A Stick With A Point
Episodes
Orli Shaham - A lot more than just Mozart!
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Orli Shaham is one of the brightest stars on the musical stage today. Not only a wonderful pianist and expressive performer, she is one of the sharpes...
Emerson Quartet violinist Philip Setzer - a founding member of this legendary ensemble!
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With tales of George Szell, Oscar Shumsky and over fifty years as a violinist in the revered Emerson Quartet, Philip Setzer is full of tales, reminisc...
Moray Welsh - more than a great cellist.
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Moray Welsh is one of the UK's most distinguished musicians. In this podcast he describes his musical life's journey, how he came to meet and be champ...
The Italian Maestro!
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The wonderful Italian conductor, Carlo Rizzi shares memories, ideas and experiences about music making in general and, about conducting in some of the...
Mark Hanson, via Houston and San Francisco, President and CEO of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Following stints in a similar role at the Houston and San Francisco Symphony orchestras, Mark Hanson is the recently appointed President and CEO of th...
JoAnn Falletta
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
JoAnn is one of the most beloved and enterprising of all conductors working today. She's enjoyed spectacular success during her tenures as music direc...
A Life at the Helm!
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Meecham, one of the industry's most distinguished leaders reflects on a lifetime managing orchestras in both the USA and UK.
Jeremy Rothman and Philadelphia’s new ’Golden Age’.
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Rothman, Chief Programming Officer for The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Kimmel Center, guides us through his role in the orchestra's new "Gol...
Conductor Spotlight - James Judd
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s hear it from conductors! In an occasional departure from the usual A Stick with a Point format I’ve been interviewing a few of my conducto...
Strads, Guarneris and the world of great violins!
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All you ever wanted to know about how the greatest violins move around the music world and why. Bruno Price from Rare Violins of New York gives us the...
Jeffrey Sharkey - Principal of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An inspiring interview with a musician who is truly leading the way into the future for young artists and re-imagining the landscape for performers.
Kathy Schuman and the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts!
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kathy Schuman, Vice President & Artistic Director of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in New York shares some of the delights, challenges an...
Violins of Hope co-founder Avshi Weinstein
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Avshi Weinstein, co-founder of the amazing Violins of Hope project - rescued and restored string instruments from the Holocaust - tours the world with...
Simon Eadon - the man behind the controls for fifty years!
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Eadon is one of the most respected and successful recording engineers of today and has been at the controls of countless great recordings of cla...
Lowering the Tone and Raising the Roof - the story of Raymond Gubbay.
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Raymond Gubbay, the only man I know who ever made money out of classical music and, introduced tens of thousands of people to this glorious art shares...
Beethoven and Jonathan DelMar - quite a team!
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leading Beethoven scholar Jonathan DelMar gives us the lowdown on his celebrated excavations into the mistakes, misprints and misreadings of some of t...
Jessica Brennan - Director of the Menuhin Competition and Donatella Flick/LSO Conducting Competition
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Director of both the Donatella Flick/LSO Conducting Competition and Menuhin Competition, Jessica Brennan, gives the low down on how these celebrated e...
Sir James MacMillan
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The great composer Sir James MacMillan discusses his formative years and shares thoughts on composing techniques, sources of inspiration, his festival...
Andrew Jowett - Symphony Hall's man at the helm for over 25 years!
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Jowett, the former, and longtime, director of one of the greatest concert halls in the world recounts the hurdles jumped and the deals made to ...
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Director, Dominic Parker - A Man For All Seasons
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Director, Dominic Parker is my inspiring guest on this episode. Not only does he rise to the challenges of running one...
Nancy Laturno
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Laturno, Mainly Mozart and a whole lot more than just a summer music festival in California!
The One and Only, Robert deMaine!
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't know the wonderful cellist Robert deMaine already, now's your chance. As Principal Cellist of the LA Philharmonic he not only holds one o...
Stewart Goodyear - Breaking the House Rules!
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I'm breaking my own house rules by inviting a performing musician as my guest. But what a musician! Stewart Goodyear is a phenomenal p...
Steinway's top man reveals all!
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ulrich Gerhartz is Steinway's top man in London when it comes to getting the very best out of their legendary instruments. In our chat he describes ju...
Jennifer Higdon - The world's most performed living composer.
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this fabulously informative and lively interview, Jennifer Higdon, the world's 'busiest' composer, offers insights not only into her inspirations a...
The Legendary Henry Fogel
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Fogel has managed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony in DC and the American Symphony Orchestra League in a career that began in t...
Eleanor Hope - Music, Management and Menuhin
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The highly respected artist manager Eleanor Hope recounts her many years in the business and her time as the great Yehudi Menuhin's manager. Along the...
Episode 4 - John Gilhooly of London's Wigmore Hal
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Gilhooly is the inspirational force behind one of the great recital venues in the world, Wigmore Hall in London. In this interview he not only sp...
Episode 3 - Stacy Garrop, a composer with a tale to tell.
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Award winning composer Stacy Garrop is rapidly becoming loved and admired for her energetic and engaging musical language. In this interview she trace...
Classical Music on the Public Airwaves!
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Palevsky is a source of inspiration and joy to all of his listeners. Listen here to find out what makes classical music work on the public ai...
Keener! Record producer extraordinaire.
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Keener is one of the finest and most sought after record producers in the classical music business. In this conversation AC and AK discuss what...
A Stick With A Point - Introduction
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Conductor Andrew Constantine introduces his new series of interviews with luminaries from behind the scenes in the classical music industry. Celebrity...