Categories
Singers • Pianists • Violin • Viola • Cello • Clarinetists • Other Strings • Woodwinds • Ensembles • Composers, Conductors • Educators • Authors, Journalists, Producers
Singers
Lawrence Brownlee – Award-winning Tenor (Episode 34)
Joyce DiDonato – Operatic Soprano (Episode 55)
Anthony Roth Costanzo – Countertenor (Episode 43)
Melissa Errico – Singer/Actress/Author (Episode 80)
Susan Graham – Mezzo-soprano (Episode 46)
Nathan Gunn – Grammy-winning Baritone (Episode 20)
Isabel Leonard – Grammy-winning Mezzo-Soprano (Episode 17)
Jennifer O'Loughlin – Soprano (Episode 31)
Lisette Oropesa – Operatic Soprano (Episode 77)
Ailyn Pérez – Soprano (Episode 68)
Golda Schultz – Soprano (Episode 81)
Nadine Sierra – Soprano (Episode 57)
Deborah Voigt – Operatic Soprano (Episode 39)
Robert White – Tenor and Educator (Episode 50)
Pianists
Bruce Adolphe – Composer and Pianist (Episode 48)
David Aladashvili – Pianist and Recording artist (Episode 7)
Vladimir Ashkenazy – Pianist (Episode 62)
Emanuel Ax – Pianist and Educator (Episode 56)
Seymour Bernstein – Pianist, Author, and Educator (Episode 52)
Yefim Bronfman – Grammy-winning Pianist (Episode 40)
Jeremy Denk – Pianist (Episode 35)
Robert Durso – Pianist, Master Taubman Teacher, and Director of the Golandsky Institute at Princeton University (Episode 12)
Tanya Gabrielian – Activist and Award-winning pianist (Episode 8)
Gary Graffman – Pianist and Educator (Episode 53)
Marc-André Hamelin – Pianist (Episode 84)
Stephen Hough – Pianist, Composer, Poet, Author, and MacArthur Fellow (Episode 9)
Ilya Itin - Pianist and Educator (Episode 70)
Nicholas King – Pianist and Philanthropist (Episode 32)
Dmitri Levkovich – Pianist and Composer (Episode 45)
Jerome Lowenthal - Pianist and Educator (Episode 26)
Christina & Michelle Naughton – Pianists (Episode 37)
In Performance: Christina & Michelle Naughton (Episode 37+)
Francisco Núñez – Composer, Conductor, Pianist (Episode 73)
Christopher O’Riley – Pianist and Host of NPR’s “From the Top” (Episode 11)
Caroline Oltmanns – Pianist (Episode 42)
Paul Schenly – Pianist, distinguished teacher and founder of Pianofest in the Hamptons (Episode 6)
Peter Takács – Pianist and Distinguished Professor at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (Episode 13)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet – Pianist (Episode 63)
Daniil Trifonov – Pianist, winner of the Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky Competitions (Episode 10)
Pierre van der Westhuizen – Pianist and President of the Cleveland International Piano Competition (Episode 24)
Yuja Wang – Pianist and Deutsche Grammophon Recording Artist (Episode 14)
Brian Zeger – Pianist (Episode 59)
Violin
Rachel Barton Pine – Violinist (Episode 30)
Joshua Bell – Grammy-winning American Violinist (Episode 16)
Jennifer Koh – Violinist (Episode 44)
Anne Akiko Meyers – Violinist (Episode 25)
Anne-Sophie Mutter – Violinist (Episode 71)
Rachel Barton Pine – Violinist (Episode 30)
Filip Pogády – Violinist (Episode 72)
Viola
Roger Chase – Violist and Educator (Episode 18)
Cello
Zuill Bailey – Cellist (Episode 22)
Oliver Herbert – Cellist (Episode 79)
Steven Isserlis – Cellist and Author (Episode 36)
Merry Peckham – Cellist and Educator (Episode 27)
Joshua Roman – Cellist and TED Fellow (Episode 1)
Joshua Roman – Cellist (Episode 75)
Astrid Schween – Cellist (Episode 41)
Brian Thornton – Cellist (Episode 58)
Jan Vogler – Cellist (Episode 76)
Alisa Weilerstein – Cellist (Episode 49)
Clarinet
Jörg Widmann - Clarinetist and Composer (Episode 83)
Other Strings
Yolanda Kondonassis – Harpist, Educator (Episode 74)
Woodwinds
Franklin Cohen – Clarinetist and Educator (Episode 29)
Alex Klein – Oboist and Conductor (Episode 51)
Ensembles
Artemis Quartet (Episode 54)
Jupiter String Quartet (Episode 19)
In performance: The Jupiter String Quartet – "Death and the Maiden," 1st Movement (Episode 19+)
Christina & Michelle Naughton – Pianists (Episode 37)
In Performance: Christina & Michelle Naughton (Episode 37+)
Composers, Conductors
Bruce Adolphe – Composer and Pianist (Episode 48)
Vladimir Ashkenazy – Pianist and Conductor (Episode 62)
Matthew Aucoin – Composer/Conductor (Episode 21)
John Corigliano – Composer (Episode 60)
Manfred Honeck – Conductor (Episode 67)
Stephen Hough – pianist, composer, poet, author, and MacArthur Fellow (Episode 9)
Lowell Liebermann – Composer (Episode 38)
Susanna Mälkki – Conductor (Episode 61)
Gianandrea Noseda – Conductor (Episode 78)
Francisco Núñez – Composer, Conductor, Pianist (Episode 73)
Case Scaglione – Conductor and Solti Foundation Fellow (Episode 15)
Jeannette Sorrell – Conductor (Episode 64)
Educators
Emanuel Ax – Pianist and Educator (Episode 56)
Seymour Bernstein – Pianist, Author, and Educator (Episode 52)
Robert Durso – Pianist, Master Taubman Teacher, and Director of the Golandsky Institute at Princeton University (Episode 12)
Gary Graffman – Pianist and Educator (Episode 53)
Ilya Itin – Pianist and Educator (Episode 70)
Yolanda Kondonassis – Harpist, Educator (Episode 74)
Jerome Lowenthal – Pianist and Educator (Episode 26)
Tim Page – Author, Producer, and Educator (Episode 28)
Merry Peckham – Cellist and Educator (Episode 27)
Paul Schenly – pianist, distinguished teacher and founder of Pianofest in the Hamptons (Episode 6)
Kate Sheeran – Hornist/Educator (Episode 82)
David Stull – President and Tubist (Episode 33)
Peter Takács – Pianist and Distinguished Professor at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (Episode 13)
Brian Thornton – Cellist (Episode 58)
Robert White – Tenor and Educator (Episode 50)
Brian Zeger – Pianist (Episode 59)
Authors, Journalists, Producers
Mark Ainley – Author/Lecturer (Episode 23)
Seymour Bernstein – Pianist, Author, and Educator (Episode 52)
Jeremy Denk – Pianist (Episode 35)
Christopher O’Riley – Pianist and Host of NPR’s “From the Top” (Episode 11)
Tim Page – Author, Producer, and Educator (Episode 28)
Joseph Patrych – Grammy-nominated record producer (Episode 2)
Donald Rosenberg – Musician, Author, and Critic