Poster Timotheos Petrin
Timotheos Petrin, cello
Nate Ryan
Performance Today®

Meet cellist Timotheos Petrin

Timotheos Petrin is a cellist, and also a painter. For him, the two forms of art are connected. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we talk with PT Young Artist in Residence Timotheos Petrin, and hear him perform music by Gabriel Faure.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Leonard Bernstein: Fancy Free: Three Dance Variations: Danzon and Galop
Nashville Symphony; Andrew Mogrelia, conductor
Bernstein: Fancy Free/Dybbuk
Naxos 559280

Leonard Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes, from 'On the Town'
SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg; Tito Munoz, conductor
20th Heidelberg Spring Festival, Congress House, Stadthalle, Heidelberg, Germany

The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Marc Loudon from New Orleans, Louisiana

Edvard Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Ragnhild Hemsing, violin; Tor Espen Aspaas, piano
Schwetzingen Festival, Jagdsaal, Schwetzingen, Germany

Hour 2

Gabriel Faure: Lady of the Castle in Her Tower
Susann McDonald, harp
Harp Spectacular: Susann McDonald
Klavier 11004

Gioachino Rossini: Overture to 'La gazza ladra' (The Thieving Magpie)
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA

Gabriel Faure: Elegie, Op. 24
Timotheos Petrin, cello; George Fu, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN

Gabriel Faure: Trois Melodies, Op. 7: Movement 1
Timotheos Petrin, cello; George Fu, piano
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Golden Key Suite No. 4, Op. 55d
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Mirga Grazynte-Tyla, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

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