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Living Composer Highlights

March 26, 2022, 11:00 am

Introductions is a short program this week, since the opera starts at 11:30am Central, half an hour earlier than usual. We’ll take the chance to rebroadcast pieces by living composers from the United States, France and Argentina; as performed by youngsters in the past year.

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Philip Lasser: Vocalise
Brandon Cheng, cello; Elizabeth Vaughan, piano
First broadcast May 8, 2021

Eric Sammut: Variations on Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess
Nathaniel Mathew, marimba
First broadcast December 18, 2021

Andrés Martín: Temperamental
Nicholas Boettcher, double bass; Sooka Wang, piano
First broadcast October 16, 2021

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Meet the Host

Robbie Ellis joined the WFMT team as a part-time presenter in 2015, and started full-time in 2020 as the producer and presenter of Introductions. You can also hear him on air on Sunday afternoons. He's fronted a variety of broadcasts and events for WFMT, including hosting Classical Cabaret from the piano. Originally from Auckland, New Zealand, he has a Composition degree from the University of Auckland School of Music and started in classical music radio at RNZ Concert. Outside of radio, he works as a music director for comedy at theatres like The Second City, iO Chicago, The Annoyance Theater, and ComedySportz; and he's been a teaching artist with Chicago Opera Theater and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Robbie works as an event MC around town; has had compositions played by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, among others; and performs his own comedy songs from the piano.

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