Previous Guests

Information about guests prior to 2010 is located at the bottom of the page.

Previous Guests

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 1:00pm

Julia Figueras welcomes Alice Kanack, cellist Andrew Barnhart, and participants from the Kanack School of Music’s summer chamber music program to Backstage Pass.

Friday, September 23, 2016 - 1:00pm

Deborah Fox and Pegasus Early Music join host Julia Figueras for a look at Barbara Strozzi’s Venice

Friday, July 29, 2016 - 1:00pm

Host Julia Figueras welcomes Richard Auldon Clark, artistic director, and members of the Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival to the Henry Epstein Studio

Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 1:00pm

Host Julia Figueras welcomes faculty members of the MostArts Festival at Alfred University to the WXXI studios

Friday, May 20, 2016 - 1:00pm

Classical 91.5 host Juila Figueras welcomes the Carillon Tuba Quartet from the Eastman School of Music to Backstage Pass

Friday, April 8, 2016 - 1:00pm

Julia Figueras welcomes local chamber ensemble Madrigalia, in celebration of their 40th Anniversary. 

Friday, March 4, 2016 - 1:00pm

Backstage Pass host Julia Figueras welcomes the Ying Quartet back to the Henry Epstein studios

Friday, February 19, 2016 - 1:00pm

Liz Rosa, Amelia del Caño, Clayton Kullander, and Randy Fultz of the Project Bassoon Quartet join host Julia Figueras for Backstage Pass

Friday, December 18, 2015 - 1:00pm

Julie Figuera welcomes the Rochester Oratorio Society, under the direction of the direction of Eric Townell, into Studio A for a live holiday concert in celebration of their 70th anniversary.

Friday, November 13, 2015 - 1:00pm

Backstage Pass shines the spotlight on three rising stars of the string program at the Eastman School of Music.

(Prior to 2010)

Friday, December 19, 2009 at 1 p.m. - Musica Spei

Friday, November 13, 2009 at 1 p.m. - Arabesque Winds

Friday, October 16, 2009 at 1 p.m. - Ossia

Friday, September 25, 2009 at 1 p.m. - Ying Quartet

Friday, May 1, 2009 at 1 p.m. – Pascal Rogé

Friday, April 17, 2009 at 1 p.m. – Quartsemble

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 1 p.m. – Robert DiLutis

Friday, February 13, 2009 at 1 p.m. – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

Friday, January 16, 2009 at 1 p.m. – Michael Burritt

Friday, December 19, 2008 at 1 p.m. - Musica Spei Holiday

Friday, November 21, 2008 at 1 p.m. -- Andrew von Oeyen

Friday, October 31, 2008 at 1 p.m. – Carol Rodland, Viola Chair at the Eastman School of Music

Friday, September 12, 2008 -- The Emerald Brass Quintet

Friday, August 22, 2008 – Amelia Piano Trio

Monday, July 14, 2008 – Two Men and a Baby Grand

Friday, June 6, 2008 - Bonita Boyd and Nicholas Goluses

Friday, May 31, 2008 – RPO's Melissa Matson and Erik Behr

Friday, April 25, 2008 – The Cello Divas

Monday, March 10 and Friday, March 14, 2008 – Pianist Harvest Zhang and The Compass Quartet local From the Top guests

Friday, February 1, 2008 – 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

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.

 

 

 
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