Greg Kostraba has successfully combined a career as a radio professional and concert pianist. At the Fourth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in 2004, Greg’s performances were called “mesmerizing” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) and “boldly hewn” (Dallas Morning News) and garnered him semifinalist status. He has also been featured numerous times nationwide on Performance Today, performing with the Sylvan Trio, flutist Suzanne Bona, violinists Francesca Anderegg and Paul Woodiel, and with the Toledo Symphony conducted by Chelsea Tipton II.

Currently Afternoon Music Host on 89.5 Classical KBACH in Phoenix, Greg previously served as Content Director at WBAA Public Radio from Purdue University, and Classical Music Director and Senior Radio Host at WGTE Public Media in Toledo, where he received the 2007 Ohio Public Broadcasting Award for “Radio Producer of the Year” for the monthly in-studio performance program Live From FM 91. He has also worked at KRPS in Pittsburg, Kansas and WGUC in Cincinnati.

A performer of and advocate for chamber music, Greg’s most recent recording on Kickshaw Records is A Pirate’s Christmas by Rick Sowash with the Sylvan Trio. Also in 2024, Greg released Voyageurs, an album featuring music for clarinet, cello & piano by Rick Sowash performed by the Upland Trio. Previous albums with the Sylvan Trio include Music for Flute, Cello & Piano by Women Composers (Kickshaw Records) and Seasonal Breezes: Five Chamber Works by Rick Sowash (RSP Classics). Other recordings include Trio Quelque Chose (Kickshaw Records); the Toledo Clarinets: Works by Moross, Still, Osborn and Dietz (Cambria Master Recordings), and two recordings of quartets by Rick Sowash (Four Places on the Appalachian Trail and Sir Gawain and the Knight) with members of the Toledo Symphony.

Greg has performed throughout the Midwest, including appearances with orchestras and wind ensembles in Ohio (Toledo, Lima, Perrysburg, and University of Toledo Symphonies), Indiana (Lafayette, Kokomo, Columbus, and Purdue Symphonies & the Purdue Wind Ensemble), and Michigan (Monroe County Community College/Community Band). He has also given solo piano and chamber music performances at Chicago’s Blackstone Library, Montana Public Radio, Arizona Christian University, Toledo’s Rosary Cathedral, the Muskegon Museum of Art, William Grant Still Festival, Wabash College, Ohio State University-Lima campus, Bowling Green State University, Bluffton University, Owens Community College, Adrian College, Oakland University, and St. Joseph’s College in addition to the Great Gallery of the Toledo Museum of Art, the Performing Arts Series at Firelands, Defiance Community Cultural Council Performance Series, the St. Roch Chamber Music Festival in Caseville, MI, the Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society, and Chamber Music Toledo.

Greg founded and served as Executive Director of the Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society in Lafayette, Indiana, and Chamber Music Toledo. He holds masters and doctoral degrees in piano performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a degree in international relations from American University in Washington, DC. He has studied piano and chamber music with Dorothy Bolognini, Alan Mandel, Richard Morris, Richard Fields, and Sandra Rivers, and participated in master classes with pianists Eugene Istomin, Michael Brown, Eugene & Elisabeth Pridonoff, and Tom McDermott as well as members of the La Salle, Audubon, and Tokyo String Quartets.