Backstage Pass
Backstage Pass, a live radio series on Classical 91.5/90.3, is committed to highlighting performing artists in Rochester.
Backstage Pass is an hour-long radio series that is committed to highlighting performing artists – giving Classical 91.5/90.3 listeners the opportunity to hear local and visiting musicians performing live. The series’ production team includes WXXI-FM Music Director and Backstage Pass host Julia Figueras, Senior Audio Technologist Dave Sluberski, Audio Engineer Andrew Croucher and Vice President of Radio Jeanne Fisher. The series is made possible in part by a grant from the Gouvernet Arts Fund at Rochester Area Community Foundation.
Backstage Pass Podcast available for most of the artists.
BACKSTAGE PASS BRINGS HOME A 2007 RADIO PROGRAMMING AND PROMOTIONS FINALIST AWARD FROM THE NEW YORK FESTIVALS
Tune in on this date at 1pm for Backstage Pass and Listen Live:
Previous Guests:
Monday, March 10 and Friday, March 14 – Pianist Harvest Zhang and The Compass Quartet local From the Top guests
Friday, February 1 – The Erie Saxophone Quartet
Friday, January 18, 2008 - Christopher O'Riley, host of NPR's From the Top, will talk about his upcoming show in Nazareth College's Callahan Theater
Friday, December 14, 2007-- Gregory Kunde and Linda Wojciechowski
November 16, 2007– William Preucil and Juliana Athayde
October 26, 2007 - Pianist Jon Kimura Parker
September 28, 2007 - The Canadian Brass
August 17, 2007 - The Corigliano String Quartet
July 6, 2007 - Pianist Jon Nakamatsu
June 29, 2007 - Eastman Harp Professor Kathleen Bride (watch the Harp 101 video)
May 25, 2007 - Members of the cast of Mercury Opera's upcoming production of Showboat
April 27, 2007 - Nicholas Goluses, founder of the guitar department at the Eastman School of Music
March 8, 2007 - Lutenist Deborah Fox and Friends
February 14, 2007 - The Ying Quartet.
January 9, 2007 - RPO Horn player Peter Kurau will be joined by soprano Pamela Kurau and RPO Pianist Joseph Werner to present the music of Franz and Richard Strauss.
December 1, 2006 - Cellist Steven Doane and pianist Barry Snyder
November 16, 2006 - RPO Marimba Ensemble
October 27, 2006 - The Geneseo Wind Quintet
September 29, 2006 - Kenneth Grant, Principal Clarinetist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and an associate professor of clarinet at the Eastman School of Music.
August 8, 2006 - RPO Brass perfoming music written for the Commission Project
July 14, 2006 - Richard Auldon Clark and members of the Mahattan Chamber Orchestra. Clark, a violist, is founder of the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, as well as Associate Professor of Music at Butler University, and conductor of the Butler Symphony Orchestra.
June 16, 2006 - Soloists for Glimmerglass Opera come in to discuss and sample the upcoming summer season.
May 19, 2006 - Violinist Tai Murray talks with Ms. Figueras about her experiences on the concert stage as an African-American musician and preview some of the music from her upcoming concert at the Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival on May 21.