On Saturday’s broadcast, we present the third of three programs featuring the 2015 Emilio del Rosario Young Artist Piano Concerto Competition.   The competition was held at Symphony Center on June 14, 2015.  Francesco Milioto conducted the New Millennium Orchestra of Chicago. The First Prize Winner, 19 year old Aaron Kurz, will be heard in more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we present the second of three programs featuring the 2015 Emilio del Rosario Young Artist Piano Concerto Competition.   The competition was at Symphony Center on June 14, 2015.  Francesco Milioto conducted the New Millennium Orchestra of Chicago. The Second Prize Winner, 19 year old Yijia Wang, will be featured in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we present the first of three programs featuring the 2015 Emilio del Rosario Young Artist Piano Concerto Competition.   The competition was at Symphony Center on June 14, 2015.  Francesco Milioto conducted the New Millennium Orchestra of Chicago. The Third Prize Winner, Jiaqi (Dragon) Long, will be featured in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we present selections from the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Encore Chamber Orchestra concert at the Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance on December 7, 2014.  The Encore Chamber Orchestra is made up of student musicians from the CYSO who plan to pursue a career in music.  They more...

Gallia Kastner is an 18 year old violinist from Arlington Heights who studied with Almita and Roland Vamos.  She will be attending the Colburn School to study violin with Robert Lipsett this fall.  She commenced her private violin study at the age of five and a half with Betty Haag-Kuhnke.  Gallia has won numerous competitions more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we present the second of two programs featuring the Winner’s Concert from the 2015 Chicago Duo Piano Festival Competition.  Piano duos from across the Chicago area and the Midwest performed on Saturday, May 30 in Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston.  Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem of the Music Institute of Chicago are the Artistic more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we present the first of two programs featuring the Winner’s Concert from the 2015 Chicago Duo Piano Festival Competition.  Piano duos from across the Chicago area and the Midwest performed on Saturday, May 30 in Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston.  Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem of the Music Institute of Chicago are the more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we feature the Lockport Township High School Wind Symphony, another wind ensemble selected by the judges of the 2014 Chicagoland Band Festival at John Hersey High School to appear on Introductions.  The ensemble is directed by Brian Covey. In recent years, the Lockport Wind Symphony has earned consistent Superior Division Ratings at state more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we present the second of two programs featuring the Merit School of Music’s 2015 Performathon, an annual two day music and fundraising extravaganza featuring the students of the Alice S. Pfaelzer Tuition-free Conservatory. This broadcast will feature numerous chamber ensembles that performed on Saturday, February 28, 2015 in Anne and Howard Gottlieb Hall more...

On Saturday’s broadcast, we present the first of two programs featuring the Merit School of Music’s 2015 Performathon, an annual two day music and fundraising extravaganza featuring the students of the Alice S. Pfaelzer Tuition-free Conservatory. Our first broadcast will feature the Merit Wind Symphony in the opening night concert for Performathon on February 27, more...