Acclaimed a cappella group Voctave celebrates their 10th anniversary in Dr. Sinclair's conversation with founder Jamey Ray. Ray discusses the group's evolution from their first recording session in 2015 to becoming one of the country's premier vocal ensembles. The episode explores their distinctive sound, recent touring in Japan, and plans for a special anniversary concert featuring legendary guests Sandi Patty and Jody McBrayer. Enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at a decade of musical excellence and artistic growth.

For more information on Voctave, make sure to check out their website at voctave.net

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Hello and welcome to the new series of Insights & Sounds. To kick off season 2, we have a very special guest with us.

Dr. Byeol Kim is a concert pianist, Steinway Artist, creative collaborator, mom, wife, and artistic firestarter. Born and raised in South Korea, she now calls Florida home, where she balances an active performance life with a deep passion for creative projects that connect music to emotion, imagination, and story.

For this episode. Dr. Sinclair and her talk about her upcoming performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Winter Park Bach Festival, her previous performance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto, her approaches to performance and preparation, as well as piano techniques and sound production.

For more information on Dr. Kim, you can visit her website here.

For tickets to her upcoming performances with the Winter Park Bach Festival, click here.

The musical excerpt you hear at the beginning is of her performance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto with the Winter Park Bach Festival.

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In this episode, your host, Dr. John Sinclair, takes you through Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Carl Orff's Carmina Burana opens with those thunderous "O Fortuna" chords you've heard in countless movies, but there's so much more beyond that iconic moment. Premiered in 1937, this cantata sets medieval drinking songs, love ballads, and spring celebrations to music that's both primitive and hypnotic.

Orff discovered these 13th-century poems in a Bavarian monastery and transformed them into something that feels ancient yet modern. The result is raw, rhythmic, and primal; stripping away romantic complexity for pure visceral impact

The opening theme is performed by the Winter Park Bach Festival. All other works are from the 1991 Decca release of Carmina Burana by the San Francisco Symphony led by Herbert Blomstedt.

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