David Aus
Host & ProducerDavid Aus is the host of Sunday Night Jazz and Young Artists Spotlight on KVPR, as well as other special programs featuring the valley's local musicians and artists. He is also a social media and marketing specialist for KVPR. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, David Aus has lived in Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, before arriving in Fresno in 2002. Prior to joining KVPR, he spent many years as an on-air host at KFSR. When not on the air, David is a busy jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator.
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In this episode we join the Bakersfield College Chamber Singers, led by Dr. Jennifer Garrett, on their 2023 European, as they perform a wide range of sacred and secular music for audiences in Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, and Berlin. -
In this episode we feature the Fresno State Wind Orchestra from their recent performance at the annual conference of the Western and Northwestern Divisions of the College Band Directors National Association, held at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts in March 2024. -
This episode features sacred music of Bach, Haydn, Handel, and Schubert. Singers from Fresno Pacific University are joined by several area choirs, along with the Fresno Choral Artists and the San Joaquin Chorale. -
From their Winter Magic concert, recorded December 3, 2023 at Paul Shaghoian Concert Hall in Fresno, Youth Orchestras of Fresno perform Dvořák's Carnival Overture and Beethoven's Symphony No.5 in C minor. -
This week's episode features Youth Orchestras of Fresno's (YOOF) Love Conquers All concert, recorded February 18, 2024 at Paul Shaghoian Memorial Concert Hall in Fresno. -
In the second episode of the 2024 Season of Young Artists Spotlight, Dr. Thomas Loewenheim leads the FOOSA Philharmonic in Dmitri Shostakovich's cinematic Symphony No.11 at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. -
The 2024 season of Young Artists Spotlight opens with the FOOSA Philharmonic, performing Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.5, conducted by Dr. Thomas Loewenheim.
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This episode features the Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra (BYSO), from a concert recorded June 11, 2022 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Fresno, and also pays homage to trumpeter Daniel Edwards, a former member of the BYSO and a past performer on Young Artists Spotlight, who died tragically from COVID in March 2021. We’ll hear Daniel Edwards’ appearance on YAS from March 2009. A centerpiece of the BYSO performance is the world premier of a work commissioned in honor of Daniel Edwards, composed by retired CSUB professor Doug Davis. -
Violinist Xavion is a student at University High School in Fresno. He performs music of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Henri Casadesus, and Vittorio Monti.
