Backstage Pass

WXXI-FM'S LIVE RADIO SERIES Backstage Pass

Hosted by WXXI-FM's Julia Figueras

Backstage Pass, a live radio series on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1, is committed to highlighting performing artists in Rochester.

Backstage Pass is an hour-long radio series that is committed to highlighting performing artists – giving Classical 91.5/90.3 listeners the opportunity to hear local and visiting musicians performing live. The series’ production team includes WXXI-FM Music Director and Backstage Pass host Julia Figueras, Supervising Audio Technologist Andrew Croucher, Audio Technologist Jillian Kuchman and Vice President of Radio Jeanne Fisher. The series is made possible in part by a grant from the Gouvernet Arts Fund at Rochester Area Community Foundation.

Coming up on Backstage Pass

Tune in to Backstage Pass, Listen Live or download the Podcast available for most of the artists.

The studio has a new piano!

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Backstage Pass is supported by Glattly Pianoforte in Canandaigua

BACKSTAGE PASS BRINGS HOME A 2007 RADIO PROGRAMMING AND PROMOTIONS FINALIST AWARD FROM THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL.

Previous Guests:

Friday, December 19 at 1 p.m. - Musica Spei

Friday, November 13 at 1 p.m. - Arabesque Winds

Friday, October 16 at 1 p.m. - Ossia

Friday, September 25 at 1 p.m. - Ying Quartet

Friday, May 1 at 1 p.m. – Pascal Rogé

Friday, April 17 at 1 p.m. – Quartsemble

Tuesday, March 24 at 1 p.m. – Robert DiLutis

Friday, February 13 at 1 p.m. – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

Friday, January 16 at 1 p.m. – Michael Burritt

Friday, December 19 at 1 p.m. - Musica Spei Holiday

Friday, November 21 at 1 p.m. -- Andrew von Oeyen

Friday, October 31 at 1 p.m. – Carol Rodland, Viola Chair at the Eastman School of Music

Friday, September 12 -- The Emerald Brass Quintet

Friday, August 22 – Amelia Piano Trio

Monday, July 14 – Two Men and a Baby Grand

Friday, June 6 - Bonita Boyd and Nicholas Goluses

Friday, May 31 – RPO's Melissa Matson and Erik Behr

Friday, April 25 – The Cello Divas

Monday, March 10 and Friday, March 14 – Pianist Harvest Zhang and The Compass Quartet local From the Top guests

Friday, February 1 – The Erie Saxophone Quartet

Friday, January 18, 2008 - Christopher O'Riley, host of NPR's From the Top, will talk about his upcoming show in Nazareth College's Callahan Theater

Friday, December 14, 2007-- Gregory Kunde and Linda Wojciechowski

November 16, 2007– William Preucil and Juliana Athayde

October 26, 2007 - Pianist Jon Kimura Parker

September 28, 2007 - The Canadian Brass

August 17, 2007 - The Corigliano String Quartet

July 6, 2007 - Pianist Jon Nakamatsu

Backstage Pass, Harp 101June 29, 2007 - Eastman Harp Professor Kathleen Bride (watch the Harp 101 video)

May 25, 2007 - Members of the cast of Mercury Opera's upcoming production of Showboat

April 27, 2007 - Nicholas Goluses, founder of the guitar department at the Eastman School of Music

March 8, 2007 - Lutenist Deborah Fox and Friends

February 14, 2007 - The Ying Quartet.

January 9, 2007 - RPO Horn player Peter Kurau will be joined by soprano Pamela Kurau and RPO Pianist Joseph Werner to present the music of Franz and Richard Strauss.

December 1, 2006 - Cellist Steven Doane and pianist Barry Snyder

November 16, 2006 - RPO Marimba Ensemble

October 27, 2006 - The Geneseo Wind Quintet

September 29, 2006 - Kenneth Grant, Principal Clarinetist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and an associate professor of clarinet at the Eastman School of Music.

August 8, 2006 - RPO Brass perfoming music written for the Commission Project

July 14, 2006 - Richard Auldon Clark and members of the Mahattan Chamber Orchestra. Clark, a violist, is founder of the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, as well as Associate Professor of Music at Butler University, and conductor of the Butler Symphony Orchestra.

June 16, 2006 - Soloists for Glimmerglass Opera come in to discuss and sample the upcoming summer season.

May 19, 2006 - Violinist Tai Murray talks with Ms. Figueras about her experiences on the concert stage as an African-American musician and preview some of the music from her upcoming concert at the Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival on May 21.