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Marc-André Hamelin, piano

April 7, 2025, 8:00 pm

Marc-André Hamelin (Photo: Sim Canetty-Clarke)

Tonight, Live From WFMT presents a treasured favorite from July 1, 2024. That’s when pianist Marc-André Hamelin performed the Second Piano Sonata of Charles Ives, Forest Scenes by Robert Schumann, and Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel. (Rebroadcast)

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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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Marc-André Hamelin, piano