Performance Today Features

Clarinetist Anthony McGill is one of the best solo, orchestral and chamber musicians in the world.

Award-winning composer, Jeffrey Mumford is an educator whose works a played extensively all over the world.

Composer and conductor Renee Baker is an accomplished violist and the founding music director of the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project.

Cellist Evan Kahn is Performance Today's Young Artist in Residence. Evan joins Fred Child in the studio for conversation and music by Tchaikovsky, Martinu, George Kahn (Evan's father!), and more.

Le Pont Mirabeau: New music by Wang Jie, composed during PT's 2018 musical tour of Paris and Normandy.

Violinist Maria Ioudenitch is Performance Today's Young Artist in Residence. Maria joins Fred Child in the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser studio in St. Paul, Minnesota. Learn more about Maria Ioudenitch and hear her perform music by Tchaikovsky, Clara Schumann, Sarasate, and more.

Violinist In Mo Yang is Performance Today's Young Artist in Residence. In Mo joins Fred Child in the studio for conversation and music, and you can hear it all here!

Chiquinha Gonzago established a career for herself as a professional musician in nineteenth century Brazil at a time when it was widely considered scandalous to do so.

Anne Midgette is the classical music critic for the Washington Post, reviewing concerts and the role that music plays in our culture.

Mei-Ann Chen is one of the very few female conductors leading an American orchestra. She has helped to establish the Chicago Sinfonietta as the the nation's most diverse orchestra. Performance Today host Fred Child sat down with Mei-Ann Chen to learn how this once-shy violinist became a cutting-edge leader.