Live from WFMT

Jul 01 2024 10 ep. 83 mins 153

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Live from WFMT, the station’s full-length recital series, presents weekly music and conversation from October through June. The program draws on the rich community of Chicago-based musicians as well as a roster of international artists who are visiting the city. Each two-hour program is performed live in WFMT’s state-of-the-art Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.

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Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Jul 01 2024 106 mins

The 2023-24 Live From WFMT season comes to a close with a very special performance by pianist Marc-André Hamelin.Related

International Chamber Artists

Jun 03 2024 82 mins

Tonight Live From WFMT presents International Chamber Artists, one of the premier chamber ensembles from the Chicago area. This live performance holds works by Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), James M. Stephenson, ICA Composer-in-Residence (b. 1969), and Béla Bartók (1881-1945).

Matt Hagle, piano

May 06 2024 88 mins

Pianist Matt Hagle presents the last program in his 3-recital traversal of the complete late piano music of Brahms. This Live From WFMT broadcast will include the Brahms Op. 76 and 119 sets, as well as shorter pieces by Fauré and Schönberg.

Rachel Barton Pine, violin & Matt Hagle, piano

Apr 22 2024 59 mins

Tune into Live From WFMT to hear Chicago-based international violin virtuoso Rachel Barton Pine in a live concert broadcast with frequent collaborator, pianist Matt Hagle. The program will feature repertoire the duo will perform at the Kennedy Center just a couple days prior.

Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem, piano duo

Apr 08 2024 96 mins

For more than four decades, pianists Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem have enjoyed an extensive international career as proponents of music for both piano duet and two keyboards. Kerry Frumkin welcomes the duo back to the Levin Studio for this episode of Live From WFMT.

Galvin Cello Quartet

Apr 01 2024 56 mins

Shortly after forming during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Galvin Cello Quartet captured the Silver Medal at the 2021 Fischoff Competition, and won the Concert Artists Guild’s 2022 Victor Elmaleh Competition. Cellists Sihao He, Sydney Lee, Haddon Kay, and Luiz Fernando Venturelli met as students at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music in the studio of acclaimed ped

Inon Barnatan, piano

Mar 25 2024 81 mins

For this special edition of Live from WFMT, pianist Inon Barnatan performs a selection of Rachmaninoff’s most cherished piano works. Inon’s new album, Rachmaninoff Reflections, includes his own new solo piano arrangement of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. Recorded in November 2023.

Cedille Young Artist Competition Finalists: Karisa Chiu, violin & Clare Longendyke, piano with Inah Chiu, piano

Mar 11 2024 86 mins

Cedille Records has been building the careers and legacies of Chicago’s finest classical music performers and composers since the label’s founding in 1989. Tonight, host Kerry Frumkin presents two finalists of Cedille Records’ first Emerging Artist Competition, in 2021. Karisa Chiu, violin, and Clare Longendyke, piano, will each perform a set on this Live From WFMT broadcast.

Michael Stephen Brown, piano

Mar 04 2024 105 mins

Hailed as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers” by the New York Times, pianist Michael Stephen Brown returns to WFMT’s Levin Studio for this appearance on Live From WFMT.

Chamber Music Chicago: Janet Sung, violin & Kuang-Hao Huang, piano

Feb 19 2024 67 mins

As founding artistic director of Chamber Music Chicago, violinist Janet Sung frequently collaborates with prominent artists from Chicago and around the world. For this program she is accompanied by WFMT regular guest Kuang-Hao Huang on piano. Join host Kerry Frumkin for a program featuring music by Rebecca Clarke, Igor Stravinsky, Johannes Brahms, and Karol Szymanowski.