Cellist Vernon Regehr has made numerous chamber music festival appearances including Prairie Virtuosi, International Festival of Ensembles in St. Petersburg, Russia, Trinidad Arts, University of Victoria, Under the Spire, ScotiaFest, Artspring, SoundaXis New Music, Hilton Beach, Toronto Summer Music, Music in the Barns and the Chamber Music Societies of Quebec and Kitchener-Waterloo. His first solo album, Full Spectrum, features previously unrecorded Canadian works for unaccompanied cello, including Lamentations (Clark Ross), which was awarded the East Coast Music Award for Composition of the Year. John Terauds (Wholenote) writes, “…Regehr executes [Versprechen] with elegant ease, as he does every other one of the very difficult pieces on this album.” Future releases include Andrew Staniland’s Calamus song cycle with soprano Jane Leibel, and Everything is Green, the inaugural recording by the Looking Glass Ensemble. He also collaborated with author and filmmaker Kenneth J. Harvey to reimagine Calamus as a collection of short films, which have been screened at festivals nationally and internationally. Regehr is on the teaching faculty at Memorial University’s School of Music and serves as the conductor and musical advisor to the Kittiwake Dance Theatre.
