Mona Seghatoleslami
Music Director, Afternoon Host/ProducerMona Seghatoleslami is the Music Director, host and producer on WXXI Classical 91.5 FM weekdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. She also hosts the lunchtime concert series Live From Hochstein Wednesdays at 12:10 p.m., interviews musicians, produces special programs, and works on any project she can find that helps connect people and music in our community through WXXI.
Mona is originally from New Jersey; she ventured out to the Midwest for college, where she studied viola at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She got her start in radio at WFIU in Bloomington, Indiana while in grad school studying musicology and library science at Indiana University. She also spent a few years as a radio announcer and producer in West (by God) Virginia, where she also wrote for the Charleston Gazette and taught American music at West Virginia State University.
When she’s not on the radio, you can find Mona attending concerts and movies, playing viola in community orchestras, occasionally strumming the ukulele, riding her bike everywhere, and reading as much as she can. She also books the bands for one of the coolest live music venues in Rochester – The Little Theatre Café.
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Visit new miniature universes in music by Eastman alum David S. Lefkowitz -
A conversation with internationally touring guitarist Raphaella Smits, from a 2017 interview, in anticipation of her return to Rochester -
Poetry inspires music in many ways. Hear music from choral pieces and art songs to poetic pieces for piano, winds, and strings recorded over the years on Live from Hochstein. -
Discussing Exploring Music and Saint Paul Sunday with Bill McGlaughlin, in an interview from 2013. -
A musical travel story from WXXI listener Victor Poleshuck, shared from his travel blog! -
Women who composed during the 17th and 18th centuries included courtesans and courtiers, nuns and entrepreneurs. Find out more about these composers and hear their music in this program. -
As we enter the new year, let's listen to some recent classical recordings from the Rochester-area music community! -
Pianist and music teacher Daryl Smith is published for the first time, in the Alfred "Solo Celebration" series for music students. -
Embark on a mysterious and beautiful journey in this new recording of composer/pianist Daniel Pesca's music. -
