Paige Riggs
Paige Riggs, principal cellist, returns to the Bach Festival this summer from her home in Pittsburgh, Pa. She holds a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her major teachers include Timothy Eddy, Janos Starker, and Paul Katz.
Her college teaching appointments include time on the music faculties of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. She has performed and taught for many years at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, N.C., and has been a guest artist at numerous festival and concert series including the Music on the Edge Series in Pittsburgh, the Foothills Music Festival, the Garth Newel Music Center, the June in Buffalo Festival, the Staunton Music Festival, and the Embassy Concert Series in Washington, D.C.
While a student she received fellowships from the Spoleto Festival, the Bach Aria Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Center, which awarded her the C.D. Jackson Memorial Prize in 1997. Ms. Riggs has lived in the Pittsburgh area since 2002 and currently acts as the principal cellist of the Westmoreland and McKeesport Symphony Orchestras.
This season she will join the Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra and act as co-principal of the Pittsburgh Ballet Orchestra.