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Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

On this episode, we'll hear the second half of a performance given by multiple Grammy Award-winning vocalist and artist Cecile McLorin Salvant. She is joined by her longtime collaborators Sullivan Fortner on piano and Keita Ogawa on percussion, and for the first time in a public performance, banjo player Noam Pikelny.

On this episode, we’ll hear excerpts from a closing day co-bill presented at the Lucas Theatre for the Arts. Festival shows across april 8, 2023 involved many French and creole influences, and this one was no exception. The concert that we’ll listen to involved acclaimed vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant, an artist with unbound creativity, alongside the unclassifiable French vocal and percussion ens...

On this episode, we’ll hear two performances from the 2023 festival during the Philip Dukes & Friends chamber music series, along with a 2016 festival concert featuring the ensemble L'arte del mondo with Lorenza Boranni on violin. The bulk of the program will focus on the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but we’ll begin with a work from the middle Baroque period by English composer Henry Purcell....

On this episode, we listen to the March 29, 2023 performance of the Beethoven Septet in E-flat Major, Opus 20, played during the second concert of our Philip Dukes & Friends chamber music series. Later in the program, we’ll shift gears to listen to a portion of Terence Blanchard’s festival debut, when he and his band E-Collective were joined by the Turtle Island Quartet.

On this first episode of the 16h season of Savannah Music Festival LIVE, we'll listen to part two of a 2023 festival co-bill that featured two elder statesmen of jazz saxophone: Charles McPherson and Houston Person. McPherson led his quintet featuring trumpeter Sean Jones, while Person was featured alongside pianist Joe Alterman's trio.

On this episode, we'll listen to part one of a 2023 festival co-bill that featured two elder statesmen of jazz saxophone: Charles McPherson and Houston Person. McPherson led his quintet featuring trumpeter Sean Jones, while Person was featured alongside pianist Joe Alterman's trio.

On this episode, we’ll listen back to two distinctive keyboard driven ensembles presented during our 2019 festival season: the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio and Medeski’s Mad Skillet, a band fronted by John Medeski and Will Bernard.

On this episode, rather than listening in on only two past performances, we’ll focus on some of the fantastic guitar playing that occurred at our 2022 festival. we’ll hear a range of instrumentalists and styles, including bluegrass flatpicker Bryan Sutton, jazz greats John Jorgenson and Pasquale Grasso, blues players Corey Harris and Eddie 9V, and the tuareg blues of pioneering female guitarist Fa...

On this episode, we listen to a concert at our 2022 festival given by Venezuelan cuatro player and composer Jorge Glem and American accordionist, pianist and composer Sam Reider.

On this episode, we’ll listen to highlights from a concert at our 2022 festival given by the renowned John Jorgenson Quintet.

On this episode, we’ll listen to highlights from our 2022 festival. Stylistically, this co-bill spanned the Delta and Piedmont blues of the American South along with the desert blues and Tende music of Niger. The artists involved were Corey Harris, Phil Wiggins and Cedric Watson in the first half with True Blues, followed by Les Filles de Illighadad.

This program featured new music composed by Michael Nyman for pianist Sebastian Knauer, which was intertwined with Mozart Sonatas. We begin with the third movement from Mozart’s Piano Sonata in F Major K. 332, performed by Sebastian Knauer.

On this episode we listen to portions of two magnificent piano recitals given at our festival in 2022 – one by Russian-American pianist Olga Kern in her Savannah debut, and the other by German pianist Sebastian Knauer, a longtime participant in the festival’s chamber music series.

On this episode we listen to performances by two exceptional young jazz musicians recorded at our 2022 festival: pianist Emmet Cohen with his trio and vocalist Samara Joy with the Pasquale Grasso Trio.

On this episode we’ll listen to two exceptional acoustic music projects: one fiddle and banjo duo that explores and enlivens the old-time tradition, and the other that turns the stringband ensemble format on its head, incorporating elements of swing, bluegrass, Celtic music and other musical styles in a daring and virtuosic fashion. We begin with the clawhammer banjo and fiddle playing of Allison...

On this episode, we’ll listen to the a 2019 performance given by the Del McCoury Band, on an evening that we dubbed Del’s 80th birthday “Delebration.” In the second half, we’ll keep the bluegrass going with a segment of a 2015 concert given by Balsam Range.