Studio A

Superstar pianist Lang Lang first heard "Rhapsody in Blue" on the radio as a child and refined his performances with help from jazz greats Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea. He'll perform it with Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra this weekend. He visited IPR to share his experience with teaching young musicians, from his classroom initiatives around the world to Interlochen students to his own son. What does a young classical musician need to succeed in the 21st century?

Conductor Cristian Măcelaru leads WYSO in a weekend of performances at Interlochen. Classical IPR broadcasts both concerts live on Saturday and Sunday evening.

Interlochen's Advanced High School String Quartets recorded Beethoven's String Quartet op. 18, no. 6 in IPR's Studio A. Movement 1: Allegro con brio Halyn Kim, violin, Porter Ranch, CA Alex Gemeinhardt, violin, New York, NY Kasinda Willingham, viola, Hamilton, OH Natalie Helm, cello (faculty coach) Movement 2: Adagio ma non troppo Hannah Schweiger, violin, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Jiles Defosse, violin, Annapolis, MD Ashton Carter, viola, Memphis, TN Noah Scharback, cello, Eden Prairie, MN Lenny Schranze, faculty coach Movement 3: Scherzo: Allegro - Trio Karis Shin, violin, Incheon, South Korea Kieran Niska, violin, Mason, OH Lake Weeks, viola, Powell, OH Albert Lee, cello, Harrington Park, NJ Tim Shiu, faculty coach Movement 4: La Malinconia: Adagio – Allegretto quasi Allegro - adagio - Allegretto - Un poco adagio - Prestissimo Julia Lee, violin, Ellicott City, MD Evie Chow, violin, Edina, MN Preston Elliot, viola, Kansas City, MO Jisoo Park, cello, Troy, MI Mark Rudoff, faculty coach

They're stagehands, instrument services assistants, library interns and stage managers at Interlochen Arts Camp - they're also brass players who created a new ensemble this summer. Musicians: Timothy Hosler, trumpet, classical music stagehand Lillian Patriquin, trumpet, classical music stagehand Madeline DeJoy, horn, ensemble library intern Elijah Dugal, trombone, instrument services assistant Aidan Carney, tuba, classical music stage manager Tyler Castellanos, trumpet, classical music stage manager (Böhme only) Music in this episode: Victor Ewald, Brass Quintet no. 1, I. Moderato Oskar Böhme, “Trumpet” Sextet, I. Adagio ma non tanto, Allegro molto

Louis Langrée conducts WYSO at Interlochen in its fifth concert of the 2025 season. Hear Classical IPR's live broadcast this Sunday, July 27, at 7:30 PM ET.

Chart a course to The Little Fleet this Wednesday for a Classical Happy Hour with Matthew Cochran, Laura Osgood Brown and Keith Brown. They'll present a program sea shanties and storytelling at The Little Fleet with music from the high seas to the Great Lakes. Music performed in Studio A "The Maid on the Shore" "The Flying Dutchman" "The Mermaid"

The quartet members visited Studio A to give a preview of a few more upcoming recitals in northern Michigan this summer, including one on Interlochen's campus and another at the Music House Museum. The members of the Kodak Quartet are Edgar Donati (violin), Martin Noh (violin), Daniel Spink (viola) and Blake Kitayama (cello). Music performed in Studio A Johannes Brahms, String Quartet no. 2 in A minor: I. Allegro non troppo Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in D major, op. 20 no. 4: IV. Presto scherzando

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra returns to Interlochen for two concerts led by music director Jader Bignamini.

Matthias Pintscher leads Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra in their third concert of the 2025 season. Classical IPR presents the live broadcast this Sunday, July 13 at 7:30 PM ET.

Scaglione leads the World Youth Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, July 6 in a program featuring a Dvorak symphony and new music by Jeff Scott.

