Performance Today®

Conductor Roderick Cox is a trailblazer.

Tesfa Wondemagegnehu has been sharing the transformative art of vocal music for more than a decade.

On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra play the world premiere of "Abound" by composer Emily Cooley.

Titus Underwood is the acting principal oboe of the Nashville Symphony.

The final symphony by Jean Sibelius unfolds in a single riveting movement; it's an unbroken, weightless flow of music. On Wednesday's Performance Today, hear the Symphony No. 7 by Jean Sibelius, from a concert in Houston, Texas.

Chi-chi Nwanoku is one of the most highly respected double bassists in the international classical arena.

Jonathan Vinocour earned a degree in chemistry from Princeton and then began working at a hospital. All the while, Vinocour played the viola for fun, as a hobby. How did his hobby develop into his passion and his career? On switching from chemistry to concertos... hear Jonathan Vinocour's story, on Tuesday's Performance Today.

Jessie Montgomery is an accomplished chamber musician, composer and music educator.

On a cold October night in 1893, Peter Tchaikovsky conducted the premiere of his sixth symphony in St. Petersburg, Russia. After the concert, Tchaikovsky gave the piece a nickname; a word that evokes pathos, deep emotional anguish. On Monday's Performance Today, hear the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra perform the "Pathetique" Symphony, the work that Tchaikovsky premiered just nine days before his death.