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 John Orr, Artistic Director and conductor of the Knoxville Choral Society, about their upcoming performance on November 3 and 5. The central idea of "Uncaged" is centered around "freeing yourself from different types of cages."
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Melony Dodson talks with New York Philharmonic Concertmaster, Frank Huang. Huang is in residency for a week at the University of Tennessee College of Music, where he is leading masterclasses and rehearsing with the UT Symphony Orchestra, which will culminate in a performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto on September 16 at 7:30pm.
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Melony Dodson talks with Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Music Director, Aram Demirjian, and Concertmaster, William Shaub about the upcoming KSO Chamber Classics Concert. The performance is Sunday, September 17th at 2:30pm in the Bijou Theatre in downtown Knoxville. The orchestra will perform music by Mozart, Ethel Smyth, and Knoxville-based composer, Jorge Variego.
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Melony Dodson talks with Diana Salesky from the Amadeus Chamber Ensemble about their upcoming performance featuring selections from Rossini's Stabat Mater and Messe Solennelle. This performance is part of the free Cathedral Concert Series hosted by Sacred Heart Cathedral in Knoxville.
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Melony Dodson talks with Ashley Capps, the founder and executive and artistic director of Knoxville's Big Ears Festival. See the initial lineup and find more information about the separately ticketed events.
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Melony Dodson talks with Maestro Stabilito about the Oak Ridge Symphony's season opener, "A Musical Exploration of Cultures"
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Melony Dodson chats with John Zastoupil, the new Director of Bands at the University of Tennessee. He talks about his prior experience, his vision for the UT Band program, and about what to expect in the upcoming academic school year.
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Melony Dodson talks with Eric Dawson, assistant director for the McClung Collection, and keyboardists, Roger Miller and Ron Carter, who will provide live accompaniment for two of Clarence Brown's silent films being shown as part of the Clarence Brown Film Festival held in downtown Knoxville
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Melony Dodson talks with Dr. Jeffrey Pappas, Director of the UT College of Music
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Melony Dodson talks with soprano and Executive and Artistic Director of Marble City Opera, Kathryn Frady