Piedmont Arts

WDAV's Matt Rogers talks to Martha Connerton, director of Kinetic Works about "The Season Ballet" featuring the score by Alexander Glazunov.

Frank Dominguez talks with Richard Rosenberg, Artistic Director of the Union Symphony, about the upcoming Czech & Balances performance at The Batte Center at Wingate University.

Frank Dominguez speaks with Arturo Sandoval about his beginnings studying classical trumpet in Havana, an apprenticeship with the legendary Dizzy Gillespie and the highlights of his spectacular career. Sandoval will give a free jazz concert in the courtyard at Phillips Place in Southeast Charlotte at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15th.

Frank Dominguez welcomes Dr. Kathleen Jameson, President and CEO of the Mint Museum, of Art about their upcoming exhibit, The Panama Canal at 100 . Listen to the interview below and learn how this exhibit came to Charlotte.

Sir James Galway, the virtuoso flute player known as “The Man with the Golden Flute,” visits Charlotte to perform a special Charlotte Symphony Orchestra event, conducted by Christopher Warren-Green. Before his performance with the CSO, Sir James Galway took a moment to speak with WDAV's Rachel Stewart, chatting about topics such as Mozart, Bach, and his favorite band, Pink Floyd.

Founder Elizabeth Kowalski and composer Orlando Cela speak with Matt Rogers about the Charlotte New Music Festival. The festival lasts June 17th - 29 th with a variety of cutting-edge performers and composers at different venues.

The project Violins of Hope displayed violins that had survived the concentration camps of the Holocaust, and had been lovingly restored by Israeli craftsman Amnon Weinstein. Now UNC Charlotte music professor James Grymes has published a book about the Violins of Hope, and the inspiring stories behind them. He discusses the book and the project with WDAV’s Frank Dominguez.

The music students of the Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte will present a Spring Recital including an exciting first for the school: the premiere of a new work by the acclaimed Charlotte-born composer Dan Locklair, commissioned on behalf of the school by the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. Before they present this performance, Dan Locklair and the students will be in WDAV's John Clark Performance Studio to give us a preview.

Dongho Lee, a celebrated organist and the Associate Director of Music at Christ Church Episcopal in Charlotte, spoke with Frank Dominguez for a WDAV special arts feature. Ms. Lee has toured throughout the United States, Europe, and South Korea, and she has earned numerous awards, including First Prize in the 2001 Klais Jang Cheon Organ Competition (Seoul) and Finalist standing in the 2008 Canadian International Organ Competition (Montreal). She will play the inaugural concert of the series "Beauty to be Heard" at Christ Episcopal Church in Charlotte on September 8.

Myelita Melton chats with conductor David Hagy about his 25 seasons as conductor of the Salisbury Symphony.