Stay on top of what's happening in the arts community here in the Valley. KBACH's Greg Kostraba interviews talented musicians, conductors, and other arts leaders who visit the Phoenix area or call it home.
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This Week in Classical Music, hosted by K-BACH's Randy Kinkel, keeps you up to date in the world of classical music, both performers and composers. Randy also hosts weekend programs on K-BACH.
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Pianist Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner Plays Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with the Phoenix Symphony
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13:04The Phoenix Symphony opens its 2025-2026 season October 3-5 at Symphony Hall with Dvorak's "New World" Symphony and guest pianist...
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Arizona Pops Orchestra debuts with Mat & Savanna Shaw
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10:57John Doney is the founder, President & CEO of the Arizona Pops Orchestra, which makes its debut Saturday, September 27 at Tempe Center for the...
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Safe from Summer Fires, Oracle Piano Society Previews Fall/Winter Activities
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8:42Pianist Stephen Cook (pictured, left) is the founder and Artistic Director of the Oracle Piano Society in Oracle, Arizona, which presents a...
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Smooth Summer Sounds on the Downtown Chamber Series
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12:46ASU professors flutist Elizabeth Buck and guitarist Martha Masters will be in recital on the Downtown Chamber Series Saturday & Sunday, August...
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The "Revolutionary" Etude, Clair de Lune & More with Pianist Miki Aoki
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9:06ASU Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano Miki Aoki will present a solo piano recital on Saturday, July 12th at the Recital Hall in the Steinway...
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June 21st is the worldwide Make Music Day, and Rosie’s House has planned free performances and other activities at 17 locations throughout the...
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The Arizona Piano Institute presents its 10th Summer Festival June 1st through the 7th at Phoenix College. Before the festival begins, the faculty of...
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The MusicaNova Orchestra Explores Humor in Classical Music
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11:55The MusicaNova Orchestra presents its "Laughing with Prokofiev, Stravinsky & Haydn" concert May 18th at the Musical Instrument Museum....
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The SOUNDS Academy presents its 10th Anniversary Benefit Concert on May 16th at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix. The Academy’s Founder and CEO...
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Phoenix Chorale Brings "American Voices" to Life
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10:54The Phoenix Chorale concludes its season on Saturday & Sunday, May 3rd and 4th with a program called “American Voices." The Chorale...
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Martin James Bartlett, the 2014 BBC Young Musician of the Year, Returns to Tempe
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8:53British Pianist Martin James Bartlett will perform at Tempe Center for the Arts, Sunday, April 13th, as part of the Hayden’s Ferry Chamber...
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Classical Music Inside Out with the Mike Block Trio
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10:02The Mike Block Trio will be featured on the next concert of the Classical Music Inside Out series at Mesa Arts Center, Wednesday, April 9. The...
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Rachmaninoff & Copland with the Arizona MusicFest Festival Orchestra
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10:56The Arizona MusicFest Festival Orchestra culminates its annual week-long residency in the Valley with a performance Sunday, March 30th at 2pm at La...
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Catch the "Trout" Quintet with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Phoenix
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11:07The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) will be in performance Saturday, March 22 at Camelback Bible Church in Paradise Valley. The co-...
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The first-ever collaboration between the MusicaNova Orchestra & Phoenix Chorale
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11:10The MusicaNova Orchestra & Phoenix Chorale team up for performances Saturday & Sunday, March 8-9 at Camelback Bible Church in Paradise Valley...
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Connor Chee, Combining His Navajo Heritage and Classical Piano Training in Oracle
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8:02The Oracle Piano Society presents a recital by Navajo pianist/composer Connor Chee, Sunday afternoon, February 16th at 3 at the Oracle Center for the...
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The Phoenix Chamber Music Society presents a program curated by composer-in-residence and violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Saturday afternoon, February...
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Boston-based cellist Rhonda Rider comes to Phoenix to perform at the MIM with the MusicNova Orchestra this Saturday at 6 P-M. She recently chatted...
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Dances for the Ears in Scottsdale with Jeffrey Siegel
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8:13Pianist Jeffrey Siegel continues his 46th season of Keyboard Conversations at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, January 14 at...
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The East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Blending Old and New in Paradise Valley
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8:09The East Coast Chamber Orchestra brings a program that blends old and new to Camelback Bible Church Saturday, January 11 at 7:30pm. Co-Executive...
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The Oracle Piano Society Kicks Off 2025 with a Festival of Chamber Music
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10:42The Oracle Piano Society presents its annual Chamber Music Festival January 2-5 in Oracle, Arizona. The society's founder and Artistic Director...
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The Solo Piano Project Vol. 1 with ASU grad Charles Szczepanek
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17:54Former Music Director at the Church of the Ascension in Fountain Hills and ASU graduate Charles Szczepanek has a new album out on Heart Dance Records...
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A Few of Our Favorite Things in Scottsdale with Jeffrey Siegel
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7:10Pianist Jeffrey Siegel begins his 46th season of Keyboard Conversations at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, December 10 at 7...
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An Immersion of Chamber Music and Visuals at Ravenscroft Hall
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11:52Violist and ASU professor Nancy Buck curates a series of chamber music concerts at Ravenscroft Hall in Scottsdale, and will be featured in the...
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Violinist and Sphinx Competition Winner Njioma Grevious comes to Mesa for a Classical Music Inside Out residency
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11:40Violinist and Sphinx Competition Winner Njioma Grevious comes to the East Valley for a Classical Music Inside Out residency, including a performance...
