Music Masters Gather On Campus

Nona Pyron, internationally known cellist and adjunct professor at Westmont, will gather professional musicians from across the country for a Chamber Music Retreat Thursday, Nov. 13, through Sunday, Nov. 16, in Westmont’s Kerrwood Hall. Westmont students and other skilled amateurs will also participate in the master class. The retreat is full, but auditors are welcome.

Pyron has led the chamber music master class in Santa Barbara since 1999. Participants this year come from as far away as Chicago.

An authority on the history of the instrument, Pyron taught cello and chamber music in London and at Willamette University in Salem, Ore. before coming to Santa Barbara, and is known for concert performances combining rare 18th century pieces played on period instruments with a more standard repertoire on a modern cello. She co-authored the book “Cello” with William Pleeth for the Yehundi Menuhin Series, and is founder and editor-in-chief of Grancino Editions, publisher of more than 100 unknown or forgotten compositions from the 18th century. They are taken from her collection of over 8,000 works uncovered during years of research in Europe.

For more information contact coordinator Zandra Hanson at (626) 585-1925 or zandrahanson@gmail.com.