Gilad Weiss takes us on a visit to his music studio and improvises on several of his instruments, including the fretless guitar, and some of the instruements from Turkey and Central Asia, such as the kopuz, the baglama and the Turkmenistani dutar. He also spoke to me about his duo project with the Anatolian kamanche player Melisa Yildirim and we’re including a track from their beautiful album, which is linked in the show notes for this episode along with Gilad’s album Improvisations on Fretless Guitar Volume 1, and the ways to connect with Gilad. He shared his valuable insights about teaching music, and teaching the guitar, improvisation and interesting details about the modes and tuning systems for the various instruments he demonstrates. 

In this special Catch-Up Episode with multi-style violinist and educator Gina Burgess we talk about all the changes in her lmusical life since our first conversation, and feature her album ISNOW. This is the full transcript of this interview, which is also linked to the original episode.

This is the full transcript of my interview with Gina Burgess, a Candian multi-style violinist. The podcast and video versions are linked.

I was really honoured to have this opportunity to sit down and talk with the dynamic conductor, composer, multi-instrumentalist and radio host of CBC's CentreStage, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser. We explored many interesting and important ideas around creating spaces for diverse audiences, amateur versus professional musicians, LGBTQ rights, his project with the drag queen Thorgy Thor, the lost music of Florence Price, and wonderful advice not only for conductors, but for everyone seeking more balance and meaning in their lives. This is the full transcript of our conversation.

Transcript for the in-depth interview with the multi-style violinist/vocalist, author, composer, producer and educator Julie Lyonn Lieberman.