YourClassical MPR’s Tynia Major speaks with Minnesota Opera Intimacy Director Doug Scholz-Carlson about what his job entails and how important his work is for both performers and audiences. Intimacy Directors play integral roles in the arts industry and are particularly needed during productions featuring a love story, such as the opera’s production of ‘The Barber of Seville,’ which opened on May 3 and runs through May 18.
Harpist Ashley Jackson’s latest project was inspired by her grandmother. She says some of her earliest memories are of the grounded and rooted feeling she would get as she listened to musical services at church with her grandmother. The result of this inspiration is her latest album, ‘Take Me to the Water.’
Khatia Buniatishvili speaks with host Julie Amacher about the transformative and healing power of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music. She dedicated her 10th and latest album to the music of Mozart and recorded it alongside the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
Get ready to move and gallop in ‘Toroi Bandi,’ the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime featuring traditional Mongolian folk music and original illustration and animation by Joseph Midthun and Daniel Hoffstrom. Listen now!
Countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen performs ‘Mond so Gehst du Wieder auf Edi’ from Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s ‘Abschiedslieder’ with pianist John Churchwell.
Nicole Keller performs ‘Toccata in F Major,’ BuxWV 156 by Dietrich Buxtehude. This video was filmed in the beautiful sanctuary at Hamline Church United Methodist in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Pipedreams had the pleasure of meeting organist and professor Nicole Keller during her visit at Hamline Church United Methodist in St. Paul, Minnesota. Get to know Keller, her background in music and what drives her teaching and performing.
Nicole Keller performs ‘Almande’ from ‘Klavierbuch der Susanne van Soldt’ (1590). This video was filmed in the beautiful sanctuary at Hamline Church United Methodist in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Nicole Keller performs ‘De Frans Galliard’ from ‘Klavierbuch der Susanne van Soldt’ (1590). This video was filmed in the beautiful sanctuary at Hamline Church United Methodist in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Nicole Keller performs ‘Myn God Voet mi Gals myn Herder Ghepressen, 23 Sallem’ from ‘Klavierbuch der Susanne van Soldt,’ 1590. This video was filmed in the beautiful sanctuary at Hamline Church United Methodist in Saint Paul, Minnesota.