Chris Mohr
Classical Music HostClassical 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 when I was twelve, 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 12th summer working for Aspen Public Radio.
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Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and mezzo soprano Joyce diDonato actually share some repertoire, as both sing many of the same Handel arias. When Joyce suffered a minor injury recently, Costanzo was in town rehearsing Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream.(at the Wheeler July 20 and 22). He and pianist Patrick Summers agreed to put on a recital to replace Joyce's, even though both are incredibly busy with their many other performing and teaching obligations. He talks with APR classical host Chris Mohr about his recital. -
APR classical host sat down with AMFS Music Director Robert Spano to talk about the 200 concerts coming up this summer, his Conducting Academy and the orchestra they have just for them to hone their craft (performing every Wednesday), and the composition students he and Chris Theofanidis work with and inspire. -
Superstar soprano Renee Fleming is back in Aspen for her fifth year co-directing with Houston Grand Opera director Patrick Summer the Artists of Aspen Opera Theatre and Vocal Arts Program, with internationally talented young opera singers. Renee also talks abouyt her debut at the recent Telluride Bluegrass Festival with Bela Fleck, and Patrick talks about his plans now that he has stepped down from HGO. -
On July 5, Alan Fletcher sat down with APR classical host Chris Mohr to preview the summer season, helping to make sense of a music schedule that features over 200 concerts in eight weeks! He also talks about his pending retirement from the Music Festival after 21 years at the helm. -
APR's Chris Mohr and Aspen Music Festival CEO and President Alan Fletcher caught up at the end of the 2025 season to share some of their favorite memories -- and give APR listeners a peek into the 2026 season! -
APR's Chris Mohr talked with the pianist who performed in Disney's Fantasia 2000 and who just brought the AMFS 2025 season to a triumphant close. -
Aspen Music Festival and School Music Director Robert Spano conducts the final massive concert of the 2025 summer season with Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and Holst's The Planets. APR's Chris Mohr caught up with him to talk about the young conductors, the season, and much more. -
When Scott Dunn got performance anxiety, he quit music and became an eye surgeon, but music called him back. He laughed when I told him that if things go wrong in a concert, you hit a wrong note, but in the operating room, your patient could go blind! -
Renee Fleming and Patrick Summers run the opera and vocal programs at the Aspen Music Festival and School. They talked with APR's Chris Mohr about Fleming's successful directorial debut with Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and much more. -
You may have seen Matthew Polenzani singing in the live Met broadcasts; he's now in Aspen preparing to sing with our top opera stars of tomorrow in Puccini's La Boheme, the opera that inspired the Broadway musical Rent. He talks with APR's Chris Mohr ahead of the August 19 performance. Bring your Kleenex!
