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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

My Name Is: Valerie Coleman

Valerie Coleman is the founder, composer and flutist of one of the world's premier chamber music ensembles.


Imani Winds performs Valerie Coleman's "Umoja"

Matt Murphy

Petrushka is a character who goes back hundreds of years... an aggressive court jester who is most happy when he's hurting someone. On Wednesday's Performance Today, hear the Houston Symphony perform Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka, a fun and scary puppet show where we don't really know who's pulling the strings.


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Petrushka: far from Sesame Street

My Name Is: Leslie Dunner

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


MARY D. WATKINS: "Soul of Remembrance"

Provided by 3Arts Chicago

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.


Adriane White

Pioneering conductor Marin Alsop

My Name Is: Anthony McGill

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


Pacifica Quartet and Anthony McGill play Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, Second Movement

David Finlayson

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.


Caroline Shaw - composer, violinist, and vocalist

Photo: Kait Moreno

Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte

My Name Is: Jeffrey Mumford

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


Composer Jeffrey Mumford (by: Irene Haupt)

JEFFREY MUMFORD: "through a stillness brightening" for Violin and Ensemble (2011)

Irene Haupt

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.


Fidel Castro with entourage and musicians, ca. 1961

courtesy of Ricardo Lorenz

Dance Unlikely

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.
