Performance Today Features

Watch Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler's Symphony No. 5 at the Berlin Philharmonie.

The 2014 Gilmore Artist Award goes to 28-year-old Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz.

As a high school student in Huntsville, Alabama, Susanna Phillips never once considered a career as an opera singer. A school guidance counselor encouraged her to just apply to a conservatory. So she did. The Juilliard-trained soprano is now appearing on major opera stages all over the world, gracing the pages of Vogue magazine and chatting in the studio with host Fred Child about her surprising, overwhelming success.

Listen to the icons of vocal music give an exclusive interview and performance recorded in our studios.

Listen to Professor Cynthia Johnston Turner discuss her experiments with classical music performance using the latest in wearable technology, Google Glass.

Not your father's plastic recorder. Listen to the interview and the mellifluous sounds of four wooden recorders playing in harmony.

With its potent mix of fury and fear, punctuated with hammering chords and explosive bass drum bangs, the Requiem Mass is one of Verdi's most striking choral works.

Stanford Thompson is the Executive Director of "Play On Philly!," a music education program in Philadelphia. He's also the chair of the National Alliance of El Sistema-inspired Programs. He spoke with Fred Child about music education.

Is it jazz or is it classical music? Listen to the interview and watch a video of his performance

Pianists Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung each have successful solo careers, but when they can, this married couple perform together. They played solos and duets in the PT studio and talked about being each other's best and fiercest critic.