On Saturday’s broadcast, we feature 14 year old pianist Alice Zhang. Alice attends Vernon Hills High School. She began studying piano with Brenda Huang at age four. Alice is an active performer and competitor locally and nationally. She won Second Prize in the G. Gershwin International Music Competition Young Artist Category ages 13 to 18 in New more...

On Saturday’s live broadcast, we present two chamber ensembles from the Merit School of Music. On February 26 and 27, the school will be presenting its annual Performathon, a free marathon fundraiser for the Alice S. Pfaelzer Tuition-Free Conservatory.  Numerous chamber and large ensembles from the West Loop school participate, and WFMT listeners will be more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we present the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra’s (CYSO) performance at Symphony Center from their November 22, 2015 concert. Highlights include works by Bernstein, Arutiunian, and Prokofiev. For more information about the CYSO, please click here.           Program: Tuning Up, Edgard Varèse (orchestrated by Chou Wen-Chung)   Three Dance more...

Sofiya Kyrylyuk was born June 7th, 1999 in Bucha, Ukraine. At the age of four, she moved to the United States and began studying violin a year later. She added viola to her priorities when she was twelve. Sofiya’s previous teachers include Stefan Hersh (professor at Roosevelt University), Alexander Belavsky (violinist at Lyric Opera), and more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we are thrilled to feature one of the first performers on Introductions, pianist Kate Liu. Kate Liu began playing the piano at the age of four. Two years later, she was admitted to the Yamaha Music School for gifted musicians in Singapore, and at age eight, Kate moved with her family to the more...

On the first half of Saturday’s broadcast, we present the second of two programs featuring winners from the 2015 DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers.  This annual competition gives young musicians the opportunity to perform movements of a concerto with the Oistrakh Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mina Zikri. On the second half of the program, more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we present the first of two programs featuring winners from the 2015 DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers.  This annual competition gives young musicians the opportunity to perform movements of a concerto with the Oistrakh Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mina Zikri. Program: Violin Concerto in e minor, Op. 64, Felix Mendelssohn more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we feature 14 year old violinist Rabia Mohammadi. Rabia has been  studying violin since the age of three. She has studied with Lei Hou of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Olga Kaler of DePaul University. Presently, she studies with violinist Alexander Belavsky of the Lyric Opera Orchestra of Chicago. She also studies piano more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we begin by featuring two winners from the Midwest Young Artist’s 2015 Walgreens Concerto Competition: Alice Zhang performing the second movement, Larghetto, from Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in f minor, Op. 21 and Daniel Kaler performing the first movement, Allegro, from Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in b minor, Op. 104. These selections were performed more...

Fifteen year old Joshua Brown studies violin with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago’s (MIC) Academy, a rigorous precollege training program for young musicians.  Joshua is a Rachel Barton Pine scholarship winner (2014/15) and an Academy Laureate (2015/16). This past summer, Joshua was awarded both Second Place and the Audience Award more...