The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts | WFMT

Sep 11 2024 10 ep. 37 mins 47

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Each week WFMT goes live to the Chicago Cultural Center for concerts with emerging artists from around the world, produced by the International Music Foundation. Some shows offer solo recitals while others feature ensembles. The concerts take place beneath the world’s largest Tiffany-domed ceiling, part of a landmark building that originally housed the Chicago Public Library. The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts are named for British pianist Myra Hess who organized some 1,700 free lunchtime concerts for Londoners during World War II, in the years of nightly air raids.

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Rieko Tsuchida, piano

Sep 11 2024 34 mins

Pianist Rieko Tsuchida performs works by J.S. Bach, Maurice Ravel, Sato Matsui, and Isaac Albéniz live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago. Since making her Carnegie Hall debut in 2011, prize-winning pianist Rieko Tsuchida has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. Ms. Tsuchida made her professional concerto debut in 2011 performing Tcha

Ezra Escobar, cello & Ryan Senger, piano

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Ian Rucker, baritone and Michael Banwarth, piano

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Mackenzie Melemed, piano

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Maxwell Foster and Alex Raineri, piano

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Avery Gagliano, piano

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Anna Han, piano

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Pianist Anna Han received the second prize at the 2023 Naumburg International Piano Competition and first prize at the 2023 National Federation of Music Clubs Competition. She performs her own arrangement of two Robert Schumann pieces and works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Unsuk Chin, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Sergei Prokofiev, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chi