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American Public Media’s Performance Today® is America’s most popular classical music radio program and a winner of the 2014 Gabriel Award for artistic achievement. The show is broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations across the country, including at 1 p.m. central weekdays on Minnesota Public Radio. More information about our stations can be found at 

Hosted by Valerie Kahler, Performance Today® features live concert recordings that can’t be heard anywhere else, highlights from new album releases, and in-studio performances and interviews. Performance Today® is based at the APM studios in St. Paul, Minnesota, but is frequently on the road, with special programs broadcast from festivals and public radio stations around the country.

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Valerie Kahler

Kathryn Slusher is the senior producer of Performance Today, where she leads programming and production for the show. In her spare time, she enjoys the vibrant Twin Cities music and theater scene, and loves to read, hike and spend time with her family.


Senior Producer

Kathryn Slusher

As a Producer for Performance Today, Meghann chooses music to broadcast on the show, writes web articles and scripts, facilitates, conducts and edits interviews, creates video content and manages PT’s social media pages. She created Performance Today’s Black History Spotlight Series and the My Name is Series to highlight Black classical musicians. Meghann is also the producer for the PT Young Artist in Residence Series. In her free time, she is a mom, a part-time actress and fashion lover.

Meghann also created and hosted “Wondrous Strange”, a national radio program about uncommon musical instruments, she is the official underwriting voice for ‘The New York Times’ The Daily, and she can occasionally be heard guest-hosting Performance Today.


Producer

Meghann Oglesby

As an Associate Producer for Performance Today, Kathleen Bradbury writes scripts and assists with external communications. In her spare time, she likes to read fiction, lift heavy weights at the gym, and frolic about in nature. But above all else, Kathleen loves to sing Broadway showtunes--much to the delight of her wife, her infant son, and her rescue dog.


Kathleen Bradbury

Jon Gohman is an associate producer for Performance Today. He is responsible for various behind-the-scenes functions, including liaising with artists and creating materials for national distribution. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, playing the guitar, and thinking about Langrange points.


Associate Producer

Jon Gohman

Craig Thorson is the Technical Director for Performance Today. In addition to mastering the live music recordings that are programmed for each daily program, he records guest performances and interviews. Craig enjoys skiing, tennis, and bicycling, and boating.


Technical Director

Craig Thorson

Jeanne Barron is the technical producer of Performance Today.


Technical Producer

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Jeanne Barron

American Public Media’s Performance Today® is America’s most popular classical music radio program and a winner of the 2014 Gabriel Award for artistic achievement. The show is broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations across the country, including at 1 p.m. central weekdays on Minnesota Public Radio. More information about our stations can be found at APM Distribution. 


Dani Werner

Bonus Puzzler: Anthony McGill

Anthony McGill is principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic. In this special online-only Puzzler, he joins Fred and Bruce Adolphe in the studio to take a crack at our weekly musical game.


Freds Favorites

Aaron Copland was from Brooklyn. He was a city slicker who captured -- and to a certain degree, created -- what we think of as the sound of the old American West. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear selections from his cowboy ballet, "Billy the Kid."


Performance Today®

The sound of the American West

The Chinese lute, or pipa, has been around for more than two thousand years. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet perform a modern piece written for this ancient instrument.


Modern music for an ancient instrument

Concerts where the electricity was rippling from the stage. Moments of intense musical drama. Astonishing virtuosity, ethereal serenity, and most of all, beauty. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll look back at musical highlights from the past year.


A look back at 2016

Concerts where the electricity was rippling from the stage. Moments of intense musical drama. Astonishing virtuosity, ethereal serenity, and most of all, beauty. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll look back at musical highlights from the past year.


Musical highlights from 2016

Leonard Slatkin says conducting gives him a sense of great power and at the same time, a feeling of helplessness. On Thursday's Performance Today, Slatkin joins us to talk about the curious art of conducting. Plus, we'll hear him lead this performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 4. in concert in Warsaw.


Leonard Slatkin on conducting

Franz Schubert wrote a fantasy so demanding and difficult that he himself was unable to play it. Never fear - we'll hear from a pianist who can! On Wednesday's Performance Today, Juho Pohjonen gives a virtuosic performance of the Wanderer Fantasy in concert at the Music@Menlo Festival.


Schubert's demanding Wanderer Fantasy

Pianist Martha Argerich and violinist Gidon Kremer are both classical music superstars They've been playing together for decades, and they still enjoy playing together - partially because they continue to surprise each other. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Argerich and Kremer in concert in Berlin.


Martha Argerich and Gidon Kremer

The Chinese lute, or pipa, has been around for more than two thousand years. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear a 21st century composition for pipa performed by Wu Man and the Buffalo Philharmonic.


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