Backstage Pass is a monthly live performance program which highlights performances by local and visiting musicians, giving Classical 91.5/90.3 listeners the backstage experience of meeting the artists “up close and personal.” Several times each year, Backstage Pass is performed before a live audience of sustaining members.
The series’ production team includes WXXI-FM Music Director and host Julia Figueras, Supervising Audio Engineer Andrew Croucher, and Executive Producer Jeanne Fisher.
In 2007, 2015, 2017, and 2018, Backstage Pass won Finalist Awards from the New York Festivals, and in 2009 it brought home a Bronze Medal from that international media competition.
Backstage pass is made possible in part by a gift from Drs. Dawn and Jacques Lipson to support performance, innovation and accessibility of the arts in the Rochester community.
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It's our biggest Backstage Pass of the year...really! Your Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra--all 84 of 'em--comes to our studio to play Faure,…
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Pianist Rebecca Penneys taught at the Eastman School of Music for almost 4 decades. As of this semester, she holds the title of Professor Emerita of…
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The Neave Trio has graced both Rochester stages and our airwaves-twice as guests of Live from Hochstein. This is your chance to hear them talk! On Friday,…
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Every summer, the Kanack School of Music offers a series of summer music programs for musicians spanning the ages from ages 4 to 18, teaching everything…
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For the first time ever, Backstage Pass is taking its show on the road, and you're invited! In celebration of the Gateways Music Festival, Julia Figueras…
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Almost 10 years ago, tenor Gregory Kunde and Linda Wojciechowski sang sacred songs together for our first ever holiday Backstage Pass. Since then, Gregory…
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Backstage PassMay 2, 2017Bassist James VanDemark is in his 40th year as a professor at the Eastman School of Music. Generations of his students have gone…
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Now that the Amenda Quartet has finished the Beethoven cycle, it's moving on to two other B's: Bartok and Brahms. On the next Backstage Pass, the…
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For 2 decades, pianist Rebecca Penneys, violinist Mikhail Kopelman, and cellist Stefan Reuss have made beautiful music together in the Salon Concert…
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Guitar and violin are an elegant combination, heard from the drawing rooms of the classical era to the concert halls of today. On this month's Backstage…