Dress Rehearsal

In the 16th episode of Dress Rehearsal my guest will be the amazing Icelandic cellist Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir who will tell us about her life as a travelling musician and recording artist, busy learning and premiering cutting-edge new music written for her. Will also hear of her love for her native Iceland and of her ongoing collaborations with Icelandic composers. Will have a chance to listen to...

In this episode we feature French Organist and Composer Charles Tournemire, who was well known for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian Chant. His compositions include eight symphonies (one of them choral), four operas, twelve chamber works and eighteen piano solos. He is mainly remembered for his organ music, the best known being a set of pieces called L'Orgue mys...

In the 14th episode of Dress Rehearsal, my guest will be Russian Pianist Tatiana Roitman Mann who is currently piano professor at Texas Tech University. During the hour we'll chat about her passion for the piano and its literature and how this passion led her to travel from her native Ukraine to Canada, then to England and then settling in the US. Tatiana is also very actively engaged in reforming...

This episode welcomes California-based Composer Anne Lebaron who will tell us about her passion for opera and theatre and how she fuses music, stories and words in unexpected ways. We'll listen to some recordings from her opera "LSD" (and if you are asking the question "do you need to have taken LSD in order to write an opera about it?" you'll find the answer in the podcast) as well as the opera "...

This episode features Maestro Craig Sheppard with whom we converse about piano playing and pianists, teaching piano in Seattle, piano competitions (and his recent appearance as jury member in the Arthur Rubinstein competition in Tel Aviv), Franz Liszt and his 400 students as well as will play a few tracks from his recordings from Bach's The Art of the Fugue, Liszt's Anne de Pelerinages, Brahms's K...

In this episode I'll be considering on the subject of SOUND ILLITERATES, taking inspiration from the latest book by Italian composer Carlo Boccadoro titled "Analfabeti Sonori" (literally translated as "Sound Illiterates'') who critically analyzes topics like the state of classical music in the age of the Internet and of streaming. During the hour we will sample some recordings of music by David La...

This episode features the very successful Russian-American Pianist YANA REZNIK. During the hour we discuss topics like freelance careers during a pandemic, music and emotions as well as we sample some tracks from her latest CD titled NOVELLAS. Don't miss it! Dress Rehearsal is a classical music show hosted by Italian pianist Lorenzo Marasso. The show airs every week on Seattle's KBFG 107.3 FM.

This episode of Dress Rehearsal welcomes British Pianist, Organist and Conductor WAYNE MARSHALL who will tell us about his life as a young musician in the UK, his love for Stevie Wonder's songs, his on-going career as well as his latest CD "Passion Symphony", of which we will sample a few tracks. Don't miss it! Dress Rehearsal is a classical music show hosted by Italian pianist Lorenzo Marasso. Th...

This episode features Seattle's King FM Radio Host Sean MacLean. Sean is a composer, a radio host and producer and a wine-tasting buddy. In this episode we lightheartedly touch on various topics, music, radio hosting, recordings, wine and, brace yourself, "loudness wars" both in music and in wine making. If you are curious about these topics do not miss this podcast. Dress Rehearsal is a classical...

This episode features an interview with NY-based pianist Eleonor Bindman who is a performer, a teacher and a recording artist. Her current work is dedicated to transcribing several of Johann Sebastian Bach's orchestral works for either piano solo and for piano duet. This show focuses on her recent recording of two transcriptions, the complete Brandenburg Concertos by Bach for piano duet and the Ce...

Dress Rehearsal is a classical music show hosted by Italian pianist Lorenzo Marasso. The show airs every week on Seattle's KBFG 107.3 FM. This episode features Estonian Composer Arvo Part. 

Dress Rehearsal is a classical music show hosted by Italian pianist Lorenzo Marasso. The show airs every week on Seattle's KBFG 107.3 FM. This episode features Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.