Julie Freddino
Production Director, Sunday Baroque ProducerJulie Freddino is the host of Sunday Spotlight and producer of Sunday Baroque. She discovered public radio in college and was immediately hooked. Starting as a board operator, she worked her way up to production assistant, producer, senior producer, and in 2003, became WSHU’s production director.
In 2018, Julie produced an independent, 6-episode audio drama, Mermaids of Merrow’s Cove, which was nominated for an AudioVerse Award — Best Engineering of a New Dramatic Production.
When not moving sound around, Julie can be found at the pottery wheel throwing clay.
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Simone Dinnerstein talks about what makes Bach’s music so important, her ensemble Baroklyn, and her longstanding Bach Concert Series at Miller Theatre at Columbia University, which begins March 28, 2024. -
Morgan Sullivan came to singing later than many other professional singers do. Nevertheless she has achieved success as a freelance musician who has performed with numerous top tier ensembles, including Bach Collegium Japan, Folger Consort, and American Baroque Orchestra among many others. -
Frederick Ballentine is an American tenor whose awards include a Grammy for his recording of George Gershwin’s PORGY AND BESS. The opera star exudes a sense of ease, confidence, and fun when it comes to his career. -
Award-winning musician Shawn Okpebholo earned his degrees at the prestigious University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. But he credits his start in music to The Salvation Army church, where he received free music lessons as a child, and to his mother's tenacious support. -
From the time he was just a small child, Charles Wilson III – aka BLKBOK – showed extraordinary musical talent. The budding piano virtuoso's family nurtured his interests, which blossomed to include many genres of music: classical, hip-hop, rap, and much more. -
Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer and violinst. She says, “Being an artist is living a life of service,” and credits her many teachers and mentors – and her parents – for opening up worlds to her. She spoke with Suzanne Bona about her life as a musician – and how she expresses her creativity in a few of her non-musical passions, too! -
Taras Bulba is a novel by Nikolai Gogol. Leoš Janáček chose 3 episodes from Gogol’s story to portray in his rhapsody of the same name and it became one of the composer's most famous works. -
A child prodigy from a musical family, Lili Boulanger’s talent was apparent at a young age. She accompanied her older sister to classes at the Paris Conservatory before she was 5. Today on WSHU, we’ll hear her Nocturne arranged for harp and flute. -
We’ll enjoy the sun with Brahms’s idyllic Symphony No. 2, tonight on WSHU -
The ever-popular annual New Year’s Day Concert will be performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Christian Thielemann.
