Kip Winger: Rocking the Nashville Symphony

Kip Winger is one of those rare artists who’s both a famed rock musician and a noted classical composer. As lead singer and bass player for his eponymous rock band, Kip cranked out a couple of hard-charging, platinum-selling rock albums in the late 1980s and early 90s. In recent years, he’s emerged as an important composer of symphonic music, earning a Grammy nomination for his ballet score Conversations with Nijinsky. In this episode of MACC Talk, Winger joins host John Pitcher to discuss his new Violin Concerto, which the violinist Peter Otto and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra will premiere May 9-10, 2025 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville. The episode is sponsored by our friends at Nōssi College of Art and Design.