Need a break from the news cycle as you start your Sunday morning?
Join us for Sunday Baroque starting Sunday 05/14/2023 from 5 - 9 am.
Stay in touch with the news, KRPS will still broadcast top of the hour headlines at 5:01, 6:01, 7:01 and 9:01 am Sunday mornings.
What did you Suzanne play? Check out her playlist archives.
Did you miss SB or want to hear this or weeks episodes again? Stream it.
The program is an entertaining mix of both period and modern instruments, familiar and less well known composers, and performers who range from well-established favorites to exciting newcomers.
Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona puts the music in context by sharing tidbits about the music, composers, and performers – just enough to get your attention, because the music mostly speaks for itself.
Whether you’re a musical novice or a knowledgeable insider, you’ll feel welcome, learn something interesting, and feel refreshed and inspired by the sparkling musical selections on Sunday Baroque.
Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music.
She originated the program in 1987 as a local show on WSHU Public Radio in her hometown of Fairfield, CT.
Sunday Baroque has been distributed nationally since 1998, and is currently heard by nearly a half million listeners every week on approximately 267 public radio stations and networks across the United States.
Suzanne is also a classically trained flutist who earned a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance from The University of Connecticut.
She continues to perform frequently as a soloist and chamber musician, and has especially enjoyed collaborating with some her musically talented public radio colleagues in performances for listeners across the country, including in West Lafayette, IN, Phoenix, Cincinnati, Sacramento, Seattle, and Pullman, WA.
In March 2012 and October 2016 she was guest soloist in Guam in partnership with Sunday Baroque station KPRG, and in October 2017, Suzanne and her frequent collaborator, Brenda Moore Miller, performed a recital for Sunday Baroque listeners at the Mendelssohn House Museum in Leipzig, Germany.
Suzanne is also a member of the Sylvan Trio, with pianist Greg Kostraba (a radio colleague) and cellist Josh Aerie.
Their recordings include the 2020 download album, MUSIC FOR FLUTE, CELLO AND PIANO BY WOMEN COMPOSERS, featuring music by Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia, Judith Lang Zaimont, Mel Bonis, and Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee.
When she is not making radio or playing her flute, Suzanne’s hobbies include reading, traveling, running, cooking, and baking.
She is also passionate about the cause of literacy, having been a longtime volunteer tutor, community advisor, and Board member of several adult and child literacy agencies in Cincinnati.
She is currently on the Board of Literacy Volunteers on the Green in New Milford, CT.
