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Deidre Huckabay (35) has a conversation with partner and colleague Michael Lewanski (42) about their reflections on the future of classical music and how Ear Taxi Festival has become a hub for connections and collaboration in the music scene of...

Kuang-Hao Huang (50) and his piano student, Helen Zell (78), talk about how they began working together, former piano teachers, experimentation, contemporary music, and their virtual piano lessons during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Bridget Skaggs (33) is interviewed by friend and colleague George Cederquist (42) about how she became involved in the Chicago opera scene, the pandemic's effect in the arts, founding the Fourth Coast Ensemble, and how grassroots arts organizations are revitalizing...

Lisa Kaplan (46) has a conversation with her longtime friend Matthew Duvall (50) about working together in the performing arts scene in Chicago and their chamber music project Eight Blackbird.

Sura Dupart (80) is interviewed by friend Adam Zanolini (41) about his early days in African drumming in Chicago, learning to make his own drums, meeting legendary musicians like Tony Williams, his spiritual connection with musicians, his music project the...

Patty Kennedy (33) has a conversation with Carling FitzSimmons (32) about their shared passion for ensemble singing and the evolution of their Chicago ensemble La Caccina.

Musicians and colleagues, Robert Dillon (41), and Peter Martin (41), talk about their percussion ensemble, Third Coast Percussion. They talk about their mentors over the years and the Chicago music scene.

Musician friends, Amy Wurtz (45), and Alyson Berger (52), talk about their collaboration, the Wurtz-Berger Duo. They talk about their instruments (piano and cello) and discuss their careers as musicians as well as the music scene in Chicago.

Xavier Beteta (40) has a conversation with his longtime friend and colleague Elisabet Curbelo Gonzalez (36) about the challenges navigating their music careers as international students in the United States, the freedom they've found as musicians outside of their countries,...

Jennie Oh Brown (52) and her colleague, Howard Reich (67), discuss music criticism, the stories behind their careers, Chicago's classical music scene, and how the COVID-19 Pandemic has affected musicians' lives.