Melony Dodson
Morning Concert Host/ProducerMelony calls the beautiful mountains of Boone, N.C., home, although she was born near Greensboro, N.C. There’s just something about those Blue Ridge Mountains that got in her blood and never left after she moved there to attend Appalachian State University (ASU). While at ASU, she majored in piano performance and music therapy and began to cultivate a love for accompanying and for collaborating with other musicians. This soon led her to earn a master’s degree in collaborative piano at the University of Tennessee, which she attended from 2006-2008.
While a graduate student, she worked at WUOT as a student announcer, hosting Saturday afternoons and evenings. Melony rapidly developed another passion: that of being a radio personality/host. Soon after graduating, she began hosting weekend mornings, including the Early Morning Concert, and produced the highly popular Top 60 for 60, a special series commemorating WUOT’s 60th anniversary. Two years later, she was honored to become the new host of the Morning Concert, of which she is currently the host and producer. Melony is also a choral accompanist for the UT School of Music’s Concert Choir and the Men’s Chorale. In her spare time, Melony loves to music-direct musicals. She is secretly (or perhaps not so secretly!) obsessed with the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown. She also loves to travel, cook, hike and explore all of the cultural (and food!) attractions Knoxville has to offer.
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Melony Dodson talks with Maestro Aram Demirjian and composer, Sarah Gibson, about the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's upcoming Masterworks concert. The KSO will perform the TN premiere of Gibson's composition to make this mountain taller.
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Melony Dodson talks with Maestro Regulo Stabilito about the Oak Ridge Symphony's performance of "Bach & Friends" featuring music for brass, percussion, and organ.
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Melony Dodson talks with conductor, Joseph Mechavich and baritone, Malcolm MacKenzie about Knoxville Opera's upcoming production of Verdi's La Traviata. MacKenzie will perform the role of Giorgio Germont
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Melony Dodson talks with Maestros Aram Demirjian and James Fellenbaum about the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's January Masterworks Concert, which celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the KSO Youth Orchestra.
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Melony Dodson talks with Maestro James Fellenbaum and KSO Principal Flute, Devan Jaquez, about the upcoming Chamber Classics concert, featuring Jaquez as the soloist. Also a substitute Classical host at WUOT, Devan will perform the Flute Concerto No.1 by Malcolm Arnold.
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Melony Dodson talks with Kathryn Frady, soprano and Executive Artistic Director of Marble City Opera, about the one-act holiday opera based on a Ukrainian legend, "The Christmas Spider"
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Melony Dodson talks with Maestro Aram Demirjian about holiday traditions and Handel's Messiah. The Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra and Choral Society perform the Christmas portion on Sunday, November 26th at 2:30pm in the Tennessee Theatre.
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Learn more about pianist, Alessio Bax, and the Symphony No.2 by Charles Ives in this conversation with Bax and Maestro Aram Demirjian. Bax performs with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra on November 16 and 17 at 7:30pm.
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Melony Dodson talks with Maestro Regulo Stabilito about the Oak Ridge Symphony's upcoming performance, featuring music by Beethoven, Ravel, Mason Bates, and Chen Yi.
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Melony Dodson talks with Ace Edewards, conductor of the Scruffy City Orchestra, about their concert on November 3, 2023.