The NOVA Podcast brings you insightful discussions with musicians and great performances from the NOVA Chamber Music Series archives.
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Most Recent Episodes
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Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of the Americas, NOVA’s April 10 concert. Learn More →
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Perseverance, NOVA’s January 16 concert. Learn More →
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Life, NOVA’s November 14 concert. Learn More →
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Gratitude, the first concert in NOVA’s 2021/22 Season. Learn More →
Jason Hardink and Caitlyn Valovick Moore perform works by three great American composers. Then six violists and cellists each take on a movement of Bach’s famous Third Suite for Solo Cello. Learn More →
How does a musician present works from diverse voices in a way that respects their origins? Jason Hardink wrestles with the question in a discussion with Jeff Counts. Learn More →
Enjoy a full-length concert of chamber music performances by NOVA musicians. This concert features an early work by Iannis Xenakis, three works by living American composers, and one of Beethoven’s final piano sonatas. Learn More →
Composer Joan Tower talks about her love for chamber music, her approach to mentoring young composers, and what new pieces she has in store. Learn More →
Bassoonist Lori Wike explores the music of a composer who wasn’t afraid to defy genre boundaries and discover his own voice. Learn More →
Beethoven’s Drei Equale were composed in honor of All Souls’ Day, but they would find their real place in history after the composer’s death, when they were performed at his funeral and the dedication of his tombstone. Learn More →
Alone in a foreign land and grieving the loss of his mother, the 22-year-old Mozart put pen to paper and produced some of the most poignant music he would ever create. Learn More →
We speak with two artists who are using their work to explore humanity's interaction with the environment. Composer Gabriela Lena Frank and playwright Chantal Bilodeau discuss how the arts bring discussions of climate change and sustainability center stage. Learn More →
Photographer Garth Lenz and systems scientist Dr. Elizabeth Sawin help us take the details of the past four episodes, process them together, and see the big picture—both through Lenz's aerial photography and Sawin's "multisolving" approach to systemic change. Learn More →
We’ve talked about water. We’ve talked about life. Now it’s time to talk about dinner. The menu includes agro-ecology and sustainable food, prepared by farmer Chris Smaje. Learn More →
Ecologist John Shivik has spent his life studying predator-prey relationships. He and visual artist Rebecca Allan bond over their mutual love of gardening (and discuss how her art for Rising Tide explores humanity’s place in the intricate web of life on our planet). Learn More →
Robert Waters and Dr. Rob Davies discuss the creation of "H2O", the second movement in Laura Kaminsky's string quartet Rising Tide, which is featured in the new film from The Crossroads Project. They are joined by the composer and Dr. Ben Abbott, Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Biology at BYU. Learn More →
On October 25, NOVA Chamber Music Series presented the world premiere of Rising Tide, a new film from The Crossroads Project. After the screening, some of the film's creators joined host Jeff Counts to discuss how their personal encounters with climate change and sustainability led to the birth of this project. Learn More →