Our February Spotlight Chamber Music artists sit down and share how they got started and one word which describes their relationship to music. We also get to know a little more about French composer Francis Poulenc

Episode 17 Festival 2019 Preview

Oct 30th, 2018 16m 11s

Music Director Michael Francis gives us an insightful preview to the 2019 San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival.Prog 1 (June 8 – Genius Night)Jeremy Denk, pianoHandel: Music for the Royal FireworksMozart: Piano Concerto in F K. 459 IntervalM

MMP Episode 16: Lexi Preucil

Jun 13th, 2018 31m 50s

Lexi talks about leaving her secure job in the prestigious Cleveland Orchestra to become a citizen of the world. She has moved to Vienna and has been playing across Europe and documenting her travels on Instagram. @alexandrapreucil

MMP Episode 15: Pianist and Coach

Apr 17th, 2018 44m 47s

In this episode pianist Ines Irawati talks about growing up in Indonesia, coming to Cleveland at the age of 15, and how much she loves playing Mozart.

MMP Podcast Episode 14: Greatest Concerto of All Time.

Feb 21st, 2018 25m 3s

It does not get any better than this performance of Saint Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 by pianist Adam Neiman and the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra conducted by music director Michael Francis.

MMP Episode 13: Anne Akiko Meyers

Feb 9th, 2018 21m 23s

Anne Akiko Meyers is a special guest on the podcast. She is premiering Adam Schoenberg's Violin Concerto with the San Diego Symphony this weekend. I jumped at the opportunity to speak with her at the Historic Hotel del Coronado.

MMP Episode 12: Bragging and Mozart

Feb 2nd, 2018 7m 29s

The conclusion of Mozart's Symphony No. 29 from the 2017 Mainly Mozart Festival. However, first we brag a little bit about the sublime Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra.

MMP Episode 11: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1

Jan 25th, 2018 38m 56s

"Pianist Jorge Federico Osorio all but disappeared while playing the Beethoven. The level of his technique and musicianship removed all barriers between us and the ambitious young Beethoven. Nay, his abilities removed all barriers between us an

MMP Episode 10: How a conductor grows.

Jan 18th, 2018 14m 50s

Mainly Mozart music director Michael Francis was in Orange County as a guest conductor for The Pacific Symphony. We sat down in the bustling lobby of his hotel to discuss his preparation for the festival and his development as a conductor.

New Year's Gift: Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1

Dec 26th, 2017 13m 28s

You will never hear a better performance of Prokofiev's homage to the classical period. This was one of the peaks of the 2017 Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, CA.

MMP Episode 9: Piano Hero

Nov 13th, 2017 8m

In this episode Maestro Francis discusses Mozart's further development as the hero of his own story and we revisit the glory of the 2017 performance of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony.

MMP Episode 8: Mozart becoming a real human being.

Nov 6th, 2017 10m 12s

On this episode maestro Michael Francis talks about Mozart's coming of age both as an artist and an actual human being and how that relates to the Mainly Mozart Festival.

MMP Episode 7: Through Struggle to the Stars

Oct 30th, 2017 5m 40s

Maestro Michael Francis shares a roadmap to reaching the stars.

MMP Episode 6: Big, Bad, Bassoonist.

Oct 23rd, 2017 26m 57s

Today's podcast is with Dan Shelly. Dan is the acting principal bassoonist at the Metropolitan Opera and he has been a member of the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra for three years. Dan and I met in New York's Central Park which means there'

Episode 5: Oboe he didn't.

Oct 17th, 2017 19m 55s

Nathan Hughes is the principal oboist for the Mainly Mozart Festival and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He was in San Diego so we met in what we thought would be a quite corner of LA Jolla and got right down to the business of discussing the

MMP Episode 4

Oct 12th, 2017 13m 30s

In episode number 3, Jeffrey Khaner mentioned how difficult it was to get the opening woodwind chords of Mendelssohn's Mid summer night's dream to come off cleanly. With that in mind the musical selection for today is the very same piece as per