Minnesota Public Radio: "Performance Today" host Fred Child Interviews Maestro Roderick Cox (49 min., 5 sec.)

Maestro Roderick Cox answers an audience question at a Classical MPR event in the Forum at Minnesota Public Radio. Steven Cohen for MPR

Minnesota Public Radio

Interview with Roderick Cox

Vaughn Ormseth · St. Paul, Minn. · Jan 20, 2017     

http://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2017/01/20/minnesota-orchestras-roderick-cox-describes-what-inspires-him

The weekend concerts of January 19 to 21, 2017, mark the subscription concert debut of the Minnesota Orchestra's recently appointed Associate Conductor, Roderick Cox. Earlier in January, at a reception in his honor at Minnesota Public Radio, Cox spoke about how he became a conductor, what inspires his work, and his evolving connection to the ensemble. Use the audio player above to listen to Cox's interview with Performance Today host Fred Child.

On Friday, Jan. 20, at 8 p.m., on Classical MPR, you can hear a live broadcast as Maestro Cox conducts one of his favorite works, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, plus Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, for which he and the orchestra are joined by pianist Joyce Yang.