"Amplify with Lara Downes" eavesdrops on convivial conversations with today’s leading Black artists.

Corrine Bailey is singer-songwriter and Theaster Gates is an artist, professor and founder of the Rebuild Foundation. Classical California Resident Artist Lara Downes speaks with them both about the importance of preserving Black arts and culture.

Lara Downes Talks with Corinne Bailey Rae and Theaster Gates

Classical California Host and Resident Artist Lara Downs speaks with singer-songwriter and musician Allison Russell about her new record The Returner.

Lara Downes Talks with Allison Russell

Classical California Resident Artist Lara Downes speaks with Linguist John McWhorter about their mutual admiration of composer Scott Joplin and the complex era in which he existed.

Lara Downes Talks with John McWhorter

Classical California Resident Artist Lara Downes speaks to composer, pianist/vocalist, interdisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes about his work called "The Healing Project".

Lara Downes Talks With Samora Pinderhughes

Classical California Resident Artist Lara Downes speaks with pianist Gerald Clayton about the cross-genre influences in his music and how he honors the legacy of musicians that came before him.

Lara Downs Talks with Gerald Clayton

Classical California Resident Artist Lara Downes speaks with Chef Kwame Onwuachi about his new restaurant, Tatiana, inside the recently renovated David Geffen Hall in NYC.

Lara Downes Talks With Chef Kwame Onwuachi

Classical California Resident Artist Lara Downes speaks with American jazz trumpeter and film score composer Terence Blanchard about his opera’s "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" and “Champion”.

Lara Downes Talks With Terence Blanchard

Classical California Resident Artist Lara Downes speaks with composer and violinist Jessie Montgomery about her life and being named 2023 Composer of the Year by Musical America.

Lara Downes Talks With Jessie Montgomery

Classical California Resident Artist Lara Downes sits down with Jazz Singer Samara Joy to talk about her life, work and her recent explosion into the spotlight.

Amplify with Lara Downes: Season 3

"Amplify with Lara Downes" eavesdrops on convivial conversations with today’s leading Black artists.