Conductor Delyana Lazarova conducts Interlochen's rising talent in a demanding work by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Meet IPR's latest Sound Garden Project ensemble in residence and hear about how they're bringing the sounds of the saxophone quartet to northern Michigan this week. Members Roberto Campa, Laura Ramsay, Kyle Kato and Samuel Dishon visited IPR's Studio A to talk about how they're taking their Fischoff Award-winning sounds from the concert hall to the public, with performances at gas stations, campgrounds, coffee shops and other unexpected places across the region. Music performed in IPR's Studio A Karalyn Schubring, Ambivert: I. Extrovert Edvard Grieg, Holberg Suite, II. Sarabande

Viridian Strings welcomes a pianist into the mix for the first time for two recitals this weekend in Traverse City and Frankfort. Founding members Joe Skerik (viola) and Kyle Stachnik (cello) will perform with pianist Umi Garrett and violinist Nathan Meltzer in a program of piano quartets by Mozart, Turina and Dvorak. Viridian Strings will be presenting three more sets this summer, including violin and viola duo this month, solo cello in July and August and string quartet in August. Music performed in Studio A W.A. Mozart, Piano Quartet in G minor, III. Rondo Joaquin Turina, Piano Quartet in A minor, III. Andante - Allegretto

The recipients of this year's Dr. and Mrs. R. Schilling Award from the Grand Traverse Musicale are vocalist Cecilia Balog, a St. Francis High School senior, and violist Konrad Kuzma, a TC Central High School senior. They recently visited IPR's Studio A to perform and to talk about what it means to be the top scholarship recipients. Music performed in Studio A Cecilia Balog, voice, with pianist Jamie Hardesty W. A. Mozart, "In uomini, in soldati" from "Cosi fan tutte" Konrad Kuzma, viola Max Reger, Suite for solo viola, II. Vivace

Pianist Kara Huber and violinist Ara Sarkissian are taking their duo recital on a tour around northern Michigan this month. The K/Ara Duo visited IPR's Studio A to perform the Nocturne by Lili Boulanger and discuss the mutual admiration that brought them together as musical collaborators.

Ty Chiko is a baritone, a baker, a visual artist and a social justice advocate. Originally from the Bahamas, he joined Interlochen's faculty last fall as the director of vocal music. Chiko visited IPR's Studio A to perform music of Gustav Mahler and Betty Jackson King.

Interlochen Arts Academy piano students Olivia Sexton, Kieran Alston and Oliver Wang took the stage in IPR's Studio A, previewing their upcoming tour performance. Music performed in Studio A Missy Mazzoli: "A Map of Laughter" performed by Olivia Sexton from Frankfort, IL Sam Post: "O'Carolan's Dream" performed by Kieran Alston from Makawao, HI George Gershwin: Prelude no. 1 performed by Oliver Wang from Meadville, PA

This weekend, Interlochen collaborative pianist Hyemin Kim presents the first recital in a yearlong series at the Music House Museum. It's called "Women's Life and Love," and Kim will perform with soprano Yeseul Choi. Kim and Choi visited IPR's Studio A to give a musical preview of this weekend's recital. They performed two songs from Robert Schumann's cycle "Women's Life and Love," or "Frauenliebe und Leben." The series is called "Classical Voyage: Intimate Musical Storytelling at the Museum" and will include at least three more recitals in 2024.

Interlochen Arts Academy students have a unique challenge ahead of them. During the 2025-26 Academy year, they will learn one of the most challenging pieces in the orchestral repertoire: the Symphony no. 4 by Charles Ives. Scholar Jan Swafford visited Interlochen to give the Academy students and faculty an introduction to composer Charles Ives. Regarded as one of the most important of American composers, Ives has been called everything from "iconoclast" to "maverick" with his unique approach to music composition. Ives' music often features complex orchestrations, references to American transcendentalism and a strong sense of the composer's spirituality. The music of Charles Ives is also characterized by his frequent use of musical borrowing, with melodies of hymns, patriotic songs, band music and popular tunes woven into each piece. Pieces by Charles Ives excerpted in this presentation Holiday Quickstep Psalm 67 Symphony no. 1 Symphony no. 1 Decoration Day Symphony no. 4 Ragtime Dance Fourth of July

Trio Voci visited Studio A to perform music of Beethoven and Shostakovich. The three members of the trio are currently students at Interlochen Arts Academy. Music performed in Studio A Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio "Ghost": I. Allegro vivace e con brio Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Trio no. 2: IV. Allegretto - Adagio Trio Voci members Jad Ibrahim, violin, Latakia, Syria Caleb Ryu, cello, Manlius, N.Y. Hailey Culp, piano, Cumming, Ga.

