Jeff Rehbach, the director of the Vermont Choral Union, speaks with VPR's Joe Goetz about their upcoming performance at St. Michael's College in Colchester on Sunday. Listen Thursday at  3:00pm.

Walter Parker speaks with Vermont Youth Orchestra's Composer-in-Residence, Robert Paterson. Audio is now posted.

VPR's Walter Parker speaks with Richard Tognetti, Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.  The ACO comes to the Hopkins Center in Hanover this Wednesday. Audio is now posted online.

Walter Parker talks with VPR Classical host, Joe Goetz, about his Vermont performing debut playing piano in Dvorak's Dumky Trio with the Burlington Ensemble this Saturday.

Walter Parker speaks with the pianist about his recital this Friday. Audio is now posted online. Photo: Dario Acosta

VPR's  Walter Parker speaks with Hugh Keelan, conductor of the Windham Orchestra. Audio is now posted online.  

VPR's Walter Parker speaks with the Academy Award-winning director of documentaries on classical music. Audio is now posted online.

We speak to Thom Daniel, youngest son of Margaret Truman Daniel, about his mother's piano, donated to the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association. Audio is now posted online.

Walter Parker speaks with cellist Matt Haimovitz.  Friday, March 3rd, he brings his Bach and Beyond program to the UVM Lane Series.  

Walter Parker's guest is the new Executive Director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association. Audio is now posted online.

The violinist performs with the Burlington Chamber Orchestra this weekend. Audio is now posted online.

The Burlington Choral Society begins its 35th Anniversary Season this weekend with a performance Saturday night at Ira Allen Chapel.  I spoke with David Neiweem and Patricia Julien, who both composed works for the occasion.

This weekend, Burlington Ensemble presents its "Giving Bach" concert at College Street Congregational Church.  I spoke with co-artistic directors Michael Dabroski and Sofia Hirsch about the program and the organization's mission.

I speak with the Vermont composer about his new piece.

We speak with Vermont composer Dennis Bathory-Kitsz about his monodrama, premiering this weekend.

This Friday evening, the Brentano String Quartet performs a fascinating program at Darmouth College, in which contemporary composers wrote companion pieces to unfinished "fragments" of pieces by classical composers.  I spoke with violinist Mark Steinberg of the Brentano quartet about the program, and we'll hear that conversation this afternoon.

Trinity Wall Street commissioned Philadelphia composer Robert Moran to write a Requiem to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The Church miraculously survived the attacks that day despite its close proximity to ground zero. We'll hear it and talk with him about his new work.

Bassoonist Rachael Elliott and pianist Cynthia Huard stop by the VPR Performance Studio to preview their concerts on September 2-4 in St. Johnsbury, Burlington, and Hanover.  The concerts are in celebration of the release of Rachael's new recording, "Polka the Elk," which features new and experimental music for the bassoon.

The 15th annual used instrument sale is happening tomorrow in Montpelier, with all proceeds benefiting the CVCM  music scholarship fund. This morning I'll talk with one of the organizers and let you know where you can drop off instruments for the sale.

Violinist Soovin Kim, Artistic Director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, stops by for a chat.  Listen at 11:00am.