
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.
You can reach Melony via email.
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Melony Dodson talks with oboist, Tim Gocklin and clarinetist, Kari Landry of the Grammy Award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet. The quintet will be in residency at the UT College of Music, February 17th-18th.
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Melony Dodson talks with conductor, Brian Salesky, about the music on the Amadeus Concert Ensemble's next program, "The Lighter Side of Beethoven." The performance is on Sunday, February 16th at 4:30pm.
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Melony Dodson talks with Parnian Rezaei, the first young artist to perform as part of the Evelyn Miller Young Pianist Series 2025 season. Her recital is Sunday, February 9th at 2pm in Powell Recital Hall.
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Melony Dodson talks with guest conductor, Michelle Rofrano and tenor, Ben Gulley, who is singing the role of Rodolfo in Knoxville Opera's production of Puccini's La Boheme
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Melony Dodson talks with vocalist, Evelyn Jack and conductor, Aram Demirjian about Mahalia Jackson and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's "MLK Celebration Concert"
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Melony Dodson talks with executive artistic director, Kathryn Frady and managing director, Frank Murphy, about Marble City Opera's Pop-Up Party and the remainder of the 2024-2025 season.
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Melony Dodson talks with Maestro Aram Demirjian about the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's January Masterworks program, featuring Mahler's Symphony No.5
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Melony Dodson talks with Brian Salesky, artistic director of the Amadeus Concert Ensemble, about their upcoming performance, Chanukah Music Fest. Salesky explains the holiday of Chanukah and how their program will highlight some of the traditions, ceremonies, and history of this annual celebration.
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Melony Dodson talks with music director, Aram Demirjian and concertmaster, William Shaub, about the KSO's November Masterworks concert.
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Melony Dodson talks with John Orr, music director of the Knoxville Choral Society, about the ensemble's November 2024 Masterworks Concert.