Listen / Former Blair School of Music professor Agnes Wan is back in Nashville this week, and she stopped by our studios with a performance that highlighted her precise and sensitive playing. She brought two selections from Franz Schubert, each composed to sound as if they were improvised on the spot.

Listen / Flutist Jessica Dunnavant has a busy concert schedule right now, performing with several ensembles over the coming weeks. But she carved out a little time from her ensemble work to give us an example of the lively solo music that helped make the flute a popular instrument to play in the Baroque era, […]

Listen / Last year, flutist Deanna Little brought a group of musicians from Middle Tennessee State University to Studio C to perform selections from The Dolly Project, chamber music by area composers inspired by Dolly Parton, specifically her song “Coat of Many Colors.” It tells a story from Parton’s youth and a children’s book she […]

Listen / The Gateway Chamber Orchestra draws on Austin Peay State University’s music faculty as well as symphony and session players from around the region. This season, along with playing works of the great masters, the ensemble is celebrating the diversity of music found in our area. For the opening concert, they’ve invited Stephen Seifert […]

Listen / Now that school’s back in session, the faculty recital series is back underway at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. Cellist Felix Wang and pianist Heather Conner will be performing Friday evening, and they’ve brought us a preview of that program.

Listen / Kevin Bate is the Nashville Symphony’s Assistant Principal Cellist, so we usually hear him in concert with dozens of other musicians. In this program we get to hear his playing front and center in several pieces by composers who were cellists themselves.

Listen / Armenian composer Alexander Arutiunian is little known in the Western world, aside from one trumpet concerto that is part of the standard repertoire for that instrument. But as Fred Sienkiewicz found, Arutiunian occupied a role in the Soviet bloc not unlike that of Leonard Bernstein in America: a leading classical composer and conductor who also […]

Listen / I Madrigali is a group of singers from community and church choirs around Nashville who gather each summer when their usual choirs take a season off. Quite appropriately, their repertoire draws heavily from the rich Renaissance body of madrigals celebrating the joys of midsummer festivities. Directed by John Perry, the ensemble will perform the […]

Listen / Reagan Casteel’s high school education took a sharp turn in 2015; after three years at Nashville’s Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet, she spent a summer at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and ended up returning there to finish out her senior year learning to compose music. Casteel is now headed to Eastman School of Music. […]

Listen / Guitarists Robert Thompson and Joey Butler have been performing around Nashville as Duo Sudeste for several years and recently released their first album. The pair took a Portuguese name for their group, a fitting name given that their repertoire leans heavily on the Latin guitar tradition. They brought a program of tunes from […]