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Meet Performance Today’s next PT Young Artist, 16-year-old violinist Anais Feller. Host Fred Child and Anais spoke over Zoom, with musical selections recorded for PT at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. Listen now.

Grazyna Bacewicz was a composer in Poland in the mid-20th century. Even during the Second World War, she was part of an underground concert scene. We'll hear a piece she wrote in Warsaw in the middle of 1943 on this episode of Performance Today.

The Silk Road carried trade goods between Europe and China, but it also carried culture and ideas. Join us today and hear music inspired by the Silk Road by Zhao Jiping from a concert in Guiyang, China.

Each year, Performance Today serves schools across the Twin Cities with its Young Artist in Residence Program. Today's virtual PT in the Classroom Music Lesson features PT Young Artist in Residence Anais Feller.

Gloria Chien and Anthony McGill are both as busy as can be; Chien runs three festivals, and McGill is the principal clarinet in the New York Philharmonic. But they still make time to play as a duet. On today’s show, Gloria Chien and Anthony McGill play from the Grand Duo Concertant by Carl Maria von Weber.

Avi Avital was the first mandolin soloist nominated for a classical Grammy. More than 100 contemporary compositions have been written for him, but Avital is also known for his renditions of Baroque pieces. On today's show, Avi Avital plays a concerto by Vivaldi at a recent concert in Oslo, Norway.

We're proud to introduce you to our next 2022 PT Young Artist in Residence: Violinist Anais Feller. Anais recently joined us via Zoom from the Colburn School in Los Angeles. Hear the conversation and music right here!

Meet Performance Today’s next PT Young Artist, 16-year-old violinist Anais Feller. Host Fred Child and Anais spoke over Zoom, with musical selections recorded for PT at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. Listen now.

Each year, Performance Today serves schools across the Twin Cities with its Young Artist in Residence Program. Today's virtual PT in the Classroom Music Lesson features PT Young Artist in Residence Tyler Martin. Watch now.