Mr. Wilfredo Cariaso Pasamba Cello and string bass Lecturer Pittsburg State University Department of Music 1701 S. Broadway Pittsburg, KS 66762 620/235-4466 office phone 620/235-4468 fax wpasamba@pittstate.edu

Philippine-born American cellist Wilfredo Pasamba is a recipient of top prize awards in Jennings Butterfield Young Artists Competition, National Music Competition for Young Artists, Reno Chamber Orchestra Competition, Juilliard Cello Concerto Competition and a semi-finalist in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Hailed by the New York Times for his audacity and brilliance, he has performed extensively as a recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Malaysia.  He has been featured soloist on numerous occasions performing concertos from the standard cello repertoire with leading orchestras in the Philippines. 

Mr. Pasamba made his New York debut at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall and since then has appeared in concerts at the Merkin Hall, Metropolitan Museum, and Alice Tully Hall. He has attended music festivals in Tanglewood, Norfolk, Bowdoin, Ithaca Violoncello Institute and a conducting fellowship in South Carolina and has performed in cello master classes of Colin Carr, Bonnie Hampton, Aldo Parisot, Bion Tsang, Lawrence Lesser, Michael Grebanier, Carter Brey as well as orchestral conducting with Donald Portnoy and Paul Vermeil.  Mr. Pasamba has collaborated with conductors such as Basilio Manalo, Michael Palmer, Pierro Gamba, Ruggero Barbierri, and Vahe Kochayan among others. As an active chamber musician, he has performed with artist members of the Beaux Arts and Argenta Trios, and with the Alexander, Orion and Ying String Quartets. He was the cellist and founder of the Battig Piano Trio, which has embarked on its first European concert tour in 2001.   

Wilfredo Pasamba received degrees from Moscow State Conservatory, Ithaca College and Juilliard School. Trained by master cellists Natalia Shakhovskaya, Carter Enyeart, Einar Holm and Fred Sherry, he is currently an adjunct faculty member of Pittsburg State University.  He is also a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the UMKC Conservatory of Music where he teaches part time as an adjunct instructor as well. Mr. Pasamba performs on a cello made by Bronek Cison in Chicago in 2001 and a bow by Paul Martin Siefried.