Dress Rehearsal

Aug 08 2023

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Dress Rehearsal is a Classical music program that airs every Friday morning at 8am PST and every Sunday afternoon at 5pm PST on 107.3 KBFG in Seattle. It is hosted by Italian Pianist and Conductor Lorenzo Marasso. The podcast portrays a living or past composer or performer, offers live interviews to up and coming as well as established artists in the field of composition and musical performance as well as offer great listening experiences of music that may not find its way through the mainstream media.

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#70 - Interview with Bulgarian Pianist Ivo Varbanov

Aug 08 2023 60 mins

My guest on the 70th episode of Dress Rehearsal is Bulgarian pianist Ivo Varbanov, who is a leading figure of Bulgarian music and culture abroad. After a forced hiatus from performing between 2009 to 2012 due to leukaemia he has returned to the stage with impressive performances at the Royal Festival Hall, King’s Place, Cadogan Hall, and the Bulgaria Concert Hall. He is a recipie

#69 - Interview with pianist Eleonor Bindman

Jul 17 2023 60 mins

My guest on the 69th episode of "Dress Rehearsal", is New York-based pianist Eleonor Bindman, who is also an educator and a recording artist. Originally from Riga, Latvia, Ms. Bindman is known worldwide for her continued passion with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and for her dedication in creating “transcriptions” of Bach’s orchestral music for either piano sol

#68 - Interview with Pianist Danny Holt

Jul 02 2023 60 mins

My guest on the 68th episode of "Dress Rehearsal" is Pianist Danny Holt, who has been called “phenomenal” by the late music critic Alan Rich and hailed as one of the “local heroes” of the Los Angeles music scene, pianist Danny Holt brings his boundless energy and wit to unique interpretations of new music, 20th-century music, and obscure, unusual, and neglected re

#67 - Interview with Korean Pianist Yerin Kim

Jun 13 2023 60 mins

My guest on the 67th Episode of "Dress Rehearsal", is Pianist Yerin Kim, who has been praised by the International Piano Magazine as a “pianist of beautiful finesse and golden tone” and “powerful and engaging, poetic and expressive with some truly original interpretive insights, all performed with a great technique” by Phoenix Classical. Dr. Yerin Kim is a recital

#66 - Happy Birthday Johann Sebastian Bach

Jun 04 2023 60 mins

In this episode of Dress Rehearsal we listen to some of Bach's music rendered through a less orthodox instrument, the Moog synthesizer. From the famous "Switched on Bach", a great album of the eighties, during the hour also featuring "The Art of Moog", a UK-based band that uses the Moog instrument to perform early music.

#65 - Interview with British Violist Annette Isserlis

Mar 18 2023 120 mins

My guest on the 65th episode of "Dress Rehearsal" is British Violist, Educator and Record Producer, Annette Isserlis, who is a founder member of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestra Revolutionnaire et Romantique as well as a member of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, The London Classical Players and Andrew Parrot’s Taverner Players, whe

#64 - Interview with Italian Fortepianist Gian Maria Bonino

Feb 25 2023 60 mins

My guest on the 64th episode of "Dress Rehearsal" is Italian pianist, fortepianist and harpsichordist, Gian Maria Bonino, who graduated in piano performance at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan with Prof. Lydia Arcuri and at the Lucerne Conservatory with Maestro Myeczislaw Horszowski. He also graduated in harpsichord at the Conservatory of Genova in Italy with Prof. Alda Bel

#63 - Sir Andras Schiff revisits Brahms Piano Concerto #1 on an historical instrument

Feb 19 2023 60 mins

Sir András Schiff in conversation about the Piano Concertos of Johannes Brahms performed on a historical piano with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. To fully bring out the characteristics of Brahms’s music Schiff’s choice of instrument is a Blüthner piano built in Leipzig around 1859, the year in which the D minor concerto was premiered. The historically informed Or

#62 - Interview with Violinist Valeria Zorina

Jan 22 2023 60 mins

My guest on the 62nd episode of "Dress Rehearsal" is violinist Valeria Zorina, who is an award winning performer and educator currently living Madrid, Spain. Ms. Zorina recently released a CD dedicated to the "scordatura" in violin repertoire through the centuries. The "scordatura" is defined by the Harvard Dictionary of Music, as “abnormal tuning of a stringed instrument i

#61 - Interview with Italian Harpsichordist Enrico Baiano

Dec 13 2022 60 mins

My guest on the 61st episode of "Dress Rehearsal" is Italian harpsichordist, clavichordist and fortepianist, Enrico Baiano. Maestro Baiano is considered one of the most complete and interesting interpreters on the ancient music scene. In his interpretative approach, historical-stylistic rigor, expressive freedom and great virtuosity are wisely combined. The French music r