Jennifer Hambrick
Classical Midday AnnouncerJennifer Hambrick unites her extensive backgrounds in the arts and media and her deep roots in Columbus to bring inspiring music to central Ohio as Classical 101’s midday host. Jennifer performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago before earning a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the recipient of both the Eastman School’s prestigious Performer’s Certificate and a Fulbright grant for advanced study in London, England.
As a writer and radio producer, Jennifer has interviewed some of the world’s most fascinating people, including Nobel Peace Prize-winning authors, Wolfe Prize-winning mathematicians and many of the world’s foremost classical musicians. Her feature writing has appeared in numerous publications across the country, as well as on WOSU Radio and wosu.org, and has garnered national awards. An award-winning poet, Jennifer’s poetry has also been honored with nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Ohioana Book Award.
Jennifer enjoys seeking out adventures in good food and healthy living, digging deep in her garden and savoring good times with family.
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Classical 101If you’ve been to an orchestra or band concert before, then you’ve seen the usual concert routine. But Scott Jones, professor and associate director of bands at the Ohio State University School of Music, is crafting performances with one of his ensembles differently these days. And the results are anything but predictable. -
Classical 101Since 2017 Antoine Clark’s list of guest conducting engagements has grown steadily longer and, this season, will expand coast to coast. But even as Clark's conducting career takes him farther afield, he’s set to remain on the podium of one of central Ohio’s professional orchestras. -
Classical 101Columbus’ resident early music ensemble, The Early Interval, brings the holiday season to a close with a Twelfth Night concert featuring exquisite music composed by women in the convents of 16th- and 17th-century Italy. -
Classical 101For nearly a century, millions of people around the world have enjoyed the annual Christmas Eve radio broadcast of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge University. -
Classical 101The joyful radiance of trumpets and horns, the fulsome resonance of a beautiful historic church and the jubilant strains of favorite carols sung but once a year. The Utopia Brass Quintet performs Festival of Carols with organist Collin Richardson Sun., Dec. 18 at 4 p.m. in St. Mary Catholic Church, in German Village. -
Classical 101Learn about Alix Raspé’s unwieldy yet surprisingly practical life as a professional harpist, and watch her perform Glinka’s beautiful Nocturne for Harp in WOSU’s Performance Studio. -
Classical 101During the last 25 years, Shirley has gone from the rhythm section of a rising-star rock band to L.A.’s Skid Row and, most recently, to a new career as a classical composer in his current home of Newark, Ohio. The story of Shirley’s path to central Ohio is one of loneliness and addiction, of mountaintop highs and rock-bottom despair and, ultimately, recovery and redemption. And music was the friend that led him to a new life. -
Classical 101How does a child navigate the hardships and heartaches of a world run by adults? Columbus composer Rocco Di Pietro grapples with this and other questions about the dark side of childhood in his piano work The Children’s Journey. Acclaimed pianist and contemporary music specialist Kathleen Supové will perform the world premiere of The Children’s Journey in Columbus on Nov. 15. -
Classical 101When Scott Hanratty isn't performing as a professional bassoonist, he's often enjoying the meditative music of weaving cozy textiles on his loom. -
Classical 101At one point in time, the skies over North America were full of birds. The ravages of overhunting, industrialization, pollution and trading have silenced many of those species forever. Now American composer Christopher Tin has memorialized extinct birds in The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy, recently available in a recording by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and VOCES8.
