Celebrate Chicago’s vibrant classical music scene.
Music in Chicago gives you a front-row seat to some of the best classical music concerts presented throughout the Chicago area. Every day in the noon hour, Lisa Flynn features recent performances from the city’s soloists, orchestras, choirs, bands and chamber ensembles. The Elgin Symphony Orchestra, St. Charles Singers, Rachel Barton Pine, Civic Orchestra, Midwest Mozart Festival, and Chicago Latino Music Festival are among the many artists and organizations that have been heard on this weekday program.
WFMT is always looking for new groups and musicians to feature on Music in Chicago. If you or your ensemble would like to be considered for our program, audition online to let us know more about you and to send us a recording.
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May 22 – May 26, 2023
May 26, 2023
Join us this week for performances by Constellation Men's Ensemble, Haymarket Opera Company, Ariel Horowitz and Alexa Stier, Marcel Worms, and the Chicago Sinfonietta in music of Jessie Montgomery.
May 15 – May 19, 2023
May 19, 2023
This week on WFMT's Music in Chicago, we will feature the following artists: the Dover Quartet, Axiom Brass, pianist Xiting Yang, violinist Gina DiBello, and pianist David Schrader.
May 8 – May 12, 2023
May 12, 2023
This week's Music in Chicago schedule begins with the music of Shawn E. Okpebholo. We'll also hear performances by the Chicago Arts Orchestra and Chorus, pianist Winston Choi, and Artemis Chamber Brass. Bassoonist Eleni Katz and pianist Maxwell Foster perform on Wednesday's Dame Myra Hess Concert.
May 1 – May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023
Here's what we have in store on this week's lineup of Music in Chicago: Trio Settecento, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass, violinist Sirena Huang and pianist Chih-Yi Chen on the live Dame Myra Hess Concert, Camerata Chicago, and the Chicago Harp Quartet.
April 26 – April 28, 2023
April 28, 2023
Music in Chicago resumes this week with a live recital by pianist Jiao Sun in the Dame Myra Hess Concerts. On Thursday, we hear the Oriana Singers in music from the Renaissance, and Friday's Live from WFMT encore is a performance from 2012 by cellist Lynn Harrell.
April 3 – April 7, 2023
April 7, 2023
This week on Music in Chicago features performances by the Avalon String Quartet, St. Charles Singers, violinist Ria Honda and pianist Umi Garrett, Millar Brass Ensemble, and Chicago a cappella.
March 27 – March 31, 2023
March 31, 2023
This week on Music on Chicago, join us for performances by bassoonist David McGill, the Chicago Gargoyle Brass and Organ Ensemble, cellist Michael Katz and pianist Victor Santiago Asunción from the Dame Myra Hess Concert, pianist Jorge Federico Osorio, and guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas.
March 20 – March 24, 2023
March 24, 2023
Join us this week on Music in Chicago to hear clarinetist John Bruce Yeh, guitarist Brandon Acker, Meghan Bennett and Maria Lyapkova from the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series, the Chicago Choral Artists, and the Galvin Cello Quartet.
March 13 – March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
Join us this week on Music in Chicago to hear pianist Koeun Grace Lee, Music of the Baroque, pianist Christine Wu, the Cavatina Duo, and the vocal ensemble Stile Antico.
March 6 – March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023
Our featured artists this week on Music in Chicago include cellist Wendy Warner, the Sapphire Woodwind Quintet, pianist Ariel Lanyi, guitarist Christopher Laughlin, and flutist Marina Piccinini with Clarice and Sérgio Assad.
February 27 – March 3, 2023
March 3, 2023
This week on Music in Chicago, we'll feature the Chicago Harp Quartet, Chicago a cappella, pianist Chelsea Wang in the live Dame Myra Hess Concert, a performance from the 2023 Winter Chamber Music Festival, and the piano duo of Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem.
February 20 – February 24, 2023
February 24, 2023
Coming up this week, we'll feature violinist Rachel Barton Pine, guitarist Denis Azabagić, the Isidore String Quartet, a live recital by violinist Caitlin Edwards and pianist Daniel Schlosberg, and an encore broadcast with pianist Zoltán Fejérvári.
February 13 – February 17, 2023
February 17, 2023
Join WFMT this week to hear horn soloist Jonathan Boen, the EStrella Piano Duo, a live recital with pianist Sara Davis Buechner and the Kontras Quartet, a performance from the 2023 Winter Chamber Music Festival at Northwestern University, and an encore broadcast by the early music ensemble Black Tulip.
February 6 – February 10, 2023
February 10, 2023
Join us this week as we enjoy performances by Fifth House Ensemble, pianist Anthony Molinaro, Trio Gaia, Alex Klein and Rita Costanzi, and an encore broadcast of Live from WFMT.
January 30 – February 3, 2023
February 3, 2023
Coming up this week, we'll feature recordings by harpsichordist Jory Vinikour, violinist Robert Chen, and Gaudete Brass. Also tune in for the Dame Myra Hess Concert on Wednesday and an encore broadcast of the Live from WFMT series on Friday.
January 23 – January 27, 2023
January 27, 2023
On Music in Chicago this week, listen to a new album by the Blue Violet Duo, recordings by the Northwestern University Cello Ensemble and saxophonist Julian Velasco, a live recital by the Borisevich Duo, and a 2004 performance of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet featuring Anthony McGill.
January 16 – January 20, 2023
January 20, 2023
This week, we'll hear the Chicago Sinfonietta in music honoring Martin Luther King Day, the vocal ensemble Chicago Chorale, duo pianists Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem, a live Dame Myra Hess Concert by pianist Chris Reynolds, and M5 Mexican Brass in a performance from 2017.
January 9 – January 13, 2023
January 13, 2023
This week's schedule of local artists begins with flutist Mary Stolper. We'll also hear Constellation Men's Ensemble, the duo of Vadim Repim and Angela Yoffe, a live recital by pianist Claire Huangci, and an encore broadcast of Benjamin Hochman's 2009 performance on Impromptu.
January 2 – January 6, 2023
January 6, 2023
This week, we highlight performances by pianist Daniel Schlosberg, flutist Jennie Oh Brown, and the Calidore String Quartet. We'll also feature music by Chicago composer Stacy Garrop and take you downtown for a live recital on Wednesday in the Dame Myra Hess Concerts.
December 26 – December 30, 2022
December 30, 2022
Join us this week for recordings by these Chicago musicians: Black Oak Ensemble, Janet Sung, Aznavoorian Duo, and Bella Voce. We'll also feature an encore broadcast of a 2016 Impromptu with guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas.
