Live from Hochstein

Host:

Interim Host:
Brenda Tremblay

 

Live at Hochstein

About: Live from Hochstein, the longest running live broadcast concert series in Western New York, broadcasts performances by the finest artists from the Rochester area’s musical community from the Hochstein Performance Hall (50 North Plymouth Ave. in Rochester).

The programs range from soloists and chamber ensembles to large orchestras and choirs. The broadcasts are presented as free "brown bag" concerts, where business people, teachers, families, musicians, and students can spend their lunch hour enjoying classical music performed by local artists.
 

Airs: Wed. 12:10-12:50 pm during the season. Seasons generally begin in March and October of each year and each run 8 weeks.

Streamed live: wxxi.org/listen

WXXI Website: wxxi.org/hochstein

Hochstein Website: hochstein.org

 

Highlights:

The concerts are free and open to the public, and are held in the Hochstein Performance Hall at 50 N. Plymouth Avenue. The events are broadcast live over WXXI Classical 91.5/90.3 FM radio. For more information, please call Hochstein at 585/454-4596.

2008-2009 Series
FALL 2008

Oct. 22 Hochstein Music Educators Wind Band
Al “Corky” Fabrizio, conductor
featuring The Canandaigua Academy Mixed Chorus
Amy Story, conductor

“B and C”: Music of Copland and Bernstein

Oct. 29 Daniela Mineva and Wenqing Zhang, piano

Music of Debussy, Piazzolla, Scriabin, Messiaen, and Sciarrino for 4-hands and solo piano

Nov. 5 The Kilbourn Saxophone Quartet
Chien-Kwan Lin, soprano saxophone
Andrew Stoker, alto saxophone
Jamal Rossi, tenor saxophone
David Yusko, baritone saxophone

Hoedown to Tango: music for four saxophones

Nov. 12 Antara Winds
Diane Smith, flute
Judith Ricker, oboe
Margaret Quackenbush, clarinet
John Hunt, bassoon
Mary Hunt, horn

Old and New: Music of W.A. Mozart and Chen Yi

Nov. 19 Corinne Stillwell, violin
Patrcia Sunwoo, violin
Carol Rodland, viola
Mimi Hwang, cello
Joseph Werner, piano

Mozart Quartet in D, K. 575
Schoenfeld Cafe' Music

Nov. 26 – No concert. Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec. 3 Eastman Horn Choir
Peter Kurau, director

Holiday music for horns

Dec. 10 A Cup of Good Cheer
featuring Madrigalia
Thomas Folan, director

Join us for our annual celebration of the season

This series is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency and the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

Hochstein Schedule

Hochstein School of Music

The Hochstein School of Music

Live from Hochstein is presented in one of the city’s most historic buildings, the Central Presbyterian Church on North Plymouth Avenue, which is the site of a former Underground Railroad station. Built in 1858, it was the site of the funerals of civil rights crusader Frederick Douglas in 1895 and women’s right’s activist Susan B. Anthony in 1906.

Although Central Presbyterian disbanded in 1974, the building was preserved as a historic site and became the home of the music school for community music school established in 1920 by Emily Sibley Watson and George Eastman.