See Hear with Matt Peiken

See Hear with Matt Peiken

Asheville journalist Matt Peiken brings you inside the arts of Western North Carolina.

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Surround Sound: Min Xiao-Fen and the Pursuit Boundless Exploration

October 19, 2026 • 24 mins
Min Xiao-Fen is a classically trained virtuoso of the Chinese stringed instrument called the pipa. But she didn’t find her musical soul until moving first to San Francisco and then New York, where she fell under the tutelage of the famed experimental c...
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Michael Rabinowitz brought his bassoon to jazz and became a first-call player

October 11, 2026 • 22 mins
So many accomplished artists across all disciplines have moved to this region from all over the US, especially during and since the pandemic. One of those is jazz bassoonist Michael Rabinowitz. Even before formally moving into a new house in Marshall, ...
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With 'Hollow Folk,' Andrew Clark stakes his latest claim to Appalachian-flavored psychological horror

October 4, 2026 • 28 mins
Andrew W. Clark was a published poet before he became a published novelist, but in his creative practice, the writing is often born from the same place. Matt Peiken first interviewed Andrew about seven years ago about his poetry. Now they're talking on...
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Classically trained, violinist Christian Howes found his calling to jazz behind bars

September 29, 2026 • 38 mins
To hear him tell it, Christian Howes ( https://christianhowes.com ) once had the world by the strings. He excelled at the violin from the time he was 5 and in high school, he attracted scholarship offers from several prestigious conservatories. But Chr...
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Bridging the transcontinental folk divide: An interview with Julian Svejgaard of Stundom

September 22, 2026 • 24 mins
If you’re a devotee of Appalachian folk, you’ll feel right at home in the seats of a performance by the acclaimed Danish folk trio Stundom. The violin and cittern are central to the music, but so are contemporary flavors brought by pianist Julian Svejg...
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Super Magic: Mike Super infuses his act with a storytelling arc

September 9, 2026 • 23 mins
Like a rabbit out of a hat, Mike Super pulled himself into the national limelight a dozen years ago as a finalist on season 9 of America’s Got Talent. Today, he’s a star magician performing two shows ( https://www.worthamarts.org/events/mike-super-magi...
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Jane Kramer navigates her heart to 'Moon & Mother'

September 2, 2026 • 34 mins
Asheville singer-songwriter Jane Kramer talks with See Hear's Matt Peiken about her personal new album, Moon and Mother, and how it chronicles a profound chapter of her life — becoming a mother while losing her own mother to cancer. Jane talks about na...
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The Outer Limits of Jazz: Jackson-Heinemann Quartet Leans into Exploration, Improvisation

August 25, 2026 • 20 mins
Jakob Heinemann is a double-bassist and Keefe Jackson a reed player who found each other in a fertile Chicago jazz scene and bonded over an appreciation of each other’s compositions and love of improvisation. Heinemann spoke with See Hear’s Matt Peiken...
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Independent Lens: Documentary filmmakers Erin Brethauer + Tim Hussin

August 18, 2026 • 26 mins
Erin Brethauer and Tim Hussin are a filmmaking/photography couple who met in Asheville, worked together in California making intimate documentaries and have returned to Asheville to raise a child and put their professional focus into their production c...
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David Ambrosio: Civil Disobedience Through Jazz

August 4, 2026 • 24 mins
At the height of this country’s fight for civil rights, some of America’s Black jazz artists were composing would-be soundtracks to the movement. Many of the charts and recordings they created for the Blue Note label were lost or forgotten through the ...
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Jazz Between Friends: Ted Nash & Jeremy Walker

June 25, 2026 • 19 mins
From New York jazz clubs to Minnesota art houses, Ted Nash and Jeremy Walker have been friends and collaborators for more than two decades. Nash is a two-time Grammy Award winning saxophonist and a longtime member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestr...
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Old Dog, New Tricks: Brevard Music Center at age 90

June 23, 2026 • 27 mins
If you were to scan the rosters of symphony and chamber orchestras throughout the country and internationally, not to mention the credits of film scores, commercials and anywhere else calling for real classical musicians, you’d likely find one or more ...
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Chris Aluka Berry colors inside the lines

June 21, 2026 • 35 mins
Chris Aluka Berry's intimate photos from within Black Appalachian communities are collected in his first book, Affrilachia: Testimonies. More than 100 photos are interspersed with poetry, along with Aluka’s personal observations through the six years h...
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