Viridian Strings members Kyle Stachnik, Karisa Chiu and Joseph Skerik discuss their upcoming concert, “Interwoven Voices,” featuring Beethoven and new chamber music highlights in Traverse City.

Detroit Opera Resident Artists Brianna J. Robinson, Kendra Faith Beasley, Cole Bellamy and Cameron J. Rolling visited IPR's Studio A with Nathalie Doucet, Resident Artist Program Director. Music performed in Studio A Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Se vuol ballare" from The Marriage of Figaro (Cole Bellamy, baritone) Giacomo Puccini, "Donde lieta" from La bohème (Brianna J. Robinson) Giuseppe Verdi, “Il lacerato spirito” from Simon Boccanegra (Cameron J. Rolling, baritone) Francesco Cilèa, “Acerba voluttà … O vagabonda stella” from Adriana Lecouvreur (Kendra Faith Beasley, mezzo-soprano) Resident Artist Program Director Nathalie Doucet was the collaborative pianist.

Violinists Ilmar Gavilán and Melissa White, violist Jaime Amador and cellist Felix Umansky visited IPR's Studio A to perform and talk about their current projects. Music performed in Studio A Fanny Mendelssohn, String Quartet in E-flat major: III. Romanze Guido López-Gavilán, Cuarteto en Guaguancó The Harlem Quartet is in northern Michigan to work with Interlochen Arts Academy students and perform at City Opera House in Traverse City.

Meet the MJ Brass quintet - all five musicians are Interlochen Arts Academy students, and they called themselves "MJ" because all five of their first names start with one of those two letters. Musicians Mauricio García de Jesús, trumpet, San Felipe Otlaltepec, Mexico Madi Turrentine, trumpet, Groveton, Texas Jaksen Vargas, horn, Cedar Park, Texas Juan Beltran, trombone, Spring, Texas June Eickholt, tuba, Colleyville, Texas The MJ Quintet performed the first movement of the Brass Quintet no. 3 in D-flat major by Victor Ewald.

Trio Azura performs in IPR's Studio A while on their Gold Medal tour after winning this year's Fischoff National Chamber Competition. Their members are Duncan McDougall, violin, Yejin Hong, cello, and Yanfeng (Tony) Bai, piano.

New Interlochen faculty member Christopher Goodpasture on his love for the L.A. Lakers, why young musicians should play more chamber music and the "extraterrestrial" nature of Scriabin.

Interlochen faculty pianist Hyemin Kim is presenting a recital of music by composers from the 18th century to the present day. The composers represented on her program include Franz Joseph Haydn, Robert Schumann, Claude Debussy, R. Nathaniel Dett and John Corigliano. She recently visited IPR's Studio A to give a preview of some of the music she'll be presenting Friday night in Manistee.

Double bassist Paul Erhard and pianist Alejandro Cremaschi are presenting a unique recital of tango-inspired music in northern Michigan this week. All of the music on their recital was composed by Luis Jorge González (1936-2016), an Argentine-born American composer who was a friend and colleague of Erhard's and Cremaschi's for many years. All three served on the music faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder. Erhard and Cremaschi visited IPR's Studio A to give a preview of some of the music they'll be presenting on this week's recitals and to discuss González's musical and personal legacy. Music performed in Studio A Luis Jorge González, Wanderer's Songs Luis Jorge González, Chacona Tangante (theme and variations 1-3)

Founders Joe Skerik and Kyle Stachnik have assembled a quintet version of Viridian Strings for a late summer concert tour of northern Michigan. Music performed in Studio A Ralph Vaughan Williams, Phantasy Quintet (mvts. 3 & 4) Musicians heard in Studio A Cherry Yeung, violin Matthew Hakkarainen, violin Brian Isaacs, viola Joe Skerik, viola Kyle Stachnik, cello

The Argentine chamber tango ensemble "QuinTango" performed in Classical IPR's Studio A ahead of their 6-concert tour around northern Michigan. They performed an arrangement by bassist Ali Cook of Leonard Cohen's "Dance me to the end of love" as well as "Luna roja," an original composition by bandoneonist Emmanuel Trifolio. QuinTango's members are: Regino Madrid (violin), Joan Singer (founder/violin), Ali Cook (bass), Agustin Muriago (piano) and Emmanuel Trifilio (bandoneon). They are joined this weekend by QuinTango's dance master, Victor Rua Espada of Buenos Aires.

