18 year old pianist James Stinehart of New Trier High School made his solo debut at age 9 with the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra.

The MYA Symphony Orchestra performs Prokofiev’s 5th symphony.

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Thomas Ridgway is a homeschooled senior from Shorewood, IL. He was chosen as a Rising Star by the Friends of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and has performed for the organization in a benefit concert. In addition, he recently performed in the “Stairway to the Stars” concert to benefit more…

**Andrew was not able to join us today due to illness. We will reschedule his performance for later this spring. Instead, today we enjoyed a rebroadcast of a program featuring the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Encore Chamber Orchestra from December, 2011. Andrew Guo, 13, started piano lesson at age 4 and had his first solo more…

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…

[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