Mona Seghatoleslami
Announcer/ProducerMona Seghatoleslami is the host and producer on WXXI Classical 91.5 FM weekdays from 3 to 7 p.m. She also hosts the lunchtime concert series Live From Hochstein at 12:10 p.m. Wednesdays, interviews musicians, produces special programs, and works on any project she can find that helps connect people and music in our community through WXXI.
Mona is originally from New Jersey; she ventured out to the Midwest for college, where studied viola at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She got her start in radio at WFIU in Bloomington, Indiana while in grad school studying musicology and library science at Indiana University. She also spent a few years as a radio announcer and producer in West (by God) Virginia, where she also wrote for the Charleston Gazette and taught American music at West Virginia State University.
When she’s not on the radio, you can find Mona attending concerts and movies, playing viola in community orchestras, occasionally strumming the ukulele, riding her bike everywhere, and reading as much as she can — especially The New Yorker and sci-fi novels. She also books the bands for one of the coolest live music venues in Rochester — The Little Theatre Café.
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ConnectionsHere's what's coming up on "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Thursday, January 19, 2023. -
This Friday, new music from young Iranian composer Aftab Darvishi will premiere in Rochester at Hochstein. -
ConnectionsIn the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Tuesday, December 20, 2022, what can we learn about the Latin American world through art? Guest host Mona Seghatoleslami leads a conversation about the work of Grupo Cultural Latinos En Rochester and the value of immersing ourselves in other cultures. -
ConnectionsHere's what's coming up on "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Tuesday, December 20, 2022. -
The world premiere of "How Bright the Sunlight" is at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5, at Eastman's Kodak Hall. -
Celebrations with film and music of the Eastman Theatre's 100th birthday. -
The Eastman School of Music faculty will play an 11-concert series this fall. -
Guitarist Simon Fletcher performs his 12-song composition, "Soundtrack to the Seasons: Upstate New York," at the reopened historic Avon Park Theater. -
Organizers of the show "If All of Rochester Wrote the Same Song" are inviting the community to submit their songs with the title, "What Did I Miss?" -
On Sunday, July 10, local student musicians will play a free concert at Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music.
