LIVE: Susie Lee, 18, piano
Susie is the Principal Pianist in the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and Encore Chamber Orchestra, where she was a finalist in the CYSO Concerto Competition. Susie Lee, 18, is a senior at Neuqua...
View ArticleChicago Youth Symphony in Brahms’s 4th Symphony
The CYSO was invited to perform the opening night concert of the 2014 IMEA Conference in Peoria. In January the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Encore Chamber Orchestra was invited to perform the...
View ArticleRebroadcast: DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers
DePaul Concert Hall Each year, traditional and Suzuki students in piano, violin, viola, cello and flute have the opportunity to audition for the Annual Concerto Festival held in January at DePaul...
View ArticleLIVE: Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago
Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago The Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago join us live in the studio prior to a tour to Alaska and British Columbia. Artistic Director and Conductor: Emily...
View ArticleLIVE: Bone Rangers Trombone Quartet of the Merit School of Music
The members of the Bone Rangers are students at the Merit School’s Tuition-Free Conservatory. The Bone Rangers are the honors trombone quartet of the Merit School of Music’s Alice S. Pfaelzer...
View ArticleAmber Scherer, 17, piano
Amber Scherer has been honored by competitions at the national and even international scale, including the Music Teachers National Association Competition, the Sejong Cultural Society National Music...
View ArticleLIVE: Tabitha Oh, violin
Tabitha Oh is one of the concertmasters of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. Tabitha Oh, 18, is a senior at the University of Chicago Laboratory High School. She studies the violin with Desiree...
View ArticleHighland Park High School Wind Symphony
Highland Park High School Wind Symphony Members of the Highland Park High School band share highlights from the last couple years of performances on this last school year of longtime band director, Dr....
View ArticleLIVE: Make Music Chicago from Nichols Concert Hall
We’ll celebrate Make Music Chicago at Nichols Concert Hall. A special broadcast from the Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston in celebration of Make Music Chicago, a worldwide...
View ArticleLIVE: Max Farbman, 18, marimba
Max was a member of MYA for 6 years, and this year was awarded the Barbara Butler/Charles Geyer Named Merit Scholarship. Max Farbman is 18 years old and began his percussion studies at the age of 13....
View ArticleElgin Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Tribute to Lincoln
The Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra performs a concert for Independence Day. Today we featured the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Randall Swiggum, in a program that paid tribute to Abraham...
View ArticleMerit School’s Bone Rangers from Ravinia’s Martin Theatre
A rebroadcast of our live broadcast from Ravinia’s Martin Theater in July, 2012. Rebroadcast from July, 2012. Introductions presented a live broadcast from Ravinia’s Martin Theatre in Highland Park...
View ArticleKelly Talim, violin
Kelly was invited to be featured in HBO: Masterclass with Joshua Bell.Kelly Talim was born in Japan and started the violin at the age of seven. Now a senior at New Trier Township High School in...
View ArticleFischoff Competition Winners: Quartet Fuoco of Midwest Young Artists
The members of Quartet Fuoco were the 2014 Gold Medalists in the Junior Division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Quartet Fuoco is a chamber ensemble of the Midwest Young Artists...
View ArticleDaniel Kaler, 16, cello
Cellist Daniel Kaler A rebroadcast from February, 2014. Daniel Kaler has won 1st Prize at the University of Illinois Concerto Competition, the Chinese Fine Arts Society competition, the competition of...
View ArticleAnima Young Singers of Greater Chicago
The Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago. A rebroadcast from May, 2014 (listen again here). The Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago joined us live in the studio prior to a tour to Alaska and...
View ArticleMidwest Young Artists Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony
The MYA Symphony Orchestra performed this concert in Orchestra Hall in downtown Chicago. The MYA Symphony Orchestra in the Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Recorded at their...
View ArticleThe Purple Hippopotami Flute Quartet of the Merit School of Music
Today on Introductions our guests are the members of the Purple Hippopotami Flute Quartet of the Merit School of music. This past year, they received an Honorable Mention at the Midwest Young Artists’...
View ArticleLIVE: Pianist Mikowai Ashwill
Mikowai currently studies at the Music Institute of Chicago under Ralph Neiweem and Claire Aebersold. Eighteen-year-old pianist Mikowai Ashwill was born in California. He began his musical studies at...
View ArticleKathryn Chiodo, 18, Flute
Kathryn will be attending Northwestern University in the fall of 2014 majoring in both flute performance and liberal arts. Kathryn Chiodo began playing the flute at the age of ten and has been studying...
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