The 2024 Advanced String Quartets from Interlochen Arts Camp visited Studio A to record Felix Mendelssohn's String Quartet no. 4 in E minor. Movement 1 Tarquin Bennion, violin, Sidney, MT Alex Workman, violin, Greenville, NC Steven Zhang, viola, Mesa, AZ Charlie Pabst, cello, Tempe, AZ Movement 2 Guillem Baviera Fuste, violin, Torrent, Spain Hannah Schewiger, violin, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Dana Wang, viola, New York, NY Aiden Ko, cello, Seongnam-si, South Korea Movement 3 Momica Lu, violin, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Anthony Kim, violin, San Diego, CA Natalie Coleman, viola, Liberty, MO Juliet Diaz Onderwyzer, cello, West Nyack, NY Movement 4 Jonathan Milgram, violin, San José, Costa Rica Kaylee Nah, violin, Portland, OR Cristian Yohannes, viola, Frisco, TX Evelyn Yang, cello, London, England

JoAnn Falletta leads Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra in their final concert of the 2024 season and the 97th annual performance of “Les Préludes.” Classical IPR presents the live broadcast this Sunday, August 4 at 7:30 PM ET.

Three high school student students from Interlochen Arts Camp recently visited Studio A to perform music by Giuseppe Verdi, Claude Debussy and Stefano Donaudy. "Il lacerato spirito" from "Simon Boccanegra" by Giuseppi Verdi David Gigauri, bass-baritone; Tbilisi, Georgia Hao Zhang, piano "Nuit d'etoiles" by Claude Debussy Valentina Gomez, soprano; Miami, FL Xiaoping Wang, piano "Vaghissima sembianza" by Stefano Donaudy Modestina Call, soprano; Oxford, MI Amelia Arguelles, piano

Two high school student brass quintets from Interlochen Arts Camp recently visited Studio A to perform music by Alexander Arutiunian, Eric Ewazen and Samuel Scheidt. The Fire Five Eric Ewazen, Frost Fire (first movement) Ben Mitchell, trumpet, Charlotte, NC Gabe Luza, trumpet, Charlotte, NC Connor Powers, horn, Houson, TX Will Cranston, trombone, Houston, TX Barrett Hoover, tuba, Wann, OK The Maple Brass Quintet Samuel Scheidt, Canzona Bergamasca Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian Scenes (third movement) Taylor Hopps, trumpet, Olympia, WA Jakob Burnham, trumpet, Brighton, MI Ben Shugart, horn, Grand Prairie, Texas Demitri Resto, tenor trombone, Trumbull, CT Caden Wolfe, bass trombone, Tampa, FL

"Condense Eternity" by composer Alex Berko is inspired by iconic Michigan and New York bridges. The piece gets its Interlochen premiere this weekend with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Rebecca Tong.

Conductor Rebecca Tong conducts Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra this weekend in a program highlighting the "Enigma Variations" by Edward Elgar and new music by Alex Berko.

Two high school student wind quintets from Interlochen Arts Camp visited IPR's Studio A to perform music by Carl Nielsen and Maurice Ravel. Apollo V Mariana Perez-Alvarez, flute, Katy, Texas Kate Roberts, oboe, Wylie, Texas Tom Wang, clarinet, Sammamish, Wash. Paul Wittmer, bassoon, Buffalo, N.Y. Ben Shugart, horn, Grand Prairie, Texas Coach: Sharon Sparrow Carl Nielsen, Quintet: I. Allegro ben moderato Couperin Quintet Marko Sretenovic, flute, Belgrade, Serbia Leo Egen, oboe, Kalamazoo, Mich. Chris Cui, clarinet, Apex, N.C. Damian Carrasco, bassoon, Cedar Park, Texas Connor Powers, horn, Houston, Texas Coach: Robert Walker Maurice Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin: I. Prelude (arr. Mason Jones)

Jader Bignamini has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) since their 2020-2021 season. He and DSO musicians are at Interlochen this weekend for two concerts, including a side-by-side concert with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra. Saturday's program opens with "Don Juan" by Richard Strauss and includes Ludwig van Beeethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. Sunday's program features Dvorak's "New World" Symphony and the overture to "Nabucco" by Giuseppe Verdi.

