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KSO Chamber Classics explores the commonalities between Baroque and Contemporary music

Melony Dodson talks with conductor, Aram Demirjian and composer, Molly Herron about the April KSO Chamber Classics concert.

The Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra's next performance is on Sunday, April 6th at 2:30pm in the historic Bijou Theatre. On the program is Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Spectacle of Light by Stacy Garrop, and Spin, Span, Spun by Molly Herron. Four of the KSO's core violinists will be featured as soloists: Sean Claire, Zofia Glashauser, I-Pei Lin, and Kyle Venlet. All three pieces on the program share a Baroque influence, despite being composed nearly three-hundred years apart. Learn more about the music in this interview with Maestro Aram Demirjian and composer, Molly Herron, who is currently a professor of composition at Vanderbilt University.

The performance is sold-out, but listeners can hear WUOT's KSO broadcast, which will air on Tuesday, April 29th.

Melony 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.