Jacqueline Halbloom
Classical Music HostJacqueline Halbloom, now in her 20th year in classical public radio, currently serves as Iowa Public Radio’s producer and host of Symphonies of Iowa, Performance Iowa, The Steinway Café, and The Iowa Arts Showcase. In addition to her on-air duties, before taking on producer and host duties of IPR’s Steinway Café and IPR’s Iowa Arts Showcase, Jacqueline served on the Friends board of UNI’s Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center. A true lover of music and public radio, Jacqueline tries to be a great advocate for the fine arts in Iowa.
She brings to her work a background both practical and theoretical: Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Music Education, which she used as a teacher of orchestra students. As a player, she performed in the viola section of the Eugene Symphony, the Des Moines Symphony, and the Cedar Rapids Symphony (now known as Orchestra Iowa). She is adequately familiar with the numerous slanders against the viola versus the violin. (Why is a viola more useful than a violin? Being larger, it burns longer). Even after many bad jokes, Jacqueline remains positive about music and public radio’s ability to enrich the lives of all who listen. You can contact Jacqueline at jhalbloom@iowapublicradio.org.
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Sokolowski starred as The Prince in Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges during DMMO's 2023 season.
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A unique performance of a whimsical opera by Mozart is happening at the Des Moines Civic Center March 5-6, to open the Des Moines Metro Opera's 50th anniversary season.
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The 2021 All-State Music Festival was broadcast on Thanksgiving Day, Thurs., Nov. 25 from Hilton Coliseum. A second broadcast of the concert is scheduled for Sun., Dec. 19 on Iowa PBS.
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Iowa Public Radio’s 2021 Opera In October series showcases five diverse and exciting opera performances produced and recorded in Iowa. Listen online at iowapublicradio.org or on your favorite IPR Classical radio frequency Saturday evenings at 8 or Sunday afternoons at 4!
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Saturday night at 7 p.m., Orchestra Iowa returns to the front lawn of Brucemore Mansion in Cedar Rapids, under their music director and conductor Tim Hankewich.
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The 2021 season for Cedar Valley Chamber Music opens Saturday, July 24. Artistic Director Hunter Capoccioni says the group is using the last year of cancelled performances to inspire a theme: imaging a world without.
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The Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO) is honoring their brilliant and beloved founder, Robert L. Larsen at the Des Moines Civic Center on Sunday evening, July 25, at 7:30 p.m.
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Saturday, July 25, the DMMO is honoring the life of founder and longtime director Robert Larsen with a free concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Des Moines Civic Center.
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The Suffragist opens this July 16 with five performances at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on the UNI campus in Cedar Falls.
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Iowa Public Radio Classical will be broadcasting our 18th annual production of the Des Moines Symphony’s Yankee Doodle Pops concert on July 4 at noon and July 5 at 11 a.m.
