Listen / Clara Warford and Samantha Schrecker have been playing the harp since around the time they started the first grade. Now the teens study at The Harp School, Inc. and perform in the traveling ensemble, Harpistry. Both have already won prestigious awards at national and international competitions, and they play with the Curb Youth […]

Listen / Richard Todd will soon start doing double duty as a guitar teacher. He’s a longtime member of the TSU Music faculty; starting this fall he’ll also be an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. He’s also the president of the Middle Tennessee Guitar Alliance, which is currently planning a virtuoso showcase, […]

Listen / Each member of the Nashville Saxophone Quartet is a teacher or soloist in his own right. Matt Davich, Don Aliquo, Denis Solee and Robert Shankle have played together in all kinds of situations: symphony orchestra woodwind sections, the pit orchestras for stage shows, you name it. They come together periodically as a quartet […]

Listen / Pianist Alex Bolton performs one of his own compositions and a few by Ukranian Romantic composer and pianist Sergei Bortkiewicz.

Listen / Members of Nashville’s ALIAS Chamber Ensemble play works by two Baroque era favorites.  The performers are Zeneba Bowers, violin; Matt Walker, cello; Kevin Bate, cello; Jessica Dunnavant, baroque flute and Francis Perry, theorbo. 

Listen / So often, our only exposure to the double bass comes at an orchestral performance, when the instrument is used to provide a steady foundation of low notes deep below the rest of the ensemble. In Studio C, Nashville Symphony bassist Kevin Jablonski showcased the virtuosic possibilities the huge string instrument possesses, accompanied by […]

Listen / The Nashville Concerto Orchestra is a new ensemble made up of musicians of various experience levels, all pitching in to give local players a chance to perform concertos. Founder Roger Weismeyer modeled it on a group in San Francisco, and the premise is simple: Whether they’re pros or amateurs, instrumentalists who play four […]

Listen / This summer, hundreds of young artists from around the state are in Murfreesboro at the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. Music Division Director Jerome Reed brought a handful of young musicians, each a rising junior or senior in high school, to give a taste of how talented the Governor’s School students are.

Listen / Each summer, talented high school students from throughout the state gather on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University for several weeks of intensive training in music, dance, theater and visual art. The faculty for the Governor’s School for the Arts is drawn from around the region. In addition to running rehearsals, the […]

Listen / As much as cellist Michael Samis enjoys the music written for his own instrument, he finds that transcriptions open up a larger musical world to him. Playing in Studio C, Samis and pianist Amy Dorfman performed a program entirely made up of duets derived from keyboard solos.