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The Jerusalem Quartet and pianist Inon Barnatan bring Haydn, Shostakovich & Brahms to the Valley
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13:25The Phoenix Chamber Music Society is bringing in the Jerusalem Quartet and pianist Inon Barnatan for a performance of string quartets by Haydn and...
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Dover Quartet's Camden Shaw on returning to Mozart (& Phoenix) after recent Beethoven recordings
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10:42The Phoenix Chamber Music Society opens its 65th season by bringing in the Dover Quartet for a performance Sunday afternoon, October 27 at Camelback...
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Nick Luby and Susan Zhang bring The Concert Truck to Chandler
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8:12The Concert Truck, a fully-functioning mobile concert hall complete with lights, sound system, and piano, will be making a stop in Chandler October...
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Two of Arizona's premiere vocal ensembles team up to perform two 20th-century choral masterpieces
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14:18The Phoenix Chorale and Tucson's True Concord (pictured) will perform the Requiem by Maurice Durufle and Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir Sunday...
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Janet Green on the Phoenix Chamber Music Society's 65th season
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17:45Janet Green has been attending Phoenix Chamber Music Society concerts since she was a teenager, and is now Executive Director of the society. She...
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The Oracle Piano Society's ambitious plans to become the "Ravinia of Arizona"
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15:58Pianist Stephen Cook is founder and Artistic Director of the Oracle Piano Society in Oracle, Arizona, which enriches rural Pinal County with a...
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Cellist Zuill Bailey on Classical Music Inside Out 2024-2025
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13:53Cellist Zuill Bailey created the Classical Music Inside Out series at Mesa Arts Center more than a decade ago and continues to curate the series.He...
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The Flagstaff Piano Festival brings world-class pianists to the high desert
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12:41NAU piano professor Silvan Negruțiu is the founder and Artistic Director of the Flagstaff Piano Festival. KBACH's Greg Kostraba recently chatted with...
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Conductor Tito Muñoz on his Ten Years with the Phoenix Symphony
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12:01Tito Muñoz just concluded his tenth and final season as Music Director of the Phoenix Symphony. KBACH's Greg Kostraba recently caught up with Maestro...
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Violinist Steven Moeckel in a "Celebration" of chamber music at Ravenscroft Hall
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6:29Former Phoenix Symphony Concertmaster Steven Moeckel will be on the final concert of the second season of Chamber @ Ravenscroft, Saturday, May 18th...
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Phoenix Boys Choir goes "Skyward" with Simply Three and a World Premiere
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12:59The Phoenix Boys Choir presents its season finale concert Friday and Saturday, May 10th and May 11th. The program, called "Skyward," will feature the...
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Pianist Michael Stephen Brown on life, music and Mozart's Piano Concerto #10 for two pianos
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8:37Pianists Michael Stephen Brown and Adam Golka join Maestro Tito Muñoz and the Phoenix Symphony for performances of the Piano Concerto #10 (for two...
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Guitarist Jason Vieaux brings his castanets to Phoenix
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6:00Guitarist Jason Vieaux will join the Escher Quartet for a performance at Central United Methodist Church in Phoenix, Friday, April 12th. The program...
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Bassoonist Kristilyn Woods brings a touch of the 'Vegas Elvis' to the MIM
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11:24The MusicaNova Orchestra presents "Dead Elvis and Other Gems" Sunday, March 24 at the Musical Instrument Museum. The program includes works by Joseph...
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Takacs Quartet presents a Phoenix premiere
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13:14The Takács Quartet comes to the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts for a performance of Flow, a new work by Phoenix composer Nokuthula...
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Composer Christopher Tin & The Lost Birds
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10:54The Phoenix Chorale presents two contrasting yet complementary works for voices and orchestra Saturday & Sunday, March 9 & 10 in Scottsdale:...
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Clarinetist David Shifrin & the Phoenix Chamber Music Festival
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10:09The Phoenix Chamber Music Society (PCMS) presents its 15th annual festival from March 2-8 at various locations throughout the Valley. KBACH's Greg...
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The Arizona Bach Festival presents its 15th annual festival from February 25 through March 17. KBACH's Greg Kostraba chatted with the chairman of the...
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The Phoenix Chamber Music Society presents the Isidore Quartet in concert at Central United Methodist Church in Phoenix, Saturday, February 10 at 7:...
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Pianist Jeffrey Siegel presents "A French Feast"
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8:16Jeffrey Siegel (pictured) continues his Keyboard Conversations series at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday, February 6 at 7:30pm...
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MusicaNova Orchestra presents "Finished Unfinished"
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21:30Conductor Warren Cohen (pictured) and the MusicaNova Orchestra present Finished Unfinished, a concert at the Musical Instrument Museum on Monday,...
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Composer David Ludwig and violinist Bella Hristova
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12:25Composer David Ludwig wrote a violin concerto as a wedding present for his bride, Bella Hristova, who will be performing it January 5-7 with...
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Phoenix welcomes Ilmar Gavilan of Harlem Quartet.
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28:27Violinist Ilmar Gavilan, a native of Havana, Cuba, has had a remarkable performing career that has taken him all over the world, including Phoenix...
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Harpist Rita Costanzi and the Phoenix Chapter
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26:50Phoenix Chapter of the American Harp Society presents Rita Costanzi, an internationally acclaimed harpist and actress that has recently...
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German-born violinist Steven Moeckel, Germany to Arizona and NAU
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33:16A graduate of both the famous Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg and Indiana University in Bloomington, Steven Moeckel has served as Concertmaster of...
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