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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A concert series from the Eastman School of Music is bringing musicians from around the world to Rochester in the new year.
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A beloved holiday tradition is returning to the stage of Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre this week after a lost year.
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Music Director Andreas Delfs and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra bring fairy-tale magic to Rochester with their second performance of “Hansel and Gretel” on Saturday, Nov. 20, at Eastman Theatre’s Kodak Hall.
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Violinist Curtis Stewart joins Eastman School of Music students and faculty for collaborative concert.
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The SF Chronicle and Washington Post have reported that Gateways Music Festival Music Director and Conductor Michael Morgan died Friday at the age of 63...
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“The show must go on...” That mantra is the rallying cry of artists finding ways to create, perform, and share their work no matter what is happening...
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The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has played contemporary music on their concerts alongside older classics before -- but this weekend’s concert is the…
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The opera Mrs. President is being performed Saturday night in Rochester. It tells the story of the first woman to run for president, which happened...
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Concert audiences in Rochester recently had to opportunity to hear the premier of new work that combines an ensemble of cellos with sounds captured from a…