Studio A

Pianists, friends and Interlochen Arts Academy students Helen Nguyen and Kieran Alston brought music of Felix Mendelssohn, John Corigliano and George Gershwin to IPR's Studio A.

The Loch Ness Monsters perform in Studio A ahead of this Thursday's brass and percussion concert. They came to Studio A to discuss the unique quirks and challenges of playing with a chamber ensemble consisting solely of trombones.

Mia Safdie, Hailey Culp and Yunpeng Yang, all piano students at Interlochen, preview the Academy's upcoming Dr. Rosalyn Tureck Memorial Concert.

From Carnegie Hall to the Metropolitan Opera, renowned baritone Gordon Hawkins has shared the operatic stage with Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, and Grace Bumbry. His roles over his career have included title roles in "Rigoletto" and "Porgy and Bess," as well as Alberich in the "Ring" cycle, Baron Scarpia in "Tosca" and Marcello in "La boheme." He currently serves on the faculty at Arizona State University. He visited IPR's Studio A, where he reflected on his distinguished career and recorded Samuel Barber's "Sure on this shining night" with collaborative pianist Casey Robards.

Guitarist and Interlochen Arts Academy junior Paloma Chaprnka visited Studio A to give a preview of Sunday's concert with the TC Phil.

Violinist Blaise Sytsma-Reed, the 2025 winner of the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra's annual Young Artist Competition, will be performing with the orchestra this weekend. She is a senior at Charlevoix High School and studies with David Reimer in the Dorothy Gerber Strings Program. Blaise visited IPR's Studio A to play her winning piece, the first movement of Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole, with collaborative pianist Ya-Ju Chuang. She spoke about how she balances music, sports, academics and life. She also talked about her eclectic musical tastes.

Viridian Strings presents string quartets by Joseph Haydn and Maurice Ravel, plus two world premiere performances of music by Ben Webster and by Cherie Van Maanen and Tom Childs.

Professional sitar player Will Marsh and the Integration Ensemble will bring global music sounds at the Alluvion and Oliver Art Center this weekend. Marsh joined us in Studio A along with members of the Integration Ensemble, including cellist Crispin Campbell and tabla player Josh Mellinger.

Superstar pianist Lang Lang first heard "Rhapsody in Blue" on the radio as a child and refined his performances with help from jazz greats Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea. He'll perform it with Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra this weekend. He visited IPR to share his experience with teaching young musicians, from his classroom initiatives around the world to Interlochen students to his own son. What does a young classical musician need to succeed in the 21st century?

Conductor Cristian Măcelaru leads WYSO in a weekend of performances at Interlochen. Classical IPR broadcasts both concerts live on Saturday and Sunday evening.

Interlochen's Advanced High School String Quartets recorded Beethoven's String Quartet op. 18, no. 6 in IPR's Studio A. Movement 1: Allegro con brio Halyn Kim, violin, Porter Ranch, CA Alex Gemeinhardt, violin, New York, NY Kasinda Willingham, viola, Hamilton, OH Natalie Helm, cello (faculty coach) Movement 2: Adagio ma non troppo Hannah Schweiger, violin, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Jiles Defosse, violin, Annapolis, MD Ashton Carter, viola, Memphis, TN Noah Scharback, cello, Eden Prairie, MN Lenny Schranze, faculty coach Movement 3: Scherzo: Allegro - Trio Karis Shin, violin, Incheon, South Korea Kieran Niska, violin, Mason, OH Lake Weeks, viola, Powell, OH Albert Lee, cello, Harrington Park, NJ Tim Shiu, faculty coach Movement 4: La Malinconia: Adagio – Allegretto quasi Allegro - adagio - Allegretto - Un poco adagio - Prestissimo Julia Lee, violin, Ellicott City, MD Evie Chow, violin, Edina, MN Preston Elliot, viola, Kansas City, MO Jisoo Park, cello, Troy, MI Mark Rudoff, faculty coach

They're stagehands, instrument services assistants, library interns and stage managers at Interlochen Arts Camp - they're also brass players who created a new ensemble this summer. Musicians: Timothy Hosler, trumpet, classical music stagehand Lillian Patriquin, trumpet, classical music stagehand Madeline DeJoy, horn, ensemble library intern Elijah Dugal, trombone, instrument services assistant Aidan Carney, tuba, classical music stage manager Tyler Castellanos, trumpet, classical music stage manager (Böhme only) Music in this episode: Victor Ewald, Brass Quintet no. 1, I. Moderato Oskar Böhme, “Trumpet” Sextet, I. Adagio ma non tanto, Allegro molto

Louis Langrée conducts WYSO at Interlochen in its fifth concert of the 2025 season. Hear Classical IPR's live broadcast this Sunday, July 27, at 7:30 PM ET.

Chart a course to The Little Fleet this Wednesday for a Classical Happy Hour with Matthew Cochran, Laura Osgood Brown and Keith Brown. They'll present a program sea shanties and storytelling at The Little Fleet with music from the high seas to the Great Lakes. Music performed in Studio A "The Maid on the Shore" "The Flying Dutchman" "The Mermaid"

The quartet members visited Studio A to give a preview of a few more upcoming recitals in northern Michigan this summer, including one on Interlochen's campus and another at the Music House Museum. The members of the Kodak Quartet are Edgar Donati (violin), Martin Noh (violin), Daniel Spink (viola) and Blake Kitayama (cello). Music performed in Studio A Johannes Brahms, String Quartet no. 2 in A minor: I. Allegro non troppo Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in D major, op. 20 no. 4: IV. Presto scherzando

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra returns to Interlochen for two concerts led by music director Jader Bignamini.

Matthias Pintscher leads Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra in their third concert of the 2025 season. Classical IPR presents the live broadcast this Sunday, July 13 at 7:30 PM ET.

Scaglione leads the World Youth Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, July 6 in a program featuring a Dvorak symphony and new music by Jeff Scott.

Conductor Delyana Lazarova conducts Interlochen's rising talent in a demanding work by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Meet IPR's latest Sound Garden Project ensemble in residence and hear about how they're bringing the sounds of the saxophone quartet to northern Michigan this week. Members Roberto Campa, Laura Ramsay, Kyle Kato and Samuel Dishon visited IPR's Studio A to talk about how they're taking their Fischoff Award-winning sounds from the concert hall to the public, with performances at gas stations, campgrounds, coffee shops and other unexpected places across the region. Music performed in IPR's Studio A Karalyn Schubring, Ambivert: I. Extrovert Edvard Grieg, Holberg Suite, II. Sarabande