Julia Figueras
Music Director and Midday hostA Strong Memorial baby and Greece Arcadia grad, Julia Figueras is the Music Director and mid-day host for WXXI-FM. She is also the producer and host for the award-winning monthly interview/performance show, Backstage Pass.
Figueras began her radio life in 1980 at WICN in Worcester, MA, and has been playing formats ranging from classical to rock to jazz, with a dash of talk in Boston, MA as well as at stations in Concord and Portsmouth, NH. She received her bachelor's degree in theater, cum laude, from Brandeis University.
The mother of two daughters, she has a passion for the Boston Red Sox and New York Times crossword puzzles, loves Dvořák, Radiohead, Springsteen, and Brahms, and enjoys reading mysteries and histories. She is also a member of a trivia team that competes in weekly quizzes throughout Rochester. Currently, Figueras sits on the Board of Directors for the Penfield Symphony Orchestra with her husband, Peter Iglinski, and holds an honorary seat on the Amadeus Children's Chorale board. Previously, she spent 10 years on the Board of the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.
Figueras also writes the WXXI Classical Music e-Newsletter. Sign up here!
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It was just another CD package. Then we opened it and found ourselves looking at a photo of Rochester vocalist and songwriter Lydia Adelle Brown, who once interned at WXXI Classical. -
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A chat about the RPO concerts on 9/23 & 9/25/21
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From the first notes of Roots, it's clear that Randall Goosby is an astounding talent and this is a very special debut.
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Andreas Delfs has just been named the new Music Director of your Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and he has a long and ambitious agenda for the…
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Composer, pianist, and founder of the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, Gabriela Lena Frank was born with a neurosensory…
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Beethoven turns 250 in December (no one knows the precise date), and WXXI Classical is throwing him party! Since so many concert series were cancelled,…
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Violas ruled the day when the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester wrapped up the season with two German masters. On the program: a Mendelssohn quintet…
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The Society for Chamber Music in Rochester served up a musical potpourri for this concert, with something old, something new, three young artists, and the…
