KBACH's Heart of the Arts

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) will be in performance Saturday, March 22 at Camelback Bible Church in Paradise Valley. The co-Artistic Director of CMS, pianist Wu Han, recently chatted with KBACH's Greg Kostraba about the concert and the music by Mozart and Schubert that will be on the program.

The MusicaNova Orchestra & Phoenix Chorale team up for performances Saturday & Sunday, March 8-9 at Camelback Bible Church in Paradise Valley. The orchestra's Music Director Warren Cohen and KBACH's Greg Kostraba recently discussed how the collaboration came about, and chat about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's cantata Tales of Old Japan, which will be on the concert alongside some of the Coronation Anthems by George Frederic Handel.

The Oracle Piano Society presents a recital by Navajo pianist/composer Connor Chee, Sunday afternoon, February 16th at 3 at the Oracle Center for the Arts in Oracle, Arizona. KBACH's Greg Kostraba recently chatted with Chee about his classical piano training, his compositions, which feature elements of traditional Navajo life and culture, and the music he will be performing on this concert.

The Phoenix Chamber Music Society presents a program curated by composer-in-residence and violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Saturday afternoon, February 8th at 2 at the Pasternack Salon in Phoenix. She recently chatted with KBACH's Greg Kostraba about the music and musicians featured in this "Composer's Choice" concert.

Boston-based cellist Rhonda Rider comes to Phoenix to perform at the MIM with the MusicNova Orchestra this Saturday at 6 P-M. She recently chatted with KBACH's Greg Kostraba about her interest in new music, her strong connection to Arizona, and the music of Reena Esmail and Victoria Yagling that she'll be performing.

Pianist Jeffrey Siegel continues his 46th season of Keyboard Conversations at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, January 14 at 7:30pm with a program called "Dances for the Ears!" He recently chatted with KBACH's Greg Kostraba about the program, which features dances from Bach and Beethoven to Granados, Albeniz & de Falla.

The East Coast Chamber Orchestra brings a program that blends old and new to Camelback Bible Church Saturday, January 11 at 7:30pm. Co-Executive Director of the ECCO, violist Jessica Thompson, recently chatted with KBACH's Greg Kostraba about what makes the ensemble different than a traditional orchestra, and this concert, which includes music of Dvorak and Bach, as well as works written for the ensemble by David Ludwig and Vijay Iyer.

The Oracle Piano Society presents its annual Chamber Music Festival January 2-5 in Oracle, Arizona. The society's founder and Artistic Director Stephen Cook recently chatted with KBACH's Greg Kostraba about the festival, which includes several student and faculty performances, as well as the other winter concerts in its Signature Series.

Former Music Director at the Church of the Ascension in Fountain Hills and ASU graduate Charles Szczepanek has a new album out on Heart Dance Records titled "The Solo Piano Project, Vol 1."

He chatted with KBACH's Greg Kostraba about his recent activities, and the album, which features Szczepanek's transcriptions and arrangements of well-loved, popular orchestral and operatic masterpieces.

Pianist Jeffrey Siegel begins his 46th season of Keyboard Conversations at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, December 10 at 7:30pm with a program called "A Few of Our Favorite Things!" He recently chatted with KBACH's Greg Kostraba about the program, which features well-loved, popular masterpieces of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, and Debussy.

Learn more about the concert, and purchase tickets here: scottsdaleperformingarts.org/keyboard-conversations-24-25/