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 Friday, June 17, 2022.
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This weekend, Rochester ballet dancer Jessica Tretter will take to the stage as the Firebird in her final performances. But she says her life long love of dance will keep her in the field, as a teacher,
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A new center for equity and inclusion was dedicated Saturday at the Eastman School of Music. The center is named for composer George Walker.
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The Gateways Music Festival, a gathering of classical musicians of African descent for concerts, lectures, and other events, is returning April 18 through 24, with a few changes.
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Composer Augusta Read Thomas returned to Rochester for the world premiere of her work "Dance Mobile" performed by Eastman's Musica Nova.
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The Rochester Oratorio Society is preparing to perform a major work by the first Black graduate of the Eastman School of Music: R. Nathaniel Dett's "The Ordering of Moses."
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Stephane Wrembel on his latest project "Django L'impressioniste" and on Django Reinhardt's connections to classical music
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A new album is the result of a collaboration between writers who are primarily nonspeaking and musicians interested in developing understanding.
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The University of Rochester announced that all classes this month will be conducted online -- and that includes the Eastman School of Music.
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A concert series from the Eastman School of Music is bringing musicians from around the world to Rochester in the new year.