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Meet Our Bloggers
The Chicago Classical Music blog, Backstage, is co-autored by staff members of CCM's participating organizations. Each writer maintains an individual blog, and entries appear together at Backstage with the most recent submission at the top.
Chicago Classical Music bloggers have a profound understanding of classical music and a desire to share their enthusiasm and behind-the-scenes perspective. Visitors are encouraged to add comments, ask questions and engage in dialogue with authors and other readers. Simply click on the comment link at the end of each post. (Comments will be removed if they do not comply with general guidelines.)
More information about each contributor is available below, along with links to their individual blogs. Visit Backstage to view all entries.
Adriana McClintock
Adriana is the Marketing Manager for Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL, the oldest music festival in North America. Ravinia books more concerts and a greater variety of genres than any other festi...
Angela Golden
Angela has been working as the Site Manager for ChicagoClassicalMusic.org since the summer of 2007. In addition to her work at CCM.org, Angela works for the Chicago Sinfonietta as the Development ...
Brian Dickie
Since Brian Dickie’s appointment as General Director in 1999, COT has become a company of international renown and following. His first season with COT in 2000 was met with such acclaim that he wa...
BrianBaxterMusic
Brian Baxter (b.1985) is a Chicago-based composer, percussionist and drummer. In his music, Brian seeks to develop a compelling narrative giving the performer an idea, emotio...
Bridget McDonough
Bridget McDonough has been employed in arts management since graduating from Northwestern University in 1978. In 1980 she co-founded Light Opera Works with Philip Kraus and others. She holds members...
Garry Clarke
British violinist and conductor Garry Clarke has recently come to notice as one of the finest of the new generation of interpreters of baroque music. Time-Out Chicago magazine music critic called him ...
Heather Haigh
Heather is a 2006 graduate of the University of Iowa where she earned a Bachelors Degree in Communications and Journalism. Since moving to Chicago from her native Iowa she has worked to pursue a caree...
Jim Ginsburg
James Ginsburg founded Cedille Records in 1989 when he was a 23-year-old law student at the University of Chicago. He left law school to manage Cedille Records full-time in 1992. He previously worked ...
Jim Hirsch
Jim Hirsch has served as Executive Director of Chicago Sinfonietta since August 2004. Previously, Hirsch served as Vice President and Executive Director of the Chicago Association for the Performing A...
Jim Palermo
James W. Palermo is the Artistic and General Director of the Grant Park Music Festival. The Festival has expanded during his tenure to offer an eclectic mix of music while highlighting living American...
Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller is founder and Artistic Director of Chicago a cappella. For his innovative programming and high musical standards, Jonathan Miller has gained international accolades, most recently t...
Kevin Giglinto
Kevin Giglinto joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association’s staff in 1999, serving as the organization’s first Director of E-Commerce. Kevin’s efforts to redesign the CSO’s Web siteâ€...
Matt DeStefano
Matt has been with WFMT since 2005 where he is Producer/Engineer/Post-Producer of many things which include weekly Critical Thinking broadcasts, (Mondays @ 10pm) numerous segments and interview clip...
Richard Van Kleeck
Richard Van Kleeck, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University School of Music   A graduate of New England Conservatory of Music, Richard studied horn with Harry Shapiro and Barry Tuc...
Stephen Burns
 Trumpet virtuoso and conductor Stephen Burns has been acclaimed on four continents for his consistently and widely varied performances encompassing recitals, orchestral appearances, chamber ensemb...
