Music at St. Albans in Davidson opened its 2013 – 2014 season with Bach Fest, featuring music by Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries. Members of Bach Fest joined us in the WDAV John Clark Performance Studio to perform selections from the upcoming concert and chat with WDAV’s Matt Rogers about Bach Fest 2013.

Our good friends The Kontras Quartet stop by to chat with host Matt Rogers and give us a preview of an upcoming concert, their last performance as the Western Piedmont Symphony's Quartet in Residence. The Kontras Quartet will also talk about their next project: Origins , the official Kontras Quartet debut album.

Irrepressible ragtime pianist Ethan Uslan joins Matt Rogers LIVE in the John Clark Performance Studio to play his ragtime arrangements of seasonal favorites.

WDAV was pleased to host pianist Pamela Howland in our studios for a live performance during our Fall Campaign. Listen to Howland perform selections from Chopin and talk with us about her work and her upcoming appearances.

Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violinist and conductor of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, chats with WDAV host Matt Rogers about the ensemble's 'Diamonds in the Rough' concert on January 23 and 25. Sitkovetsky will also give us a performance of works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky.

Agave Baroque, a San Francisco-based ensemble specializing in 17th century string chamber music, will be in Davidson as part of BachFest at St. Alban's Episcopal Church. Prior to this performance, they came to the WDAV performance studio to perform live and to chat with Matt Rogers about the upcoming show.

Opera Carolina begins its 2013 – 2014 season with Verdi’s Aida . Two of the performers, baritone Mark Rucker and soprano Othalie Graham, joined us in the WDAV John Clark Performance Studio. Midday host Matt Rogers talked with them about the show, and they sang highlights from Aida .

Soprano Margaret Carpenter joins members of the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra and Dr. David Tang for a visit to the WDAV studios for a live preview of their upcoming service featuring Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri. The service will take place at Sharon Presbyterian Church under the direction of Dr. Tang, Director of Music. Orchestra members include Barbara Blaker Krumdieck (baroque cello), Anthony Harvey (theorbo), and David Wilson and Peter Lekx (violin).

Violinist Karen Gomyo with accompanist Dina Vainshtein visited the WDAV John Clark Performance Studio for a live performance and to chat with host Rachel Stewart. Ms. Gomyo is the feature soloist in the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra's performance of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique , part of the CSO's Classics Series. 

Jessica Lindsey, assistant professor of clarinet at UNC Charlotte, and pianist Christian Bohnenstengel, an assistant professor at Southern Utah University, give a preview of an upcoming concert highlighting women composers. They will perform Sheila Silver's work Lullaby in its entirety.