What’s the defining sound of American classical music? What people, stories, sights and sounds throughout American history built our unique classical tradition, and where does it go from here? On Classical Americana, iconoclastic pianist Lara Downes drives you down the highways and byways of American music, with roadside discoveries and detours to the crossroads where musical traditions merge and transform.

Pianist Lara Downes was named 2022 Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today. She has been called “an explorer whose imagination is fired by bringing notice to the underrepresented and forgotten”.