The Fidelio Podcast
by Marie Ross
The Fidelio Podcast features interviews with different kinds of artists. Host, Marie Ross, talks about various topics in the arts. She interviews artists who might not necessarily be household names, but are all known and respected in their disciplines. The Fidelio Podcast deals with ideas and inspiration, what these artists' lives are like, and why they are driven to create.
Episodes
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Ep. 35: Brahms Mini-Series 4, Dirk Fischer
Recording engineer and producer, Dirk Fischer, chats about his career with Marie over coffee in St. Truiden, Belgium, where they have just finished recording Brahms Clarinet Sonatas and Trio with historical instruments. Dirk talks about his role in the recording process, and how it is much more...
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Ep. 34: Brahms Mini-Series 3, Claire-Lise Démettre
Marie sat down with historical cellist, Claire-Lise Démettre, to talk about Romantic-period string playing and techniques. They discuss Claire-Lise's cello and set-up, what it feels like to play gut strings, portamento, different kinds of vibrato – and those special moments that don't require...
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Ep 33: Brahms Mini-Series 2, Inspirations
This episode is very personal. Marie plays some short examples of various tracks from the new historically informed Brahms recording and talks about the inspirations, stories, experiences, and influences behind each example. Brahms' inspirations for works often included nature, occasions, and the...
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Ep. 32: Brahms Mini-Series, Introduction
The Brahms Mini-Series corresponds to the recent release of a new CD of the Brahms Works for Clarinet and Piano with Marie Ross (clarinet), Petra Somlai (piano), and Claire-Lise Démettre (cello). It was released on the Centaur Records label (CRC 3760) on Nov. 15. In the first episode of her…
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Ep 31: A Composition Contest
Marie shares her experiences doing something she never thought she'd do: organize a composition contest. As an early music specialist, she was venturing into the foreign world of contemporary music while still new to the foreign country of New Zealand. As the University of Auckland prepares to…
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Ep. 30: David Crowell
David Crowell is a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble, playing woodwinds, and is a genre-crossing composer in his own right, leading his own band, Empyrean Atlas. David plays guitars and saxophones in Empyrean Atlas, as well as writing the music, managing the band, and producing their 3 albums....
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Ep. 29: Posy Knight
Posy Knight is a dancer, choreographer, actor, scenic designer, director, and arts educator. She studied dance at Juilliard, and later went on to study scenic design at the University of Connecticut before moving to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she lives now. Marie chats with her about all the...
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Ep. 28 Franklin Cohen Part 2
This is the second part of Marie's interview with clarinetist, Franklin Cohen. If you haven't heard Part 1 yet, you can start there! This episode is all about intimacy in relationships – between musicians, between a musician and the audience, and even between a musician and the music itself. It's...
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Ep. 27: Franklin Cohen Part 1
Marie talks with Franklin Cohen, Grammy award winning clarinetist and Principal Clarinet of the Cleveland Orchestra for 39 seasons. They chat about his experience auditioning (twice!) for the Cleveland Orchestra and Lorin Maazel, expressivity on an instrument, how to find your voice as an...
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Ep. 26: Teaching Creativity
Marie talks about her journey moving across the world to New Zealand and from being a full-time performer to also including a teaching position at The University of Auckland. She chats about some of her own teachers and influences, and how it can be possible to teach creativity through music. As...
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Ep. 25: Miki Kekenj and the Concerto Köln Speak! Project
Hip-hop artist and classical violinist, Miki Kekenj, joins the podcast to discuss the Concerto Köln education project, Speak!. For this project, the period-instrument orchestra, Concerto Köln combined to play the Mozart Requiem with the period-instrument youth orchestra, Jugendbarockorchester...
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Episode 24: Josh Salsbury
Josh Salsbury was a trombonist in the freelance scene in LA. He had his own ensemble and was starting to play Hollywood blockbuster movie soundtracks when he decided to give up the trombone and pursue his new dream of woodworking. Josh now works full time designing and buliding custom furniture…
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Episode 23: Mark Kirkland's The Moving Picture Company 1914
In the second part of the interview with award-winning director, Mark Kirkland, he discusses his artistic life outside of his work for The Simpsons. He takes us inside his latest project, a silent film called The Moving Picture Company 1914. Mark wrote, directed, and produced the film (together...
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Episode 22: Mark Kirkland Part 1
Three-time Emmy award winning animation director for The Simpsons, Mark Kirkland, chats with Marie about all the aspects of his career as an artist: drawing, animation, directing, and comedy. He talks about his beginnings drawing with his father, the famous photographer, Douglas Kirkland. About…
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Episode 21: Thomas Morris and Dubliners 100
Dubliners 100 is a collection of 15 short stories, just like James Joyce's original short story collection, Dubliners, but each one written by a contemporary Irish wirter. They are not re-written stories or modernizations of the original work, but editor Thomas Morris thought of the idea of…
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Episode 20: Stories of Original Wind Instruments - Part 2
Marie speaks with her colleagues, specialists of historical performance, about their original wind instruments. They tell the stories of their favorite instruments - where and how they got them, and what they had to do to play it again today! German oboist, Peter Wuttke, talks about the English...
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Episode 19: Stories of Original Wind Instruments
In this episode, Marie and her early music colleagues from the wind section share stories about one of their original historical instruments. These stories are not only about the instruments, but about the players who have found them, restored them, and perform on them today. In many cases, these...