The members of the Beaver Combo are high school jazz students studying at Interlochen Arts Camp this summer. Sam Crespino, Josiah Dean-Ware, Connor Dively, Emi Greenfield, Aiden Ledbetter and Armin Schulz-Baldes visited IPR's Studio A to perform the Errol Garner jazz standard "Misty."

This Sunday, Cristian Macelaru leads the World Youth Symphony Orchestra (WYSO) in their second concert of its 2024 season at Interlochen Center for the Arts. Joining Macelaru is violin sensation Ray Chen performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

Composer Bobby Ge talks with Interlochen Public Radio about "Sighting the Swallow," a piece that gets its Interlochen premiere with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra this weekend. Co-commissioned by Interlochen Center for the Arts and the New York Youth Symphony, "Sighting the Swallow" had its world premiere at Carnegie Hall in March 2023.

Anna Snecinski and Santiago Ramirez are high school pianists at Interlochen Arts Camp who recently visited IPR's Studio A. Anna Snecinski is 16 years old. She is from Tampa, FL. Anna performed the Intermezzo in A major (op. 118, no. 2) by Johannes Brahms. Santiago Ramirez is 16 years old. He is from Medellín, Colombia. Santiago performed an original composition entitled "Pasillo no. 1." A pasillo is a traditional Colombian dance with a distinctive rhythm in 3/4 time.

This Sunday, Cristian Macelaru leads the World Youth Symphony Orchestra (WYSO) in their second concert of its 2024 season at Interlochen Center for the Arts. Joining Macelaru is violin sensation Ray Chen performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

Kotoha Inoue and Olivia Sexton have each just finished their first week at this summer's Interlochen Arts Camp (2024). They visited IPR's Studio A to perform and talk about their experiences at camp so far. Kotoha Inoue is 15 years old. She performed the "June: Barcarolle" movement from Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons." Olivia Sexton is 17 years old. She performed the Prelude and Allemande movements from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita no. 1 in B-flat major. Michael Culler engineered this recording session with support from Carolyn Dzul.

This Sunday, Lazarova launches the World Youth Symphony Orchestra (WYSO) into their first concert at Interlochen Center for the Arts with a program that includes Johannes Brahms's "Academic Festival Overture," Benjamin Britten's "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" and "Abstractions" by Anna Clyne.

Edgar Donati, Martin Noh, Daniel Spink and Blake Kitayama of the Kodak Quartet are in residence as part of IPR's Sound Garden Project.

Darren Liou, Matthew Rasmussen, Alex Lee, Thacher Schreiber and Kristine Llanderal of Fivemind Reeds are in residence in Glen Arbor, part of IPR's Sound Garden Project.

Sarah Huebsch Schilling and Kelsey Schilling are spouses, early musicians and faculty members at the annual Renaissance Music Retreat from Interlochen's College of Creative Arts. The Schillings visited Studio A with pairs of recorders and crumhorns to demonstrate some of the music they're teaching and performing this week.

They're back! Cuna Kim, Kyle Stachnik, Oliver Leitner and Joseph Skerik of Viridian Strings brought music of Dvorak to IPR's Studio A ahead of a pair of performances in northern Michigan this weekend.

Two TCAPS seniors visited IPR's Studio A ahead of the 2024 Traverse City Music Boosters Benefit Concert. Oboist Amelia Lawens is a senior at Traverse City West. She performed Robert Schumann's Romance, Op. 94 no 1 Bassoonist Jack Dwyer is a senior at Traverse City Central. He performed Eugene Bordeau's "Premier Solo." Their collaborative pianist was David Husser. They and other TCAPS students will be featured in a benefit concert on Thursday, May 23. All donations support the Traverse City Music Boosters' student scholarships and music classroom mini-grants.

Violinist Tina Chang Qu, cellist Patrick Owen and pianist TJ Lymenstull take the stage of the Alluvion in Traverse City Friday night. They'll perform the Piano Trio no. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn and Café Music by Paul Schoenfield (also spelled Schoenfeld). The trio gave a preview of Friday's recital, performing the second movement of Café Music. Michael Culler engineered the music recording.