Sound ExChange, a musicians collective that began at the Eastman School of Music, recently won a $100,000 grant for new and collaborative performances.

Our annual holiday show!

Interview with Chicago s Gaudete Brass.

!Voila! Violas stops by.

Gateways Music Festival

Lilac Piano Quartet

The International Society of Bassists visit.

Eastman Opera and Nazareth College mounted productions of Kurt Weill's "Street Scene" and "Threepenny Opera."

The Eastman Guitar Quartet.

Tony Caramia put together a program as part of the Women in Music Festival at the Eastman School of Music.

Percussionist Kristen Shiner McGuire.

The Ying Quartet welcomed a new violinist

Director Terrance Keach and Chorus Novus secretary Barbara Colucci talk about the group.

special guest Marina Piccinini

Ensemble.twenty.21 came together to play music

Violinist John Irrera and his brother, pianist Joseph, may have grown up

Harpist Bridget Kibbey

Paganini adored the combination of guitar and violin.

Rochester Songbook

Chamber group Gibbs & Main are embarking on EuphoNY 2012

Musical history books are filled with footnotes of composers famous in their day, then forgotten after death...

The Imani Winds blew into town to work with students at the Eastman School of Music.

Concentus Womens Choir

It's the biggest Backstage Pass we've ever had!

Ellen Koskoff and the Harley Community Gamelan came into Studio B...

Eastman School of Music professor Russell Miller has made a career as a collaborating pianist, backing up great artists like tenor Robert Swensen.

The Gateways Music Festival returns to Rochester to celebrate the accomplishments of African Americans in classical music.

Richard Auldon Clark and members of his Manhattan Chamber Orchestra

Pianists Irina Lupines and Lyudmila Lakisova attended a music conservatory for gifted children together in Belarus.

Mark Kellogg, principal trombone for the Rochester Philharmonic, along with RPO pianist Joe Werner, and jazz players Chris Azzara (piano) and Geoff Saunders (double bass), all came in..

Guitarists Evan Drummond, Michard Hardy, and Kenneth Meyer came up with an idea....

Three of Rochester's best vocalists all live under one roof!

They have no hall to call home. Rehearsal time is extremely limited.

A special holiday Backstage Pass, William Weinert, his 16-voice choir Voices, and harpist Kathleen Bride.

Baroque Violinist extraordinaire Elizabeth Wallfisch

The RPO Marimba Band

Ottawa-based harpist Caroline Leonardelli grew up in the south of France, where everyone in her family played the harp...

What happens when you put an entire musical family into one room to chat and play music together?

Double bassist James VanDemark and pianist Barry Snyder, both from the Eastman School of Music

The Arabesque Winds started as students the Eastman School of Music.

There's a new chamber choir in town: Resonanz, a sub-set of the Rochester Oratorio Society.

Meet the new-look Yings.

Ossia, the Eastman School of Music student-run ensemble

Backstage Pass with Pascal Rogé aired Friday, May 1 at 1 p.m. and repeated Sunday, May 3 at 2 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1.

Backstage Pass with Robert DiLutis aired Tuesday, March 24 at 1 p.m. and repeats Sunday, March 29 at 2 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1.

Backstage Pass with Los Angeles Guitar Quartet airs Friday, February 13 at 1 p.m. and repeats Sunday, February 15 at 2 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1.

Backstage Pass with Michael Burritt airs Friday, January 16 at 1 p.m. and repeats Sunday, January 18 at 2 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1.

Backstage Pass with Musica Spei Holiday airs Friday, December 19 at 1 p.m. and repeats Sunday, December 21 at 2 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1.

Backstage Pass with Andrew von Oeyen airs Friday, November 21 at 1 p.m., repeating Sunday, November 23 at 2 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1.

Backstage Pass, Friday, September 12 at 1 p.m on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1., join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes The Emerald Brass Quintet.

Backstage Pass, Friday, August 22 at 1 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1., join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes the Amelia Piano Trio.

Backstage Pass, Monday, July 14 at 1 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1., join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes The Cello Divas.

Backstage Pass, Friday, May 30 at 1 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1., join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes the RPO's Melissa Matson and Erik Behr.

Backstage Pass, Friday, June 6 at 1 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1., join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes Bonita Boyd and Nicholas Goluses.

Backstage Pass, Friday, April 25 at 1 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1., join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes The Cello Divas.

Backstage Pass, Monday, March 10 at 1 p.m. and reairs Friday, March 14 at 6 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3/HD 91.5-1., join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes Pianist Harvest Zhang and The Compass Quartet.

Backstage Pass, airing Friday, February 1 at 1 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3, join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes The Erie Saxophone Quartet

NPR's From the Top was just in town for a live taping at Nazareth College. The host, Christopher O'Riley, carved out some time from his jam-packed scheduled for a little one-on-one conversation with Julia Figueras about the show.

Backstage Pass, airing Friday, August 17th at 1 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3, join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes the Corigliano String Quartet

Backstage Pass, airing Friday, September 28th at 1 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3, join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes the Canadian Brass

Backstage Pass, airing Friday, July 6th at 1 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3, join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes pianist Jon Nakamatsu

Backstage Pass, airing Friday, June 29th at 1 p.m. on Classical 91.5/90.3, join host Julia Figueras as she welcomes harpist Kathleen Bride