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This week, a conversation with Joyce El-Khoury. the first year Academy of Vocal Arts resident artist is the winner of this year's Giargiari & Son, Bel Canto Competition; As the second and final...
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Jim Cotter speaks with pianist Rudolf Buchbinder. He performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Philadelphia Orchestra this week.Susan Lewis takes us to The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, a...
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Jim Cotter speaks with with Katy Friedland and Marla K. Shoemaker, authors of a new children's book A is for Art Museum. We'll also drop in on an art program for pre-schoolers at the Philadelphia...
View ArticleMaestro Christofer Macatsoris
Music Director of The Academy of Vocal Arts since 1977, Maestro Macatsoris began his conducting career in Italy at the Conservatory in Milan. He went on to study conducting privately with such famed...
View ArticlePreview of Academy of Vocal Arts Season
Join Jill Pasternak and her guests from the Academy of Vocal Arts for a sneak-peak into their 2009/2010 season of operatic performances. Guests include AVA Music Director and Maestro Christofer...
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David Patrick Stearns looks ahead to an Academy of Vocal Arts production of Verdi's Falstaff with the legendary Met Opera stage director Tito Capobianco at the helm.In the first of a year-long...
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David Patrick Stearns profiles conductor Christofer Macatsoris, the music director of the Academy of Vocal Arts. AVA is celebrating its 75th anniversary.Jim Cotter speaks with Grammy Award-winning...
View ArticleComposer Margaret Garwood
Philadelphia composer Margaret Garwood is Jill Pasternak's guest this week on Crossover. Her opera The Scarlet Letter receives its world premiere by the Academy of Vocal Arts on November 19th, 2010 at...
View ArticleAVA Resident Artist Michelle Johnson--Smartphone Public Art--Lenape...
David Patrick Stearns profiles soprano Michelle Johnson. The Metropolitan Opera 2011 National Council Audition Winner sings Donna Anna in the Academy of Vocal Arts' production of Mozart's Don Giovanni,...
View ArticleRising Opera Star William Davenport
Ahead of WRTI's broadcast of the Academy of Vocal Arts' 2012 Giargiari Bel Canto Competition on Sunday at 3 pm - with listeners having the opportunity to vote for their personal favorite at wrti.org....
View ArticleJoyce El-Khoury
This week, a conversation with Joyce El-Khoury. the first year Academy of Vocal Arts resident artist is the winner of this year's Giargiari & Son, Bel Canto Competition; As the second and final...
View ArticleRudolf Buchbinder--The Clay Studio--Nina Jablonski and The Evolution of Skin...
Jim Cotter speaks with pianist Rudolf Buchbinder. He performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Philadelphia Orchestra this week.Susan Lewis takes us to The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, a...
View ArticleA is for Art Museum--Arts & Quality of Life Research Center--Unusual Acts of...
Jim Cotter speaks with with Katy Friedland and Marla K. Shoemaker, authors of a new children's book A is for Art Museum. We'll also drop in on an art program for pre-schoolers at the Philadelphia...
View ArticleMaestro Christofer Macatsoris
Music Director of The Academy of Vocal Arts since 1977, Maestro Macatsoris began his conducting career in Italy at the Conservatory in Milan. He went on to study conducting privately with such famed...
View ArticlePreview of Academy of Vocal Arts Season
Join Jill Pasternak and her guests from the Academy of Vocal Arts for a sneak-peak into their 2009/2010 season of operatic performances. Guests include AVA Music Director and Maestro Christofer...
View ArticleTito Capobianco at AVA--The Mischianza--Pyle Show at DAM-Bringing TU Students...
David Patrick Stearns looks ahead to an Academy of Vocal Arts production of Verdi's Falstaff with the legendary Met Opera stage director Tito Capobianco at the helm.In the first of a year-long...
View ArticleAVA Music Dir. Christofer Macatsoris--Jazz Composer Bill...
David Patrick Stearns profiles conductor Christofer Macatsoris, the music director of the Academy of Vocal Arts. AVA is celebrating its 75th anniversary.Jim Cotter speaks with Grammy Award-winning...
View ArticleComposer Margaret Garwood
Philadelphia composer Margaret Garwood is Jill Pasternak's guest this week on Crossover. Her opera The Scarlet Letter receives its world premiere by the Academy of Vocal Arts on November 19th, 2010 at...
View ArticleAVA Resident Artist Michelle Johnson--Smartphone Public Art--Lenape...
David Patrick Stearns profiles soprano Michelle Johnson. The Metropolitan Opera 2011 National Council Audition Winner sings Donna Anna in the Academy of Vocal Arts' production of Mozart's Don Giovanni,...
View ArticleRising Opera Star William Davenport
Ahead of WRTI's broadcast of the Academy of Vocal Arts' 2012 Giargiari Bel Canto Competition on Sunday at 3 pm - with listeners having the opportunity to vote for their personal favorite at wrti.org....
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