GPB’s Sarah Zaslaw recently invited this busy conductor to chat with a focus on her roots and roles in metro Atlanta. In their conversation, Dworetz often zooms in on the human element in music: what it means to create sparkling art in relationship with the real people around you, for the real people listening.
They’re named after a flower, they compete to level up, and they’re all still in high school. They’re the Strelitzia Trio, three Atlanta-area teens who came together in 2024 and quickly jelled.
The concert violinist and R.E.M. bassist performed with the Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra featuring students from the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings and spoke with GPB's Kristi York Wooten before the show.
Love, scandal, great tunes, and death by tuberculosis? It’s La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, and The Atlanta Opera is bringing it to the stage starting Nov. 8. GPB’s Sarah Zaslaw recently sat down with guest conductor Evan Rogister.
On his swing through Atlanta in September, Lang Lang sat down with GPB’s Sarah Zaslaw to chat about everything from his move from China as a teen to his latest album, Piano Book 2.
In February, 25-year-old cellist Sterling Elliott soloed for the first time with the Atlanta Symphony — a performance airing this week on The ASO on GPB. While he was in town, Elliott spoke with GPB's Sarah Zaslaw.
LISTEN: Roderick Cox, music director of the opera orchestra in Montpellier, France, came home to Georgia to lead the ASO in concert last fall. GPB’s Sarah Zaslaw caught up with Roderick remotely in December.
In his album Amours Interdites (Forbidden Love) French pianist David Kadouch explores music by gay composers who concealed their sexuality in societies that wouldn't otherwise accept them.
They’re an international pair who have become Americans and put down roots in Georgia. Pianist Liza Stepanova moved from Belarus to Berlin and then to the States. Violinist Itamar Zorman studied in Israel and Germany before landing in New York, where the two met in school. In addition to their individual careers and their juggling act as parents, they perform together as two-thirds of the Lysander Piano Trio.
Atlanta Symphony Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann is the second woman to lead a major U.S. orchestra. She joined ASO in 2022 and is in the middle of the 2023-2024 season, which debuted this week on GPB Radio and airs Thursdays and Sundays and streams across the state of Georgia on GPB Classical. This weekend, GPB TV will air the documentary, My Boléro, about Stutzmann's first time conducting the famous 1928 orchestral work by French composer Maurice Ravel.
The Apollo Chamber Players in Houston, Texas, create concerts in response to book banning, the refugee crisis, the war in Gaza and other world events. Thousands of people attend their performances.
Katie Lehman talks with GPB's Sarah Zaslaw to discuss all things Spivey, from community educational programs and creativity on campus to its famed concert series.
