See Hear with Matt Peiken

Min Xiao-Fen is a classically trained virtuoso of the Chinese stringed instrument called the pipa. But she didn’t find her musical soul until moving first to San Francisco and then New York, where she fell under the tutelage of the famed experimental c...

So many accomplished artists across all disciplines have moved to this region from all over the US, especially during and since the pandemic. One of those is jazz bassoonist Michael Rabinowitz. Even before formally moving into a new house in Marshall, ...

Andrew W. Clark was a published poet before he became a published novelist, but in his creative practice, the writing is often born from the same place. Matt Peiken first interviewed Andrew about seven years ago about his poetry. Now they're talking on...

To hear him tell it, Christian Howes ( https://christianhowes.com ) once had the world by the strings. He excelled at the violin from the time he was 5 and in high school, he attracted scholarship offers from several prestigious conservatories. But Chr...

If you’re a devotee of Appalachian folk, you’ll feel right at home in the seats of a performance by the acclaimed Danish folk trio Stundom. The violin and cittern are central to the music, but so are contemporary flavors brought by pianist Julian Svejg...

Like a rabbit out of a hat, Mike Super pulled himself into the national limelight a dozen years ago as a finalist on season 9 of America’s Got Talent. Today, he’s a star magician performing two shows ( https://www.worthamarts.org/events/mike-super-magi...

Asheville singer-songwriter Jane Kramer talks with See Hear's Matt Peiken about her personal new album, Moon and Mother, and how it chronicles a profound chapter of her life — becoming a mother while losing her own mother to cancer. Jane talks about na...

Jakob Heinemann is a double-bassist and Keefe Jackson a reed player who found each other in a fertile Chicago jazz scene and bonded over an appreciation of each other’s compositions and love of improvisation. Heinemann spoke with See Hear’s Matt Peiken...

Erin Brethauer and Tim Hussin are a filmmaking/photography couple who met in Asheville, worked together in California making intimate documentaries and have returned to Asheville to raise a child and put their professional focus into their production c...

At the height of this country’s fight for civil rights, some of America’s Black jazz artists were composing would-be soundtracks to the movement. Many of the charts and recordings they created for the Blue Note label were lost or forgotten through the ...

From New York jazz clubs to Minnesota art houses, Ted Nash and Jeremy Walker have been friends and collaborators for more than two decades. Nash is a two-time Grammy Award winning saxophonist and a longtime member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestr...

If you were to scan the rosters of symphony and chamber orchestras throughout the country and internationally, not to mention the credits of film scores, commercials and anywhere else calling for real classical musicians, you’d likely find one or more ...

Chris Aluka Berry's intimate photos from within Black Appalachian communities are collected in his first book, Affrilachia: Testimonies. More than 100 photos are interspersed with poetry, along with Aluka’s personal observations through the six years h...