On Saturday’s broadcast, we feature some recordings of piano highlights from the past year as performed by talented pre-college musicians from the Chicago area.
Piano Highlights

Piano keys (Photo: Elliott Billings, CC BY 2.0, cropped, via Flickr)
Playlist
“Valley of Obermann” from Années de pèlerinage (Première année: Suisse), by Franz Liszt
16-year-old Xiaoping Wang, piano
Liebeslied, by Fritz Kreisler, arr. Sergei Rachmaninoff
16-year-old Xiaoping Wang, piano
Reflections, by Emily Bear
16-year-old Emily Bear, piano
Ol’ Man River, by Jerome Kern, arr. Daniel Souvigny
17-year-old Daniel Souvigny, piano
Transcendental Etude, Op. 11 No. 10, “Lezghinka,” by Sergei Lyapunov
18-year-old Derek Chung, piano