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 ninth summer working for Aspen Public Radio.
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Chris Mohr talks with opera director Peter Sellars during this interview. Sellars brought Matthew Aucoin's new opera "Music for New Bodies" to Aspen on July 1. He takes a deep dive into the meaning of an opera that weaves together subjects as diverse as cancer and the destruction of the ocean floor. -
Alan Fletcher, president and CEO of the Aspen Music Festival and School, reviews this summer's festival and talks about the theme of next summer’s event. -
Roderick Cox is one of the up-and-coming conductors this summer at the Aspen Music Festival and School. He is also one of relatively few conductors of color to be a conductor for a major orchestra. -
Violinist Robert McDuffie and pianist Derek Wang will give a recital at Harris Hall on Wednesday evening. -
Patrick Chamberlain, the newly appointed vice president for artistic administration for the Aspen Music Festival and School, stands at the heart of the effort to create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive festival.
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Melissa White will be welcoming an enthusiastic audience when she appears Thursday, August 11 at the Aspen Music Festival to perform Vivaldi’s 'The Four Seasons' and a violin concerto by JS Bach. -
Knowing each other well and spending a lot of time rehearsing have helped Miles and Ziggy in their give and take while performing together. The Johnstons will perform various recitals in Aspen throughout this month. -
The Aspen Music Festival and School is playing host to musicians from more than 40 countries this summer, including people from Ukraine and its neighboring countries. And musicians continue to perform even as bombs are falling on their families and houses back home. What place does music have in a time like this? -
For some years now, Alan Fletcher, executive director of the Aspen Music Festival and School, has been taking the question of diversity quite seriously. More and more festival events feature women composers as well as composers and performers of color. Here is the story of one guitarist who has a long history of working with musicians from around the planet. -
Pianist Illia Ovcharenko arrived at the Aspen Music Festival and School to suddenly find that he was assigned to perform a tough piano sonata by fellow Ukrainian Sergei Prokofiev. He agreed to take on the assignment.
