For more than 20 consecutive years now, students from top schools of music around the country have joined us as PT Young Artists in Residence...and not even a pandemic will keep us from doing it again this year! We're thrilled to kick off this year's series with French horn player Lauren Anker.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Robert Schumann: Carnaval Movement 1 and 2 Preambule and Pierrot
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Kirill Gerstein: Imaginary Pictures
Myrios 13

Robert Schumann: Trio No. 3 for violin, cello and piano in G minor, Op. 110
Simone Porter, violin; Raphael Bell, cello; Andrew Armstrong, piano
Seattle Chamber Music Society, Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA

Piano Puzzler: Contestant is Rainer Klauss in Madison, AL

Ethel Smyth: On The Cliffs of Cornwall from The Wreckers
Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra; Dirk Meyer, conductor
DSSO Concert Hall, Duluth, MN

Hour 2

Robert Schumann: Album fur die Jugend, Op. 68 (excerpts)
Daniel Levy, piano
Schumann, Album fur die Jugend, Op. 68; Daniel Levy, piano
Nimbus 5219

Reinhold Gliere: Horn Concerto: Movement 1
Lauren Anker, French horn; Mei Rui, piano
Performance Today Young Artist in Residence Series, Duncan Hall, Rice University, Houston, TX

Charles Griffes: Poem for Flute and Orchestra
Mimi Stillman, flute; Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle; Lorenzo Muti, conductor
Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Carolina Theater, Durham, NC

Verne Reynolds: Partita for Horn and Piano IV. Alla Marcia
Lauren Anker, French horn; Mei Rui, piano
Performance Today Young Artist in Residence Series, Duncan Hall, Rice University, Houston, TX

Robert Schumann: Adagio (from Adagio and Allegro)
Lauren Anker, French horn; Mei Rui, piano
Performance Today Young Artist in Residence Series, Duncan Hall, Rice University, Houston, TX

Alec Wilder: Suite for Horn and Piano: II. Slow and Sweet
Lauren Anker, French horn; Mei Rui, piano
Performance Today Young Artist in Residence Series, Duncan Hall, Rice University, Houston, TX