Notes from Home

Although many classical guitarists wear funky socks that they show off while using a foot rest, Gohar Vardanyan isn't one of them. She usually performs…

Tom Rose has been spending a lot of time with his collection of 20 banjos lately.Currently on furlough from his role as store manager of Interlochen's…

Like a lot of professional musicians, Clara Warnaar has struggled to feel excited about performing music during these uncertain times.Warnaar, who is a…

Jazz, new music, early music, standard orchestral repertoire: you name it, and cellist Christine Kyprianides has played it expertly.She started as an…

Carol Jantsch's cat Beauregard never wants to be left out of anything, unless Carol is playing the tuba.Carol, the principal tuba player of the…

Sophie Haas hasn't been able to hug her father Jeff since the middle of March.The two are keeping a safe distance from each other during the pandemic,…

Many professional musicians wear black tie to their performances, but Casey Paulozzi sports a black tricorn hat, a waistcoat and a white powdered wig.…

There's not a lot of music out there for two solo violas to play, but mother and son violists Renee and Joseph Skerik found a duet to play just for…

After she saw Itzhak Perlman playing the violin on Sesame Street, four-year-old Melissa White pestered her mother nonstop until she got her very own…

Kevin LaRose loves his job as the third shift campus safety officer at Interlochen Center for the Arts. It's peaceful, he says, and it gives him lots of…