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Afa Dworkin on the Sphinx Virtuosi
Program: Piedmont Arts Podcast
Aired: Monday, September 23, 2019
Hosted by Frank Dominguez
For more than twenty years, the Sphinx Organization has been dedicated to the development of young African-American and LatinX musicians. The annual Sphinx Competition recognizes rising young classical musicians of color, and the Sphinx Virtuosi is a chamber orchestra that features recent contestants. Afa Dworkin, the group’s artistic director, talks about the ensemble's performance in Watson Hall at UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC.
Learn more about the Sphinx Virtuosi in Concert
Pictured: Afa Dworkin; by Kevin Kennedy
Playlist
9 am | |
| Miles Hoffman · A Minute with Miles: Leonard Bernstein | |
| Leonard Bernstein · "Somewhere" from "West Side Story" Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Nadine Sierra, soprano Deutsche Grammophon B00288 3602 "Nadine Sierra - There's A Place For Us" | |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams · Oboe Concerto London Symphony Orchestra David Theodore, oboe Chandos 8594 "Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony" | |