By, Dan Perttu
In this episode, I talk with Jeffrey Biegel, an extraordinary pianist who champions the work of living composers. He has performed as a soloist with hundreds of orchestras and has performed 25 commissioned projects by living composers. In this interview, we talk about what inspires him in his work, his commissioning projects, and how commissioning projects with composers, pianists, and orchestras have developed and will continue to evolve.
Photo by Jerry LoFaro
By, Dan Perttu
Please join me as I talk with Stilian Kirov, Music Director of the Illinois Philharmonic, Bakersfield Symphony, and Interim Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the Southwest Florida Symphony, about engaging communities and audiences with new music in orchestras of varying sizes.
By, Dan Perttu
In this episode, I talk with conductor Lee Mills, the Music Director of the Greenville Symphony (SC) and Executive Director of the Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic, about how he values authenticity in orchestral music. This value of authenticity drives his selection of both new and older orchestral music for programming. We also talk about how Lee wishes to connect people emotionally in orchestral performances and how he does that through his selection of repertoire.
Photo by Cicero Rodrigues