Beethoven Bad Boy

My dear friend, Kee-Hyun (Kee) Kim is the founding cellist of the acclaimed, Grammy winning Parker Quartet, founded in 2002 at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Since then the Parkers have gone on to win the Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at France’s Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition, and Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quarte...

Károly (Karcsi) Schranz was the original second violinist of the Grammy award winning, Takács String Quartet, who were also winners of the Evian and the Portsmouth International String Quartet competitions and annually performs throughout the world’s most prestigious concert halls since its forming at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary. Kárcsi, who makes his home in Boulder, Colorado, wh...

Daniel Ching is the founding first violinist of the celebrated Miró String Quartet, winners of Fischoff and the Banff International String Quartet competitions and have performed throughout the world’s most prestigious concert stages during their 27 years together. The Mirós are the string quartet in residence at the Butler School of music at the University of Texas in Austin, where they coach cha...

Rachel’s was a very important band from my formative years, I would even go out on a limb and say, they were one of the first American instrumental pop bands to make an indelible mark on the 90’s indie scene, using strings and piano as their prominent vehicle to make their artistic statement. Rachel Grimes was the founding keyboardist/pianist of the group and still composes incredible music to thi...

Dana Lyn is a modern day renaissance woman, a singular tour-de-force in music. Currently occupying the violin chair at the Tony-Award winning broadway show, Hadestown, she is a band leader, composer, arranger & an accomplished Irish fiddler, who is always striving to find the essence in her music and art. Humble and respectful, articulate yet funny, she is also a brilliant visual artist, who's mad...

Second episode of the four part mini-series, "Classically Trained Indie Rockers", Jae talks to the indie band, Thee More Shallows 's singer and song writer, Dee Kesler, who was originally based in San Francisco, CA, but now residing in Minneapolis, MN with his wife and two boys. 2021's "Dad Jams" , which is Thee More Shallows's fourth full-length album, and the first full album Dee has released si...

Beethoven Bad Boy is finally back! Jae has decided enough is enough, and make some episodes without a co-pilot, at least for now. This long awaited 2nd season will be split into two different, 4 episode mini series, first of which are interviews with his friends who play in rock and folk bands but came to that place from having trained in classical music. This first episode back, he chats to Tom H...

Jae & Paul ponder about whether classical music is taken as “elitist”, then pontificate about the Beatles and burgers from Five Guys. In a new SOB segment, we discuss the mis-dedication of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata no.9, op.47 “the Kreutzer”. If it makes you laugh and/or learn, then my job is done. Thanks for listening 🤘

The Asians are multiplying in the string sections of orchestras. It’s really happening! How and why are they becoming the torch bearers of the art form? Or is it just another fad, like the pregnant mother’s listening to Mozart’s music thinking, her baby in the womb will be smarter for it? Esteemed violinist & pedagogue, Lynn Chang joins Jae & Paul to explore these boundaries. SOB segment features,...

You mean the wedding song?!! Yes, “The Canon” by Johann Pachelbel is widely known as one of the most requested bridal processional music for the modern matrimony. Jae & Paul dissect, and talk about when it was discovered, how it came about, who made it popular, taking examples from different eras to examine how it has changed over the years. In this episode’s SOB (“Secrets of Beethoven) segment, w...

Jae and Paul chat with Charles Kelsey, chef and proprietor of Boston’s wickedly tasty sandwich shop, Cutty’s. We talk about where the similarities are in cooking and in making music, along with the segment, SOB, which stands for Secrets of Beethoven. Beethoven’s eating habits and his favorite foods.