2/2 Pianist Alex Chen speaks of his passion for rocket science and performs music by Ravel; violinist Ayaan Ahmad plays Beethoven and shares how an accident transformed his musicianship; composer Elisa Kain Johnson shares a piece inspired by the loss of a loved one; and saxophonist Harry Jo plays “Naima” by John Coltrane.
2/9 It’s a Highlight show with artists TBA.
2/16 Clarinetist Alex Laing, President and Artistic Director of the Gateways Music Festival, joins Peter Dugan at the Atlanta Music Project for a program featuring musicians from Georgia! We hear the Atlanta Music Project Senior Youth Choir performing the Spiritual, We Shall Walk Through the Valley; flutist Sasha Tarassenko shares her love for Eastern European Folk music; percussionist Anh Ho performs Sibelius on marimba; and Peter collaborates with pianist and FTT alum Helen Bryan on Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite.
2/23 On this episode we’ll hear violinist Lily Sullivan perform a Sonata by Beethoven; soprano Violet Paris-Hillmer performs a song by Debussy; composer and violinist Malik Muhammad plays his own composition, “Magnitude;” pianist Caleb Sharkey performs J.S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C; and cellist Nicholas Kim performs a cello sonata by Dmitri Shostakovich.