[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…
Archive for January, 2012
17 year old composer Jonas Tarm
Saturday, January 21, 2012 by David Polk
[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…
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, January 14, 2012 by David Polk
[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
Maud Powell String Quartet of the Elgin Youth Symphony
Saturday, January 7, 2012 by David Polk
The Maud Powell String Quartet is the premiere string quartet of the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Music Institute.




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That Kate Lee is a great credit to the Vernon Hills HS. And a credit to all her experiences. Great...