent several years in Seattle with the Philadelphia String Quartet. He has made chamber music recordings on the Delos, New World, Water Lily Acoustics, Spectral Harmonies and Albany labels, and has taught at Pomona College, Chapman University, Occidental College, UC Irvine and UC Bjoerling.