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120: Davey Yarborough
Nikhil Hogan Show - March 19, 2021 02:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDavey Yarborough is a native of The District of Columbia who has been performing, and teaching for over 30 years. He is a flautist and saxophonist as well as a distinguished composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher. He studied saxophone with the great Sonny Stitt for 2 years, and is the co-...
119: Noam Sivan
Nikhil Hogan Show - March 08, 2021 04:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is Pianist, Improviser, and Composer, Professor Noam Sivan! He is Professor of Piano Improvisation at the HMDK Stuttgart, and we will talk about his remarkable journey, his method to his improvisational craft, his new exciting Master’s degree programme in classical piano improvisa...
118: Gaetano Stella
Nikhil Hogan Show - March 01, 2021 04:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is Music Scholar and Pianist, Professor Gaetano Stella! An expert on the subject of partimento, particularly partimento in the 19th century. We talk about the partimento tradition in the 19th century and his methods for teaching partimento in the classroom today.
117: Matteo Messori
Nikhil Hogan Show - February 22, 2021 04:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWhat an honor to speak with my guest today, Harpsichordist, Organist, Keyboardist, Conductor, Composer and Improviser, Matteo Messori! He is the founder of the Cappella Augustana Ensemble and His latest recording is the complete harpsichord and organ works by Johann Kaspar Kerll, a new 3CD Box. ...
116: Nicola Canzano
Nikhil Hogan Show - February 17, 2021 02:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’m so pleased to introduce my guest today, composer, improviser, harpsichordist, and organist Nicola Canzano! He is the composer of his “First Book of Partimenti: Preludes, Fugues, Rondeaus, and Puzzles, Twenty Four in total through all key signatures”. He is also the founder of the upcoming NE...
115: Bill Conti
Nikhil Hogan Show - January 31, 2021 16:39 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI am very thrilled to speak with my guest today, Academy and Emmy Award winning Film Composer and Conductor, Bill Conti! He is best known for his film scores including Rocky, The Karate Kid, For Your Eyes Only, Dynasty and the Right Stuff which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score...
115: Job IJzerman
Nikhil Hogan Show - January 25, 2021 06:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is Professor Job IJzerman! He teaches at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He is known for his popular book, “Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento” Published by Oxford University Press in 2018. 0:38 Background 1:50 Did you improvise or compose growing up? 2:12 Did you have any ex...
113: Thomas Christensen
Nikhil Hogan Show - January 18, 2021 01:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI am so honored to be speaking to a great guest today, Professor Thomas Christensen. Professor Christensen is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Music and Humanities at the University of Chicago. His scholarly research focuses on the history of music theory and his most recent book is “Tonality ...
112: Giorgio Sanguinetti
Nikhil Hogan Show - December 31, 2020 02:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIt’s a huge honor to have the great Professor Giorgio Sanguinetti return to the program for his 2nd appearance. He is the author of the award-winning book “The Art of Partimento” which was published in 2012 which won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society of Music Theory and today we will talk...
111: L. Poundie Burstein
Nikhil Hogan Show - December 18, 2020 11:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI am extremely thrilled to introduce my guest today, Professor of Music L. Poundie Burstein. He is a Professor at Hunter College College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and he is here today to talk to me about his excellent new book which has been getting rave reviews,...
110: Bruce Broughton
Nikhil Hogan Show - December 03, 2020 07:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’m extremely pleased to introduce my guest today, Emmy Award Winning TV and Film Composer, Bruce Broughton. He is the composer for films such as Silverado, Tombstone, The Rescuers Down Under, and written memorable TV themes including The Orville, JAG, Spielberg’s Tiny Toon adventures and Dinosa...
109: Enrico Baiano
Nikhil Hogan Show - November 23, 2020 02:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is Harpsichordist and Fortepianist Professor Enrico Baiano. An award-winning international performer, Baiano has extensively recorded works by JS Bach, Johann Jakob Froberger, and Domenico Scarlatti to name a few. He has published a method for the Harpsichord in 2010 and with Ma...
108: Cyprien Katsaris
Nikhil Hogan Show - November 01, 2020 16:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is the famed virtuoso concert pianist and composer, Cyprien Katsaris. One of the most renowned concert pianists of both the 20th and 21st centuries, Katsaris has performed with the world’s greatest orchestras and recorded extensively over his storied career. We talk about his tran...
107: Emily Miller
Nikhil Hogan Show - October 27, 2020 08:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’m so pleased to introduce my guest today, musician, vocalist and bandleader Emily Miller. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, She is the Creative Director for Boston Common Entertainment and Her debut album, "Stronger Every Day" was released in August 2020. 0:37 What are your earliest mu...
106: Philipp Teriete
Nikhil Hogan Show - October 19, 2020 04:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIt’s my pleasure to introduce my guest today, pianist, composer, educator, and researcher, Philipp Teriete. Today we will explore the improvisation and partimento in the 19th century, the great French music teacher Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman, Frederic Chopin's music education, the influ...
