Performance Today®

Award-winning conductor Dr. Leslie B. Dunner is the Music Director of the South Shore Opera Company in Chicago, IL.

In 2007, Marin Alsop was named Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony... the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. On Tuesday's Performance Today, join us for conversation with Marin Alsop, then hear a Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performance of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

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

In 2013, at the age of 30, Caroline Shaw won the Pulitzer Prize for music. Her ambition and expressive ability as a composer have only continued to grow. On Monday's Performance Today, hear the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra perform new music by Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte for String Orchestra.

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

There's a photo from 1961, with the young Fidel Castro sitting at a table in a restaurant with his entourage, with four musicians standing behind them. The photo inspired Ricardo Lorenz to compose a work of music that steps along the border of lively dance music and bleak tension. Hear the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra perform the world premiere of Dance Unlikely (Baile Improbable), on this weekend's Performance Today.

There's a photo from 1961, with the young Fidel Castro sitting at a table in a restaurant with his entourage, with four musicians standing behind them. The photo inspired Ricardo Lorenz to compose a work of music that steps along the border of lively dance music and bleak tension. Hear the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra perform the world premiere of Dance Unlikely (Baile Improbable), on Friday's Performance Today.

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

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson feels that Frederic Chopin was a brilliant intellect, but he thinks Chopin's music is more about visceral feeling than intellectual understanding. On Thursday's Performance Today, hear Ohlsson perform a Chopin scherzo from a concert in Fort Worth, Texas.