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 Maestro Aram Demirjian and internationally-renowned cellist, Zlatomir Fung, who performs Elgar's Cello Concerto with the KSO on October 16 and 17, 2025 -
Melony Dodson talks with Artistic Director and conductor, Brian Salesky, about the Amadeus Concert Ensemble's Polish Classics program -
Melony Dodson talks with conductor, Aram Demirjian and principal horn, Jeffery Whaley, about the Knoxville Symphony's Chamber Series concert featuring music of Richard Strauss, Mozart, and Florence Price. -
Melony Dodson talks with Alex Dally, Executive Director of Nief-Norf, about Synnergy 2025 -
Melony Dodson talks with soprano, Kathryn Frady and tenor, Edward Brennan. Frady and Brennan are the leads in Marble City Opera's upcoming production of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Performances are in Oak Ridge at A.K. Bissell Park on Thursday, June 5th and Saturday, June 7th. -
Melony Dodson talks with conductor, Aram Demirjian -
Melony Dodson talks with Maestro Aram Demirjian about the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's upcoming "Violins of Hope" performance. -
Melony Dodson talks with conductor, Aram Demirjian and composer, Molly Herron about the April KSO Chamber Classics concert. -
Melony Dodson, Matthew Motley, Carter Moore and Todd Steed break down the highlights, the joys, the surprises and the possible philosophical ramifications of Big Ears 2025. Highlights? Regrets? It's all here. -
Melony Dodson talks with Edgar Meyer, Tessa Lark, and Joshua Roman about their performance at the Big Ears Festival 2025. They will perform an early string trio by Edgar Meyer, music of Bach, and a brand new trio by Meyer, which was commissioned, in part, by the Big Ears Organization.
