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Couperin, Taylor, and Schumann

August 7, 2018, 10:00 pm

Haochen Zhang and friends perform Schumann’s masterful Piano Quintet, and pianist Juho Pohjonen plays eighteenth century music by Francois Couperin. Host Kerry Frumkin also presents the FLUX Quartet and their premiere performance of Phil Taylor’s Festival commission.

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Vingt-septième ordre from Pièces de clavecin (Book 4), by Couperin
Juho Pohjonen, piano

of embers and aspen leaves (String Quartet No. 2), by Phil Taylor
FLUX Quartet

Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, by Schumann
Haochen Zhang, piano; Martin Beaver & Owen Dalby, violin; Ida Kavafian, viola; Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello

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Meet the Host

Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT. His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.

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Couperin, Taylor, and Schumann

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