Performance Today Features

Le Pont Mirabeau: New music by Wang Jie, composed during PT's 2018 musical tour of Paris and Normandy.

Violinist Maria Ioudenitch is Performance Today's Young Artist in Residence. Maria joins Fred Child in the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser studio in St. Paul, Minnesota. Learn more about Maria Ioudenitch and hear her perform music by Tchaikovsky, Clara Schumann, Sarasate, and more.

Violinist In Mo Yang is Performance Today's Young Artist in Residence. In Mo joins Fred Child in the studio for conversation and music, and you can hear it all here!

Chiquinha Gonzago established a career for herself as a professional musician in nineteenth century Brazil at a time when it was widely considered scandalous to do so.

Anne Midgette is the classical music critic for the Washington Post, reviewing concerts and the role that music plays in our culture.

Mei-Ann Chen is one of the very few female conductors leading an American orchestra. She has helped to establish the Chicago Sinfonietta as the the nation's most diverse orchestra. Performance Today host Fred Child sat down with Mei-Ann Chen to learn how this once-shy violinist became a cutting-edge leader.

Dame Ethel Smyth was one of England's most successful turn-of-the-century composers.

Composer Fanny Hensel is considered to be one of the most important composers of the romantic era.

We recently started tracking how many pieces of music on our program were composed by, performed by or conducted by women. The numbers made it clear: women are underrepresented. Performance Today wants to change that.

Join host Fred Child for in-studio interviews with guitarist Thomas Viloteau, as well as exclusive musical performances.