Mondays at 8:00 pm
Weekly, full-length concerts live from WFMT’s Levin Studio
WFMT’s flagship full-length recital series presents music and conversation performed live from the state-of-the-art Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio. The program draws on the rich community of Chicago-based musicians as well as a roster of renowned international artists visiting the city.
Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues
April 29, 2024
Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues blends the boundaries between classical chamber music, American blues, Indian Carnatic percussion, and virtuosity from many other people and cultures. Louise Frank sits in for Kerry Frumkin as the ebullient harmonica player and composer returns to WFMT with his virtuosic ensemble.
Rachel Barton Pine, violin & Matt Hagle, piano
April 22, 2024
Tune into Live From WFMT to hear Chicago-based international violin virtuoso Rachel Barton Pine in a live concert broadcast with frequent collaborator, pianist Matt Hagle. The program will feature repertoire the duo will perform at the Kennedy Center just a couple days prior.
Imani Winds
April 15, 2024
Fresh off their 2024 Grammy win for their album Passion for Bach and Coltrane, the trailblazing ensemble will perform repertoire spanning from traditional chamber music to newly commissioned works.
Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem, piano duo
April 8, 2024
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.
Galvin Cello Quartet
April 1, 2024
Shortly after forming during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Galvin Cello Quartet captured the Silver Medal at the 2021 Fischoff Competition, and won the Concert Artists Guild’s 2022 Victor Elmaleh Competition. Cellists Sihao He, Sydney Lee, Haddon Kay, and Luiz Fernando Venturelli met as students at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music in the studio of acclaimed pedagogue Hans Jørgen Jensen. ...
Inon Barnatan, piano
March 25, 2024
For this special edition of Live from WFMT, pianist Inon Barnatan performs a selection of Rachmaninoff's most cherished piano works.
Tenor Karim Sulayman with Eighth Blackbird’s Matthew Duvall, percussion and Lisa Kaplan, piano
March 18, 2024
Grammy award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman collaborates with Eighth Blackbird’s founders and co-artistic directors, percussionist Matthew Duvall and pianist Lisa Kaplan. Tune in to Live From WFMT for an evening of eclectic music in spectacular performance.
Cedille Young Artist Competition Finalists: Karisa Chiu, violin & Clare Longendyke, piano with Inah Chiu, piano
March 11, 2024
Cedille Records has been building the careers and legacies of Chicago’s finest classical music performers and composers since the label’s founding in 1989. Tonight, host Kerry Frumkin presents two finalists of Cedille Records’ first Emerging Artist Competition, in 2021. Karisa Chiu, violin, and Clare Longendyke, piano, will each perform a set on this Live From WFMT broadcast.
Michael Stephen Brown, piano
March 4, 2024
Hailed as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers” by the New York Times.
Chamber Music Chicago: Janet Sung, violin & Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
February 19, 2024
As founding artistic director of Chamber Music Chicago, violinist Janet Sung frequently collaborates with prominent artists from Chicago and around the world. For this program she is accompanied by WFMT regular guest Kuang-Hao Huang on piano. Join host Kerry Frumkin for a program featuring music by Rebecca Clarke, Igor Stravinsky, Johannes Brahms, and Karol Szymanowski.
Third Coast Percussion
February 12, 2024
The Chicago-based percussion specializes in contemporary classical music and is known for its touring and Grammy Award-winning recordings.
Sapphire Woodwind Quintet
February 5, 2024
Sapphire is committed to expanding the quintet repertoire by working with living composers as well as arranging works by female composers from previous eras.
Sebastian Knauer, piano
January 29, 2024
Pianist Sebastian Knauer visits WFMT to play a collection of music composed for him by Michael Nyman plus selections by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Grossman Ensemble
January 22, 2024
Featuring the Grossman Ensemble and soprano soloist Kristina Bachrach under the direction of Brad Lubman in a program called Virtuosi at the Edge.
Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
January 15, 2024
Pianist Jorge Federico Osorio has earned international acclaim for his superb musicianship, powerful technique, vibrant imagination, and deep musical passion.
Balourdet Quartet
January 8, 2024
The prizewinning ensemble-in-residence at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music makes its WFMT debut.
Philippe Quint, violin & Jessica Choe, piano with cellist John-Henry Crawford
December 11, 2023
A recital by three virtuosic collaborators.
Conrad Tao, piano
December 4, 2023
Dubbed “the kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music” by New York Magazine, Conrad Tao will perform music by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Gershwin, Todd Moellenberg, and more.
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