Listen / Jerome Reed returned to Studio C with a program of well-loved and well-played favorites, including a Brahms intermezzo that acts as a sort of musical mirror for him. On the instruction of a professor during his undergraduate years, Reed picked the intermezzo as something he would return to again and again through his […]
Live in Studio C: Eastwood Ensemble
Listen / The Eastwood Ensemble’s Spring concert is all about music written by — or for — Americans. The program includes the world premiere of a movement by Nashville composer Kevin Jablonski and a performance dedicated to the memory of East Nashvillian Paul Gordon. Ahead of the concert at Eastwood Christian Church at 3pm on Sunday, […]
Live in Studio C: Portara Ensemble
Listen / Portara Ensemble’s name hints at the group’s mission: the choir seeks to be a gateway to collaboration within Nashville’s music community. Last year, Portara partnered with ALIAS Chamber Ensemble and the Nashville Ballet to commission and premiere new music by Paul Moravec. The result, ‘Amorisms,’ was released as an album earlier this year.
Live in Studio C: Vox Grata Women’s Choir
Listen / Vox Grata Women’s Choir has an upcoming spring concert featuring music from Central and Eastern Europe. Among other pieces, they’ll be singing a set of songs by Rachmaninoff as translated into English by a pair of Nashvillians. Mark Herman and Ronnie Apter came to explain how they craft singable lyrics that sound good while also […]
Live in Studio C: Silviu Ciulei, guitar
Listen / An alumnus of Middle Tennessee State University’s guitar program, Silviu Ciulei now teaches the instrument at Furman University in South Carolina. He returned to Studio C with a program of French music, Django Reinhardt and his own flamenco compositions.
Live in Studio C: Christine Kim and Arunesh Nadgir
Listen / Cellist Christine Kim and pianist Arunesh Nadgir are back in the midstate after a pair of performances on the road. Both are music professors at Middle Tennessee State University. In Studio C, they gave us a taste of what audiences in North Carolina and Indiana enjoyed, playing a sonata by Debussy in its […]
Live in Studio C: Felix Wang and Heather Conner
Listen / This week, we welcomed back a longtime friend and met a new one as cellist Felix Wang returned to Live in Studio C with one of the newest faculty members at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, pianist Heather Conner. The pair will perform a concert on March 26 in Blair’s Turner Recital Hall.
Live in Studio C: John Johns
Listen / After more than four decades on the faculty at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, guitarist John Johns is retiring. He’ll give his last recital as a teaching musician at 8pm this Thursday in Ingram Hall. But first, he returned to Studio C (by the way, he was our very first guest artist back […]
Live in Studio C: Carolyn Huebl and Mark Wait
Listen / Johannes Brahms published three sonatas for the pairing of piano and violin, and next Tuesday Carolyn Huebl and Mark Wait will play them all in an 8pm concert at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. They’ve brought one for a live performance in Studio C, marked by conversational passages between the two instruments.
Live in Studio C: Blair String Quartet
Listen / The Blair String Quartet has long deserved a reputation as one of Nashville’s finest performing ensembles, with roots stretching back more than four decades.
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