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 […]

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 […]