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. On this episode of Performance Today, we continue this year's series with cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins. Plus, Bruce Adolphe has this week’s Piano Puzzler!

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Valerie Coleman: Concerto for Wind Quintet Movement 1: Afro
Imani Winds
Album: The Classical Underground
Koch International Classics 7599

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, Allegro moderato
Nikita Mndoyants, piano
The Cleveland Orchestra | Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Cleveland International Piano Competition, Severance Hall, Cleveland, OH

Piano Puzzler
This week’s contestant is Anne Nelson from Portland, Maine

Jason Moran: Cane
Imani Winds
UChicago Presents, Performance Hall, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Hour 2

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings and Continuo in G Major
Israel Chamber Orchestra
Album: Vivaldi Collection: String Symphonies, Vol.III
Music Masters 67096

Domenico Gabrielli: Ricercar VI in G major
Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello
PT Young Artist  in Residence Series, Black Box Theatre, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA

Fanny Mendelssohn: Sonata o Fantasia in G minor H-U 238
Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello | Feng Niu, piano
PT Young Artist  in Residence Series, Black Box Theatre, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in B-flat Major for Violin, Oboe, Strings & Basso Continuo, RV 548
Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon, conductor
University of Georgia, Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, GA

Igor Stravinsky: Suite Italienne (after Pulcinella, trans. w/ Gregor Piatigorsky) Mvts 1-3
Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello | Feng Niu, piano
PT Young Artist  in Residence Series, Black Box Theatre, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA