Vernon Regehr

Vernon Regehr (Cello) is a cellist and conductor on faculty at MUN. He is an active recital, chamber and orchestral musician, conductor and teacher who has made festival appearances with the First Avenue Chamber Players of New York City, Trinidad Arts Festival, International Festival of Ensembles in St. Petersburg, Russia, University of Victoria, Artspring, SoundaXis New Music Festival, Hilton Beach, Toronto Summer Music Festival, Music in the Barns and the Chamber Music Societies of Quebec and Kitchener-Waterloo. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with the Shanghai, Afiara, Fitzwilliam and Lafayette string quartets, Andrew Burashko, Mark Fewer, Suzie Leblanc, and Leon Fleisher. As a member of the faculty at the Tuckamore chamber music festival in St. John’s NL, he has performed premiere performances of commissioned works by Canadian composers Katarina Curcin and Jocelyn Morlock for national CBC radio broadcast. Full Spectrum, his first solo record, was released in 2012 on the Centrediscs label and features new Canadian works for solo cello, including the 2014 East Coast Music Award for Composition of the Year (Lamentations). John Terauds of Musical Toronto writes, “…Regehr executes [Versprechen] with elegant ease, as he does every other one of the very difficult pieces on this album.