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Festival Showcase August 8, 2017: Pianist Nicha Stapanukul and Violist Daniel Avshalomov

Pianist Nicha Stapanukul will be part of this Friday's Piano Project Liszt marathon. It's free, and starts at 8:30 pm at Harris Concert Hall. She asked for a selfie after the interview, and said some amazing things about Franz Liszt the womanizer as well as Liszt the pianist/composer.

Violist Daniel Avshalomov of the American String Quartet also will be performing this week, on Thursday August 10 at 8:00 at Harris Concert Hall for a full-length recital, and as part of a chamber music concert Saturday, August 12 at 4:30 at Harris Concert Hall. Chris talked with Daniel about his concert, as 

well as his memories of Aspen which go back to his childhood days in the late fifties!

Classical music reporter Chris Mohr has loved classical music since he was twelve. “And I owe it all to radio,” Chris explains. “I grew up in a farm town east of Cleveland. One day I turned on the local classical radio station. They were playing Vivaldi, and it was like the gates of heaven opened up to me!" Chris is also a composer, and is working on a 53-note-to-the-octave oratorio, "Melodies of the Shoreless Sea." This is his ninth summer working for Aspen Public Radio.