Performance Today®

For his Carnegie Hall debut, PT Young Artist Steven Lin asked a friend to compose something new - but he had one special request. Find out what it was, and hear Lin play music by a friend on Friday's Performance Today.

Our current PT Young Artist in Residence is OK with music competitions - up to a point. On Thursday's Performance Today, Steven Lin will tell us why he believes competitions should never be taken too seriously.

This fall, the PT team spent a week at the Curtis Institute of Music. Come see photos from PT's special musical event at Curtis, which included performances by Curtis students, faculty, and alumni.

Pianist Steven Lin is our latest Young Artist in Residence. While talking with Fred, Steven revealed that while he was a student at Juilliard, he didn't practice all that much. But why? We'll find out on Wednesday's Performance Today.

Listen to in-studio interview with host Fred Child and exclusive musical performances by pianist Steven Lin.

On Tuesday's Performance Today we have a stellar performance by a musical dream team: Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, and Denes Varjon play Schumann's Piano Trio No. 1 in concert in Poland.

Maurice Ravel wrote his Mother Goose Suite as piano pieces for children. But then he realized that fairy tales aren't just for kids, so he turned the music into a lush piece for full orchestra. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert in Hamburg, Germany to hear Ravel's grown-up take on Mother Goose.

Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. Play along on this weekend's Performance Today; see if you can guess the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking.

On Friday's Performance Today, we'll explore the symphonic side of Halloween. Concert highlights will include performances of the "Symphony Fantastique" by Hector Berlioz, Osvaldo Golijov's "Night of the Flying Horses," and music from 21st-century American composer, Jonathan Bartz.