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Episode 18: Peter Kálmán Part 2
Baritone, Peter Kálmán, and Marie Ross chat at the Salzburg Festival in part 2 of their interview. Peter discusses the opera characters that he creates on stage and how he gets his inspiration from real life experiences. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */...
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Episode 17: Peter Kálmán Part 1
Internationally renowned baritone, Peter Kálmán, joins the podcast from the Salzburg Festival where he was singing Schubert's opera, Fierrabras, with Ingo Metzmacher and the Vienna Philharmonic. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable...
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Episode 16: Michael Walters
Michael Walters started out his career as a contemporary ballet dancer with the Netherlands Dance Theater, Frankfurt Ballet, and Lyon Opera, and has since transitioned into a career as an actor. After achiveing the top level of success as a dancer, Michael talks to Marie about what it was like to...
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Episode 15: Alexis Kossenko Demonstrates A Few Favorite Flutes
Flute player and conductor of Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko, demonstrates some favorite flutes from his collection. He takes us from the modern flute through the renaissance, baroque, classical and romantic periods. Some are copies of historical instruments made by modern instrument makers…
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Episode 14: From Perm With Love
This episode is about the newly released recording of Mozart's opera, Cosi fan tutte, by Russian orchestra MusicAeterna and conductor, Teodor Currentzis. This recording was made over two weeks in January in Perm, a Russian provincial city close to the Ural Mountains. Marie talks about her...
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Episode 13: Alexis Kossenko
Flutist and conductor, Alexis Kossenko, joins the program to discuss the melding of his two passions. He chats about his early life and how he got started on the flute at an unusually early age. Although he had an early and precocious interest in conducting, he explains how that came later after…
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Episode 12: Vivien and Olivia Steindler
Goth-chic fashion designers and baroque violinists, Vivien and Olivia Steindler, join the podcast to talk about how they think about fashion as an art form and how they started their clothing and jewelry brand, Voriagh. They are sisters, and discuss their early lives, influences, and their early...
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My Year of Living Dangerously: 4 Rossini Operas
It is an experience to play 4 different Rossini operas in one season. Marie talks about the four different productions that Ensemble Matheus played this season throughout Europe on historical instruments - and what the culture of theater life was like in Rossini's 19th century Italy when these...
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Episode 10: Barry Banks - Part 2
In part 2 of the conversation with opera star, Barry Banks, he talks openly about the issues that all performers and artists deal with: confidence, nerves, the dedication it takes to be a musician, and how important it is for him to have a life outside of singing. He talks about the balance that…
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Episode 9: Barry Banks - Part 1
International opera star, tenor, Barry Banks, talks with Marie in Salzburg, Austria, during their production of Rossini's Otello at the Pfingstfestspiele in June. Barry chats about his early life as a trumpet player, and how his experience as an instrumentalist and love for the trumpet and brass...
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Episode 8: James Joyce's Bloomsday
June 16th is Bloomsday, the only city-wide celebration of a day from a work of fiction! Bloomsday is a celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses, and it is the day that the events from the book took place in Dublin. In this special episode, Marie talks a bit about the book itself and delves into some…
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Episode 7: Michael Markwick
Michael Markwick is a Berlin based Dutch-American painter. In this episode, Marie joins him in his art studio in the Kreutzberg district of Berlin to talk with him about the inspirations, memories, and experiences behind his work. Michael's work is based in nature, and they talk about his process...
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Episode 6: Early Musician's Backpack
Marie talks about her experience being a historical performer in Europe, what her life is like, and also about what it means to be a performer today. She explains how she got into the early music world from being a modern clarinetist in the United States, what motivated her, the process of…
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Episode 5: Michael Alexander Willens
Michael Willens, conductor and founder of period-instrument orchestra, Die Kölner Akademie, talks about his experiences as a musician of many different genres, and explains his reasons for performing 20th century music with historical instruments. He also shares some samples of various recordings...
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Episode 4: Rossini's Otello
Marie talks about her experience performing Rossini's opera, Otello, in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with Cecilia Bartoli, Ensemble Matheus, and Jean-Christophe Spinosi. Recording the podcast from Paris on the night of the final performance, Marie discusses the production, Rossni's…
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Episode 3: Olga Zilberbourg
Russian-American writer, Olga Zilberbourg, talks about coming of age during the fall of the Soviet Union, moving to the United States at the age of 17, and how these extraordinary experiences have shaped her identity as an artist. Olga has been up until now mostly a short story writer, and is...
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Episode 2: Alex Lefevre
Alex Lefevre, musical theater composer, pianist, and director joins The Fidelio Podcast to talk about his life on Broadway! He also shares 4 of his original story-like songs with us. Alex has worked in the musical theater world of New York City doing everything from working the lights to acting,...
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Episode 1: An Introduction
Marie Ross, host of The Fidelio Podcast, and historical clarinetist introduces herself and talks about her ideas for making the podcast. She talks about her musical life, how she came to historical performance, and her plans for The Fidelio Podcast.
About this show
The Fidelio Podcast features interviews with different kinds of artists. Host, Marie Ross, talks about various topics in the arts. She interviews artists who might not necessarily be household names, but are all known and respected in their disciplines. The Fidelio Podcast deals with ideas and inspiration, what these artists' lives are like, and why they are driven to create.
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