Introductions is on hiatus today as WFMT instead features live coverage of Performathon 2012 from the Merit School of Music from 9AM until 12PM. Hosted by Steve Robinson and David Polk. Performathon is Merit’s annual showcase of students from its Alice S. Pfaelzer Tuition-Free Conservatory in 12 hours of non-stop classical, big band, jazz blues more…

Replays on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 10:00 pm

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The 2012 All-State Honors Orchestra concert of the Illinois Music Educators Association’s annual conference in Peoria. The IMEA is the largest fine arts education organization in Illinois, and this concert features some of the most advanced high school orchestral students in the state. Students practiced last summer for more…

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Roger Shen, 13, is a 7th grader at Northbrook Junior High in Northbrook, IL. Roger loves classical music and began to learn piano at the turn of age 7. His current teacher is Sueanne Metz. Among the awards, all in Junior Division, he won the 1st prize winner more…

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Triumvirate is a piano-viola-clarinet trio of the Midwest Young Artists chamber program, and they have been playing together for one year. Under the directorship of Dr. Allan Dennis, MYA provides over 900 young artists with music education for jazz, orchestra, chamber, and theory. The group is coached more…

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The second of two programs featuring Highland Park High School senior Jonas Tarm. This week, we’ll hear some of Jonas’s award-winning original compositions. In November, we featured him in a violin recital featuring music by Beethoven, JS Bach, Rachmaninoff and Estonian composer Heino Eller and you can listen more…

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Music from the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra’s November 2011 performance at Orchestra Hall in downtown Chicago, conducted by music director Allen Tinkham. Program: Samuel Barber:  Second Essay, op. 17 Richard Strauss:  Don Juan, op. 20 Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, op. 54

The Maud Powell String Quartet is the premiere string quartet of the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Music Institute.

Music performed by the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Encore Chamber Orchestra from their October, 2011 concert given at the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium at the Harold Washington Library Center in downtown Chicago.

*Program runs from 10:30am to 11:00am to the Metropolitan Opera’s live 11AM broadcast of Donizetti’s La fille du régiment. We’ll listen to a sampling of some of the many holiday albums that youth ensembles from the Chicago area have released over the last several years.

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] A senior at James B. Conant High School in Hoffman Estates, Wonjin Hahn is a scholarship recipient and member of the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy program where he studies piano with MIC artist faculty member Alan Chow. Wonjin has studied in the United States, South Korea, and more…