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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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Hailed by the Washington Post for his “poised and imaginative playing,” pianist Victor Santiago Asunción is also an internationally respected recital collaborator. Victor recently established the American Recital Debut Award as a means to champion the careers of exceptional emerging classical musicians, and to honor the memory of his longtime chamber music partner, the great American cellist Lynn Harrell. On ...
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Pablo Sainz-Villegas has been acclaimed by the international press as the successor of Andrés Segovia and an ambassador of Spanish culture around the world. On November 6, 7, and 8, 2025, he performs Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Riccardo Muti. Pablo Sainz-Villegas returns to the Levin performance studio on this long anticipated edition of ...
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Oboist Oliver Talukder brings a unique blend of cultural influences to the world of classical music. In May 2025, Oliver captured the top prize in Cedille Records’ Emerging Artist Competition, earning a recording contract and the opportunity to release his debut solo album on the internationally acclaimed label. This forthcoming project is more than a personal milestone — it’s a testament ...
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Live From WFMT’s 2025-26 season opens with a special performance by the Miró Quartet.
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Tonight Live From WFMT presents International Chamber Artists. One of the premier chamber ensembles from the Chicago area, ICA features the talents of musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera Orchestra, and beyond. Join host Kerry Frumkin for a program of music by Clara Schumann, Joaquín Turina, Alyssa Morris, Robert Schumann, and ICA Composer-in-Residence, James M. Stephenson.
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On this edition of Live From WFMT, Kerry Frumkin’s guests are Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano, Stephen Alltop, keyboard and Daniel Swenberg, theorbo.
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Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko is the first prize laureate of the 2024 Concours musical international de Montréal, and the winner of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition. This extraordinary young artist makes his Chicago debut with his performance on Live From WFMT.
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Host Kerry Frumkin welcomes the Chicago-based Juliani Ensemble back to the Levin studio for this episode of Live From WFMT. Varied repertoire for this broadcast will include the Beethoven String Quartet No. 11 In F minor, Impresiones de la Puna for flute and string quartet by Alberto Ginastera, a Concertino by Erwin Schulhoff, and the String Quartet No. 8 in ...
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Cultivated right here in Chicago, the Sapphire Woodwind Trio brings together three members of the Sapphire Quintet: Kim Fleuchaus, flute and piccolo; Allison Baker-Wherle, oboe and english horn; and Anna Najoom, clarinet and bass clarinet. As Kerry Frumkin’s guests on Live From WFMT, they will share a varied collection of international repertoire, including a Divertimento by Malcolm Arnold, an instrumental ...
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Praised by The Strad as an “utterly dazzling” artist with “a marvelous show of superb technique,” violinist Danbi Um visits WFMT’s Levin Studio for this Live From WFMT performance. Her collaborator is the highly acclaimed Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen. The duo will share repertoire from their new album, Poème Mystique, which was released on the Avie label in February 2025.
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Kerry Frumkin’s guests on this edition of Live From WFMT are the members of the Audire Quartet: violinists Rong-Yan Tang and Ni Mei, violist Youming Chen, and cellist Ken Olsen. Tune in to hear these members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform the “Lark” Quartet, Op. 64, No. 5 by Haydn, and the String Quartet No. 13 in Bb major, ...
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Tonight Live from WFMT presents The Lincoln Trio. Described by STRAD Magazine as “Sensational” “Bewitching” and “Models of vibrancy and control” (GRAMOPHONE Magazine), the celebrated GRAMMY nominated Chicago-based Lincoln Trio formed in 2003 and have been praised for their polished presentations of well-known chamber works and their ability to forge new paths with contemporary repertoire. The group’s reputation as a ...
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In this Live From WFMT archive broadcast from 2022, cellist Alexander Hersh and pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion play music by Debussy, Britten, Schumann, and Fazıl Say.
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December 16, the anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, is something of an annual holiday around WFMT. Pianist Matt Hagle celebrates the occasion with a selection of works by the beloved composer, including some sonatas and bagatelles.
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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 that first aired in April 2024.
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Praised as “a superb pianist and also an eloquent and insightful music writer” (The Boston Globe) with “impeccable taste and a formidable technique” (The New Yorker), Jonathan Biss is Kerry Frumkin’s guest on this edition of Live From WFMT.
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Live From WFMT presents a recital by pianist Samantha Cho, San Francisco Symphony violinist Florin Parvulescu, and Houston Symphony principal cellist Amos Yang. Join host Kerry Frumkin for a program featuring music by Lili Boulanger, Claude Debussy, Germaine Tailleferre, and Gabriel Fauré.
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The 2023-24 Live From WFMT season comes to a close with a very special performance by pianist Marc-André Hamelin.Related
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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).
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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.
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