On this Saturday’s live broadcast, we feature 17 year old clarinetist Torin Bakke, winner of the 2014 Crain-Maling Foundation Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Auditions. Torin began studying the clarinet at the age of 10, because he was too small to play the bassoon. He quickly fell in love with the instrument, which he currently studies more...

On Saturday’s encore broadcast, we feature 14 year old pianist Kimberly Han, an eighth grader at Deer Path Middle School in Lake Forest, Illinois.  Kimberly was just named the winner of the 2015 Crain-Maling Foundation Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Auditions.  As a result, she will perform in a Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Concert during the more...

Our producer Sophia Fedderson followed the members of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra as they toured China in June, 2014. Program: Zhou Long: Rhyme of Taigu Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Mvt. V Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements II. III. John Williams: The Flying Theme from ET the Extraterrestrial On June 12, 2014, members of CYSO’s more...

Today we rebroadcast a program featuring compositions of award-winning composer Jonas Tarm of Highland Park, whose work “Marsh u Nebuttya” or “March to Oblivian” in Ukranian, was supposed to make its Carnegie Hall debut by the New York Youth Symphony this Sunday. The symphony administration pulled the work this week after learning that it includes more...

On today’s encore broadcast from 2010, we feature 16 year old cellist Allan Steele and 18 year old cellist Ben Friend in two very different performances. Steele was an Overall Open Division Winner of the Walgreens National Concerto Competition and won the opportunity to perform with the Midwest Young Artists Symphony Orchestra. Ben Fried, a more...

The DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers was founded in 2003 to provide an opportunity for intermediate level pianists in the Community Music Division to perform with an orchestra. Repertoire was selected from sonatina movements and short piano pieces for which string accompaniments were available. Auditions were held and eight winners were selected to perform more...

Contrapunctus is a string quartet formed through Midwest Young Artists made up of 4 high school seniors from the Chicagoland area: violinist Alan Snow, 17, John Hersey High School, violinist James Hanford, 18, Evanston Township High School, violist Andrea Ferguson, 18, home schooled, and cellist Miles Link, 18, New Trier High School. Contrapunctus is coached more...

Music performed by the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Encore Chamber Orchestra from their October, 2011 concert given at the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium at the Harold Washington Library Center in downtown Chicago. Conducted by music director Allen Tinkham. Program: Pablo de Sarasate:  Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs), Op. 20 featuring violinist Tabitha Oh Sergei Prokofiev:  Sinfonia Concertante, op. more...

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 by Dileep Gangolli, former assistant principal clarinetist more...

Quartet Fuoco is a chamber ensemble of the Midwest Young Artists Chamber Music Program in Highwood, IL. It’s members, all the principal players in MYA’s Symphony Orchestra, are Rachel Stenzel (17) and Aidan Perreault (16), violins; David Berghoff (18), viola; and Chris Gao (17), cello. They are coached by Mathias Tacke and Shmuel Ashkenasi (formerly more...