Inside the Music: The Reno Phil Podcast

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, and composer Michelle Isaac speak with Chris Morrison about the sixth and final concerts of the Reno Phil's 2025-26 Classix season, "Carmina Burana," happening April 17-19, 2026. The concerts include the Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront by Leonard Bernstein, the world premiere of Pressing Truths by Michelle Isaac, and Carmina Burana by C...

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, speaks with Chris Morrison about the fifth concerts of the Reno Phil's 2025-26 Classix season, "Mendelssohn Violin Concerto," on March 21 and 22, 2026. The concerts feature Robin's Eye View by Autumn Maria Reed, the Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 by Felix Mendelssohn, with violin soloist Nathan Amaral, and the Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op...

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, speaks with Chris Morrison about the fourth concerts of the Reno Phil's 2025-26 Classix season, "Stravinsky's Firebird," on February 21 and 22, 2026. The concerts include  What Trees May Speak by Jonathan Sokol, the Suite from Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird , and the Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with...

Nicholas Hersh, the guest conductor for the Reno Phil's concerts "Elgar Cello Concerto" on January 24 and 25, 2026, speaks with Chris Morrison about his life and career, and the featured music. The concerts will feature the Overture by Grazyna Bacewicz, the Cello Concerto by Sir Edward Elgar, with Davidson Fellow Zlatomir Fung as cello soloist, and the Symphony No. 7 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, speaks with Chris Morrison about the second concerts of the Reno Phil's 2025-26 Classix season, "John Williams and Sibelius," on November 8 and 9, 2025. The concerts include Transcend by Zhou Tian, Escapades by John Williams (with soloists Timothy McAllister, alto saxophone, and Tennison Watts, vibraphone), and two pieces by Jean Sibelius, Fin...

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, and Mark Clague, musicologist and professor at the University of Michigan, speak with Chris Morrison about the opening concerts of the Reno Phil's 2025-26 Classix Season, "American Masters," on October 11 and 12, 2025. The concerts include the Piano Concerto in One Movement by Florence Price and Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin, both with p...

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, talks with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's "Lord Nelson Mass" concerts, the final concerts of the orchestra's 2024-25 Classix season, on April 12 and 13, 2025. The concerts feature the west coast premiere of Go where the wind takes you... by Iryna Aleksiychuk, the Mathis der Maler Symphony by Paul Hindemith, and, with the Reno Phil Chorus...

Composer Marko Bajzer talks about his composition  The Sacrifice of Prometheus , which receives its World Premiere at the Reno Phil's concerts "Beethoven's Emperor Concerto" on March 22 and 23, 2025. Music director Laura Jackson leads the concerts, which also include Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, the "Emperor," with Davidson Fellow Katherine Emma Liu as piano soloist, and The Pines of Rome by...

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, talks with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's "Bruckner's Romantic Symphony" concerts, the fourth concerts of the orchestra's 2024-25 Classix season, on February 22 and 23, 2025. Also appearing on the podcast are violinist Alexi Kenney and Reno Phil principal French horn John Lenz. The concerts include the Violin Concerto by Igor Stravinsky...

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, talks with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's "Symphonie fantastique" concerts, the third concerts of the orchestra's 2024-25 Classix season, on January 25 and 26, 2025. The program includes La valse by Maurice Ravel, the Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor by Camille Saint-Saens, with cello soloist Sterling Elliott, and the Symphonie fantastiqu...

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, talks with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's "Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto" concerts, the second concerts of the orchestra's 2024-25 Classix season, on November 23 and 24, 2024. The music on the program includes the Overture to La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi, the Negro Folk Symphony by William Dawson, and the Piano Concerto No. 2 by...

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, and Aaron Doty, the President and CEO of the Reno Phil, discuss the concerts of the 2024-25 Classix season, including the season-opening performances, "Beethoven's Eroica," on September 28 and 19, 2024.

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, and Jennifer Tibben, director of the Reno Phil Chorus, talk with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's "Mahler's Fifth Symphony" concerts, the final concerts of the orchestra's 2023-24 season, on April 20 and 21, 2024. The music includes the Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler as well as the Gloria by Francis Poulenc.

Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, and Mark Clague, Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, Director of the University's Gershwin Initiative, and Editor-in-Chief of the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition, talk with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's "Gershwin Celebration" concerts on March 23 and 24, 2024. The music includes Maurice Ravel's Boléro ; Spaghetti...

Reno Phil music director and conductor Laura Jackson, composer Paul Novak, violin soloist Charlotte Marckx, and Tacie Moessner of the Davidson Institute for Talent Development speak with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's concerts "Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony" on February 24 and 25, 2024. The concerts include longing is an aviary by Paul Novak, the Violin Concerto No. 4 by Wolfgang Amadeus Moz...

Guest conductor Ramón Tebar talks about his concerts "Spanish Nights" with the Reno Phil on January 27 and 28, 2024, which include the Four Dances from Estancia by Alberto Ginastera, the Fantasía para un gentilhombre by Joaquín Rodrigo, and the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat by Manuel de Falla.

Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor Laura Jackson talks with Chris Morrison about the second concert of the 2023-24 Reno Phil season, on November 11 and 12, 2023, featuring Voices Shouting Out by Nkeiru Okoye, the Symphony No. 6 by Jean Sibelius, and the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Johannes Brahms, with piano soloist Jon Nakamatsu.

Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor Laura Jackson talks with Chris Morrison about both the 2023-24 Reno Phil season, as well as the October 14 and 15, 2023 season-opening concerts featuring Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Also, pianist Daniela Liebman talks about her career and the Piano Concerto by Clara Schumann she'll be playing with the Reno Phil at the October co...

Reno Phil music director-conductor Laura Jackson and Lynne Gray, who teaches classes on opera at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), speak with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's 2022-23 season-concluding performances of Georges Bizet's classic opera Carmen.

Recorded at the pre-concert talks prior to the Reno Phil's performances of March 25 and 26, 2023, "Clyne's Cello Concerto," this podcast features a discussion of women in conducting, and in the classical music world more generally, with Reno Phil music director and conductor Laura Jackson; Kristin Jurkscheit, executive director of the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship; Inbal Segev, the cello solois...

Reno Phil music director and conductor Laura Jackson and violinist Adé Williams speak with Chris Morrison about the fourth concerts in the Reno Phil's 2022-23 Classix season. The music includes Felix Mendelssohn's atmospheric Hebrides Overture, the Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra by Max Bruch, and selections from Serge Prokofiev's classic ballet Romeo and Juliet.

Reno Phil music director-conductor Laura Jackson and pianist Andrew von Oeyen speak with Chris Morrison about the third concerts in the Reno Phil's 2022-23 Classix season. The music includes "The Dancing Moonlight" by Dai Wei, Edvard Grieg's famous Piano Concerto in A minor, and the Symphony No. 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Ignacio Barrón Viela, the Reno Phil's new President and CEO, and Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor Laura Jackson speak with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil, Barrón Viela's background and hiring, and the second concerts of the Phil' 2022-23 Classix season, "The Organ Symphony," on November 12 and 13, 2022.

Reno Phil music director-conductor Laura Jackson speaks with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's 2022-23 Classix season, including the season-opening "Scheherazade" concerts on October 15 and 16, 2022. Also on the podcast is Wiley Skaret, the piano soloist in those October concerts.

Reno Phil music director-conductor Laura Jackson speaks with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's final performances of its 2021-22 season, including the World Premiere of Jimmy López Bellido's "Altered Landscape" Symphony No. 3, Debussy's "Clair de Lune," and Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."