This is the transcript of my interview with the Euclid Quartet. The Podcast and Video versions are linked here, along with the shownotes. This world-class string quartet is celebrating their 25th anniversary with a fantastic album of short pieces, entitled Breve, and we are featuring several pieces from that album as part of this episode. In this conversation you’ll get to know each member of the quartet, which is in residence at Indiana University South Bend. I was curious to learn more about the many roles the quartet plays in their capacities as performers, educators and collaborators, and to hear them speak about the special joys and challenges of being members of a full-time quartet.

This is the transcript of my interview with the Reggae artist Jah’Mila, and the podcast, video, bonuses, and shownotes are also linked here.

It's really interesting to hear about Theo Marks' unique upbringing in a family of musicians, and his personal journey to become a violin-family maker. Theo Marks: “ think if you just go through once and see the process from finish to end, you'll learn so much about how your violin functions. I mean, I can imagine that I barely was aware that I had a sound post in my cello, as a teenager, and that the fingerboard might need - that the arching of my cello was affecting its tone at the f-holes. You can so easily focus just on the technical aspects of playing. And I find now as a cellist I'm really enriched as a musician being more aware of how that wood is vibrating and what I'm hearing and how what I can do to affect that and how much is coming from the instrument itself.”