Wrcj In-studio Guests

The Gryphon Trio performs the complete Beethoven Piano Trios as part of Chamber Music Society of Detroit concerts this weekend. WRCJ’s Peter Whorf speaks with Gryphon members Roman Borys (cello) and Jamie Parker (piano) about Friday’s Grosse Pointe War Memorial concert, Saturday’s Canton performance and Sunday’s Oakland University presentation. Pictured: Gryphon Trio’s Roman Borys (cello), Annalee Patipatanakoon (violin), Jamie Parker (piano)

Chicago violinist Rachel Barton Pine now has more than three dozen recordings in her catalog. Pine specializes in thematic collections of violin works not typically brought to the recording studio. Dvorak and Khachaturian are the subjects of her newest release as she chats with WRCJ’s Peter Whorf.

Following last year’s Vivaldi Four Seasons collaboration with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, violinist, conductor and counter tenor Dmitri Sinkovsky returns this weekend to the William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series in Plymouth, Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe. Like fellow Russian artists Alexander Borodin and Peter Tchaikovsky, Moscow native Sinkovsky’s family is rooted in the precise world of engineering. Dmitri starts his conversation with WRCJ’s Peter Whorf by exploring ways that engineering an musical worlds intersect…

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After last Wednesday’s DSO rehearsal, guest conductor Juanjo Mena came to the WRCJ studios to talk about this weekend’s program of Mendelssohn, Haydn and Schubert. Mena tells WRCJ’s Peter Whorf how he’d enjoy a daily dose of Haydn…

The International Symphony Orchestra is a two household ensemble with bases in Pt. Huron, MI and Sarnia, ON. WRCJ’s Peter Whorf speaks with ISO Music Director Douglas Bianchi and Executive Director Anthony Wing about the orchestra’s upcoming concert and future plans…

Cellist Camille Thomas and pianist Roman Rabinovich are a busy pair on the move. They first performed together this past summer at Michigan’s Interlochen Center. Tuesday night, Thomas and Rabinovich played a concert of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Frank and Messiaen for the Cranbrook Guild. Thursday, they join forces in Ft. Worth, Texas at the acclaimed Cliburn Concerts. The duo heads to Houston on Friday. Ms. Thomas jets off to Salzburg, Austria later in the month to perform a work written for her – Fazil Say’s Cello Concerto. Thomas and Rabinovich stopped by WRCJ’s studios earlier this week to talk about their recent and future performances, recordings and more…

Cellist Camille Thomas and pianist Roman Rabinovich are a busy pair on the move. They first performed together this past summer at Michigan’s Interlochen Center. Tuesday night, Thomas and Rabinovich played a concert of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Frank and Messiaen for the Cranbrook Guild. Thursday, they join forces in Ft. Worth, Texas at the acclaimed Cliburn Concerts. The duo heads to Houston on Friday. Ms. Thomas jets off to Salzburg, Austria later in the month to perform a work written for her – Fazil Say’s Cello Concerto. Thomas and Rabinovich stopped by WRCJ’s studios earlier this week to talk about their recent and future performances, recordings and more…

Bach To Bach is the newest release – and the first in two decades – from cellist Ofra Harnoy. The Toronto-based virtuoso took the classical music world by storm in the 1980s and 90s, but has been sidelined by injury for the past few years. Harnoy has recently bounced back to perform, tour and take to the recording studio. WRCJ’s Peter Whorf recently spoke with Ofra Harnoy about her Analekta label recording of music by Bach, Telemann, Corelli and other Baroque masters.

This Saturday, November 23rd, 7:00pm at Bloomfield Hills’ St. Regis Church, Andrew Neer leads the Oakland Choral Society and Orchestra Sono in three masterworks by Bach and Vivaldi. WRCJ’s Peter Whorf invited Neer to our studios this week to talk about the program, and Andrew’s early memories of musicals, choral performance…and Leonard Bernstein…

Stephen Powell performs the title role in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, opening Saturday in the Michigan Opera Theatre production at the Detroit Opera House. WRCJ’s Peter Whorf speaks with Powell about his first encounters with the “Demon Barber of Fleet Street”…

DSO Music Director Laureate Leonard Slatkin leads the ensemble this weekend in works by Hector Berlioz, Mohammed Fairouz and Modest Mussorgsky/Maurice Ravel. WRCJ’s Peter Whorf speaks with Maestro Slatkin at Detroit’s Orchestra Hall about Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition…and DSO concerts later this season celebrating Slatkin’s 75th birthday…

This week at Orchestra Hall, Dalia Stasevska leads the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in Julia Wolfe’s “Fountain of Youth”, Peter Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and the First Symphony by Jean Sibelius. Stasevska and WRCJ’s Peter Whorf talked about the program in our studios earlier this week. Upon first hearing Tchaikovsky’s concerto, colleague and pianist Nikolai Rubinstein famously rejected the masterwork. Dalia Stasevska wonders why…