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 11th summer working for Aspen Public Radio.
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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! -
Enrique Mazzola was only seven years old when he sang in La Boheme as part of the children's chorus at La Scala in Milan. He thought the theatrical candy vendors were really there to give him candy! Now he's in Aspen preparing to conduct Puccini's most beloved opera August 19 at the Klein Music Tent. He dropped by APR to chat with Chris Mohr about the upcoming production, and to ask if he could please take an Aspen Public Radio coffee cup home with him! -
Grammy-winning Violinist and composer Jessie Montgomery is a composer-in-residence this summer at the Aspen Music Festival and School. In addition to her recent performance of Hymn for Everyone and working with the composition students, Jessie has been granted some extra time to drink in the beauty of Aspen while composing her next piece. She was recently awarded Composer of the Year by Performance Today and Musical America. She recently talked about her music, both here and around the world, with APR's Chris Mohr -
Nico tells APR's Chris Mohr he is taking a break from composing while up here in Aspen, creating music for only two or three hours a day instead of the usual 8 hours back at home! -
Three time Grammy Award winning guitarist Sharon Isbin returns to Aspen for her immensely popular annual concert August 13 at Harris Hall, showcasing tunes from her new CD Romantico. She's joined by conductor Elizabeth Schulze and AMFS percussionist Jonathan Haas for a performance of the lushly lyrical and rhythmically joyous Miami Concerto. Last week, she and Elizabeth dropped by the Aspen Public Radio studio to chat about her recent guitar explorations.
