.Thank you for watching. Please subscribe, hit that like button, and get notifications for new episodes! If you're new to Tuesday Conversation with Friends, it is an interview series featuring world-class musicians with their work and a glimpse into who they are as people. You can watch the video version of this interview on YouTube or listen to it on the go on Apple Podcast. (scroll down for links) Joining me here is Israeli concert pianist, composer, pedagogue, and bestselling author Rami...

Classical musicians CAN improvise. But why should classical musicians learn to improvise? 4-Time Grammy Award Winner Eugene Friesen shares with us his why and how he made the cello cool!  If you enjoy the content, please leave a comment, click on like, and subscribe to the channel get notified for future episodes!  Follow us on Instagram & Facebook for performances, famous musician quotes and podcast updates. (@all.around.classical)   Featuring Eugene Friesen, Cellist/Composer/Educator....

Continuing to celebrate the AAPI Heritage Month, joining me today for a new episode of Tuesday Conversation with Friends is violinist, Cory (Corin) Lee, not your regular violinist. Juilliard trained, founder of The Liberated Performer (an organization to work with performers to overcome performance and audition anxiety), and a member of the string quartet ETHEL which is acclaimed as “unfailingly vital” (The New York Times), “brilliant,” “downtown’s reigning string quartet” (The New Yorker),...

Will LaDuke is the Executive Producer/Host - ACTIVE CULTURE at Riverwest Radio 104.1 WXRW. ACTIVE CULTURE is a weekly half-hour program highlighting various aspects of local culture from the artists' perspective. From actors to authors, musicians to artists, we'll bring you the lowdown on what's new in Milwaukee and Chicago.  Will has had an extended and captivating career in and out of broadcasting. In this conversation, we learn about how he got into broadcasting, why he got out, and how...

Thank you for watching. Please subscribe, hit that like button, and get notifications for new episodes! If you're new to Tuesday Conversation with Friends, it is an interview series featuring world-class musicians with their work and a glimpse into who they are as people.  You can watch the video version of this interview on YouTube or listen to it on the go on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or Google Podcast.   I am excited to release this interview with Dr. Donald Brinegar, Choral Conductor,...

This episode was originally released on May 7th 2021 via Facebook and YouTube. May is the celebration of AAPI Heritage Month. We will introduce Mingmei, Yip: Best Selling Author with publications in multiple languages sold in 10 countries, Champion of Traditional Chinese Music (Qin), Buddhist Studies, and traditional art.  This is a true immigrant success story. In Hong Kong, Mingmei had an enviable life as a professor, published author, Buddhist studies scholar, and TV expert. Then as...

Thank you for listening. Please subscribe, hit the like button, and get notifications for the new episodes! If you're new to Tuesday Conversation with Friends, it is a conversation series featuring world-class musicians with their work, and who they are as people. It is like overhearing a very interesting chat two people are having at a coffee house! You can watch the video version of the interview on YouTube. Please see link in description.  Joining me here is award-winning American...

Hello, thank you for tuning in. Please subscribe and support the podcast. There are additional exclusive contents available. If you're interested, please DM me on Instagram @Ms.Shirley.Wang with your email address. To watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Fv3HqpFvZi8 Joining me here is a Singapore-Based, Italian-trained operatic baritone: Martin Ng. His repertoire covers Rossini, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Stravinsky, and many more. He has appeared in The Barber of Seville, La Boheme,...

Hello! Welcome to Tuesday Conversation with Friends. Joining me today is a very special guest, Zsolt Bognar! He is a pianist, author, and the host to the award winning film series “Living The Classical Life” which has over 2.3 million subscribers on YouTube. This is what looks like to be a musician in the 21st century.  We go deep into piano concert history in the US through the legends: Horowitz, Rachmaninoff, Josef Hoffmann, Glenn Gould, etc.. Discussing repertoire by Schubert, Schumann,...

Hello! Welcome to Tuesday Conversation with Friends. Joining me today is a very special guest, Zsolt Bognar! He is a pianist, author, and the host for the award winning film series “Living The Classical Life” which has over 2.3 million subscribers on YouTube. This is what looks like to be a musician in the 21st century. We go deep into piano concert history in the US through the legends: Horowitz, Rachmaninoff, Josef Hoffmann, Glenn Gould, etc.. Discussing repertoire by Schubert, Schumann,...

Here's another episode of Conversation with Friends with a different direction.    You can watch the video version of the same episode at https://youtu.be/UYqDm-9-vAU As part of the celebration for AAPI Heritage Month, we have Calvin & Theresa Curameng from College Park Yoga, located in College Park, FL, a community just outside of Downtown Orlando.    20 years ago, it was not an easy decision for an Asian American person to embrace the life of an Urban Yogi. We went  into...

Welcome to the newest episode of Tuesday Conversation with Friends. Today I have the privilege to have International Concert Pianist Laurent Boukobza with me.   In today's conversation, we open with his performance of Chopin's Etude in C# Minor (Op. 10 #4).  Today's offering is a chat about the making of a concert pianist. How he started as a precocious little boy in Paris, France, where's he's been, who he is today and his philosophy on teaching and the lifelong work of a concert pianist....