Introductions | WFMT
Introductions is WFMT’s weekly Saturday morning program that features talented pre-college classical musicians in the Chicago area. Soloists and chamber ensembles perform live in WFMT’s Levin Performance Studio. Large ensembles, including orchestras, choirs, and bands, are recorded at their home venues and broadcast at later dates. The program also features youth music competition winners. While many students who appear on Introductions pursue other careers, some have gone on to study music at some of the most prestigious music schools around the world and pursue careers as professional musicians.
Episodes
We feature four graduating seniors from CYSO: violist Chloe Cohen, horn player Elyse Schlesinger, Kevin Harte on tuba, and Clara Frantzen as both a violinist and composer.
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Today we hear from a CMPI fellow and student at Midwest Conservatory in Schaumburg. Lily plays Brahms, Bach and Wieniawski; plus the Fantasy No. 1 of Japanese composer Ikuma Dan.
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Join us in person at Merit School of Music for this live broadcast - free entry, no reservation required. Jacob Cornejo performs full works by Godard and Muczynski, a flute fantasia by Telemann, and shorter pieces by Ian Clarke and John Rutter.
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We welcome return guest Henry Auxenfans for a feature recital. He's joined by Louis Auxenfans on clarinet and pianist Nathan Canfield for Mozart, Glazunov, Perkinson, Fuchs, Franck and Wieniawski.
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We feature four graduating seniors from CMPI, a program that supports pre-college orchestral musicians from underrepresented backgrounds. Music for flute, viola, cello and clarinet with Jesse Perez, David Roche, Diego Dahle and Sarah Morris.
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Pieces by Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Debussy, Dohnányi, Shostakovich & Casarrubios performed by groups from Merit School of Music and the Music Institute of Chicago Academy.
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All four finalists of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's annual young artists concerto competition, including winner Jeremy Liu, 13 of Naperville, playing the Grieg Piano Concerto.
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Today we hear from violinist Leo Zupko. He performs concerto movements by Sibelius and Mozart, and finishes with music by his father Mischa Zupko, who also plays piano for the recital.
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Today, a live cello recital from Kevin Hernandez, with music by Bach, Rachmaninoff and Cassadó, plus Kevin's father, Belford Hernandez.
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Today is Jeffrey Wang, a piano student of Soo Young Lee. He plays Bach, Mozart, Ravel, Niedermaier and Chopin on the Fay & Daniel Levin Performance Studio Steinway.
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