105: Richie Hart
Nikhil Hogan Show - October 12, 2020 02:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is one of the masters of jazz guitar and jazz education, Richie Hart. He has performed with some of the biggest names in jazz including Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Don Patterson, Jack McDuff, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, Houston Person, Etta Jones, just to name a fe...
104: Rami Bar-Niv
Nikhil Hogan Show - September 28, 2020 03:12 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is Concert Pianist, Composer, and Music Educator Rami Bar-Niv. Rami Bar-Niv made history by being the first, and so far the only, Israeli artist to perform in Egypt following the Begin/Sadat Peace Treaty. Praised as “Effective and Flamboyant” by the New York Times and “An Original...
103: Tommy Emmanuel
Nikhil Hogan Show - September 16, 2020 19:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsA personal hero of mine is on the show today: 2-time Grammy nominee, Guitar Virtuoso, Tommy Emmanuel CGP (Certified Guitar Player)! His latest album is 2020’s The Best of Tommysongs, a double CD that features some of Tommy’s best original works with 5 brand new songs. 1:03 Nikhil’s personal mu...
102: Peter Schubert
Nikhil Hogan Show - August 05, 2020 17:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is Professor Peter Schubert. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University and is currently an Associate Professor at the McGill University Faculty of Music. He is the author of the textbook, “Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance Style” (Oxford University Press, 1999). and wi...
101: David Mesquita
Nikhil Hogan Show - July 27, 2020 07:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy Guest today is Professor David Mesquita, he teaches ear training, sightsinging, Historical satzlehre Renaissance through to the Romantic at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. His research focuses on Spanish Music and music theory, as well as improvised counterpoint. 0:30 What is your backgrou...
100: Derek Remeš
Nikhil Hogan Show - July 20, 2020 04:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is Music Theorist, Organist and Composer, Derek Remeš. He is known for his research into the pedagogy behind Johann Sebastian’s Bach method of composition and improvisation. He also is the admin for Facebook group that he started,”Composition and Improvisation in J.S. Bach’s Germa...
99: Rosa Cafiero
Nikhil Hogan Show - July 13, 2020 06:13 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWhat a great thrill to be joined by a very special guest, Professor Rosa Cafiero of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the department of History, Archaeology and Art History. She is here to talk about her latest book La didattica del partimento (a collection of nine essays, revisited and ...
98: Mark Ferraguto
Nikhil Hogan Show - July 06, 2020 00:49 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is Professor Mark Ferraguto, he is an Associate Professor of Musicology at Penn State University. He will talk to us about his very interesting book “Beethoven 1806”, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. 0:30 Can you describe your musical background? 1:36 Wha...
97: Ludwig Holtmeier
Nikhil Hogan Show - June 29, 2020 06:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is the great Professor Ludwig Holtmeier, who is a music theorist, musicologist, pianist and the president of the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg! ----- 0:23 What’s your musical background? 3:37 Did you have a typical classical training or did you ever improvise as a young music...
96: Elam Rotem
Nikhil Hogan Show - June 22, 2020 09:45 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’m so pleased to introduce my guest today, a real expert on early music, Harpsichordist, composer and singer, Dr. Elam Rotem. In 2014, Rotem established the award winning resources website Early Music Sources. In 2016, he finished his PhD thesis with distinction ("Early Basso Continuo Practic...
95: John Mortensen
Nikhil Hogan Show - June 14, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is Professor John Mortensen, a leading performer, scholar and teacher in classical or historic improvisation, Steinway Artist, Fulbright Scholar, and is a professor of Music at Cedarville University. His new book is “The Pianist’s guide to Historic Improvisation”, published by O...
94: Tibor Szász
Nikhil Hogan Show - June 08, 2020 08:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsSo privileged to introduced my guest today one of the greats, pianist, musicologist and educator Professor Tibor Szasz. He has given over 1000 solo, concerto, and chamber music performances all over the world. His recordings of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Bartók have b...
93: Daniel Spreadbury
Nikhil Hogan Show - June 03, 2020 16:15 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe’re joined today by a great guest, Dorico Product Marketing Manager Daniel Spreadbury, to talk about the new release of Dorico, version 3.5 and the new Figured Bass feature. ------- 0:22 The new feature: figured bass in Dorico 3.5 1:05 How is Dorico figured bass different in implementatio...
92: Nicoleta Paraschivescu
Nikhil Hogan Show - June 01, 2020 05:55 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’m thrilled to introduce my guest today, Harpischordist and Organist Professor Nicoleta Paraschivescu! She teaches the organ at the Academy of Music in Basel (AMS) and is organist at the church of St. Theodor in Basel. In 2015 she received her PhD from the University of Leiden for her doctor...
91: Peter Pullman
Nikhil Hogan Show - May 25, 2020 01:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy guest today is Peter Pullman, he is the author of “Wail: The Life of Bud Powell”. Receiving a Grammy nomination in 1994 for Best Album Notes on the album “The Complete Bud Powell On Verve” led Pullman to begin work on the biographical project. A truly exhaustive work, Pullman conducted 300 fo...
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