Studio A

Earl Lee conducts programmatic works by Stravinsky, Respighi and Rushen. Listen to Classical IPR's live WYSO concert broadcast at 7 p.m this Sunday, July 12.

Classical IPR welcomes award-winning Sound Garden Project artists Katarina String Quartet to Studio A.

Cristian Măcelaru conducts the opening World Youth Symphony Orchestra concert this year. Hear Classical IPR's live broadcast at 7 p.m this Sunday, July 5.

Interdisciplinary artists Daniel Mangiaracino and Cardin Chung present original compositions with a spectacle of lights in The Candle Factory.

The musicians of Viridian Strings return to Studio A with music of Jean Cras and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The trio includes founders Joe Skerik, who plays the viola, and Kyle Stachnik, who plays the cello. They’re joined by violinist Nathan Meltzer. They're giving three free recitals this week in Elk Rapids, Suttons Bay and Frankfort, plus one next week at Interlochen. Music performed in Studio A...

Classical IPR welcomes award-winning Sound Garden Project artists Cerus Quartet to Studio A.

Every time the ensemble known as Viridian Strings performs in northern Michigan, they have a slightly different configuration. Violinist Nathan Meltzer, double bassist Nina Bernat and pianist Umi Garrett are joining Viridian Strings founders Joe Skerik (viola) and Kyle Stachnik (cello) for a series of recitals in northern Michigan this week. The musicians visited IPR's Studio A to perform movement...

A quartet of Interlochen senior horn majors performed competition repertoire in IPR's Studio A ahead of their performance in South Bend later this month.

Guitarist Lenny Ranallo and pianist Yolanda Tapia bridge classical and folk traditions in their upcoming recital of Latin American sonatas.

Diana Wyenn is the creative director for Interlochen's Imagine US: Celebrating America at 250 tour. Wyenn recently spoke with Classical IPR about her vision for the upcoming Imagine US: Celebrating America at 250 tour and how the program is bringing together all of Interlochen's arts areas to celebrate the past, present and future of the United States. The tour program includes the premiere of a n...

Clarinetist Katia Waxman, oboist Daniel Gurevich and pianist Ya-Ju Chuang played the final movement of the Trio for Oboe, Clarinet and Piano by Bill Douglas and spoke with IPR's Amanda Sewell. These three Interlochen faculty musicians will perform with guest flutist Alisa Smith in two recitals of woodwind chamber music with piano. The program features works by Eugène Bozza, Joseph Horovitz, Claude...

This year's Detroit Opera Resident Artists Brianna J. Robinson, Mia Mandineau, Cole Bellamy and Travis Leon Williams and Head of Music Nathalie Doucet visited IPR's Studio A during their annual residency with Interlochen Arts Academy students. Each musician answered the same four questions, and then they performed. Jacques Offenbach, "Barcarolle" from "Les Contes d'Hoffman" (Mia Mandineau and Bria...

The ensemble celebrates its tenth annual "Winter Songs and Carols" concert this month. Members Michael Beery, Sam Clark, Laura Hood, Lauren Murphy and Jeanmarie Riccobono visited IPR's Studio A to give a preview of the music on this weekend's concerts. They also spoke about the departure of Manitou Winds founder and artistic director Jason McKinney earlier this year and how they as an ensemble rem...

Pianists, friends and Interlochen Arts Academy students Helen Nguyen and Kieran Alston brought music of Felix Mendelssohn, John Corigliano and George Gershwin to IPR's Studio A.

The Loch Ness Monsters perform in Studio A ahead of this Thursday's brass and percussion concert. They came to Studio A to discuss the unique quirks and challenges of playing with a chamber ensemble consisting solely of trombones.

Mia Safdie, Hailey Culp and Yunpeng Yang, all piano students at Interlochen, preview the Academy's upcoming Dr. Rosalyn Tureck Memorial Concert.

From Carnegie Hall to the Metropolitan Opera, renowned baritone Gordon Hawkins has shared the operatic stage with Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, and Grace Bumbry. His roles over his career have included title roles in "Rigoletto" and "Porgy and Bess," as well as Alberich in the "Ring" cycle, Baron Scarpia in "Tosca" and Marcello in "La boheme." He currently serves on the faculty at Arizona State...

Guitarist and Interlochen Arts Academy junior Paloma Chaprnka visited Studio A to give a preview of Sunday's concert with the TC Phil.

Violinist Blaise Sytsma-Reed, the 2025 winner of the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra's annual Young Artist Competition, will be performing with the orchestra this weekend. She is a senior at Charlevoix High School and studies with David Reimer in the Dorothy Gerber Strings Program. Blaise visited IPR's Studio A to play her winning piece, the first movement of Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole, with collabo...

Viridian Strings presents string quartets by Joseph Haydn and Maurice Ravel, plus two world premiere performances of music by Ben Webster and by Cherie Van Maanen and Tom Childs.

Professional sitar player Will Marsh and the Integration Ensemble will bring global music sounds at the Alluvion and Oliver Art Center this weekend. Marsh joined us in Studio A along with members of the Integration Ensemble, including cellist Crispin Campbell and tabla player Josh Mellinger.

Superstar pianist Lang Lang first heard "Rhapsody in Blue" on the radio as a child and refined his performances with help from jazz greats Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea. He'll perform it with Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra this weekend. He visited IPR to share his experience with teaching young musicians, from his classroom initiatives around the world to Interlochen students to his...

Conductor Cristian Măcelaru leads WYSO in a weekend of performances at Interlochen. Classical IPR broadcasts both concerts live on Saturday and Sunday evening.

Interlochen's Advanced High School String Quartets recorded Beethoven's String Quartet op. 18, no. 6 in IPR's Studio A. Movement 1: Allegro con brio Halyn Kim, violin, Porter Ranch, CA Alex Gemeinhardt, violin, New York, NY Kasinda Willingham, viola, Hamilton, OH Natalie Helm, cello (faculty coach) Movement 2: Adagio ma non troppo Hannah Schweiger, violin, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Jiles Defosse,...

They're stagehands, instrument services assistants, library interns and stage managers at Interlochen Arts Camp - they're also brass players who created a new ensemble this summer. Musicians: Timothy Hosler, trumpet, classical music stagehand Lillian Patriquin, trumpet, classical music stagehand Madeline DeJoy, horn, ensemble library intern Elijah Dugal, trombone, instrument services assistant Aid...