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Last June, for The Glassblock’s Close-Up series, violist Ji Young Nam transferred three of Johann Sebastian Bach’s suites for unaccompanied cello to the viola. Taking inspiration from baroque dance forms, Bach’s cello suites are some of the most celebrated solo cello music. For his final edition of Close-Up, Ji Young Nam, who also regularly performs with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus, the Canton Symphony Orchestra, and the Erie Philharmonic, transposes three additional movements from cello suites to the viola via Simon Rowland-Jones arrangements.

“I originally picked six movements of Bach inspired by six qualities that I personally experienced in my life,” says Nam. “Those six qualities are love, joy, peace, quiet mind, energy, and inspiration. Personally, Bach’s solo cello music expresses the existence of both a sacred place where we think everything desirable can be found and the earthy side where we find suffering, sadness, and agony.”