My Name Is: Awadagin Pratt
Pianist Awadagin Pratt is a classical music superstar.
Powerhouse Soprano Pretty Yende has graced the stage of nearly every major opera house in the world.
Trumpet player Stanford Thompson founded the youth music organization Play on Philly.
Clarinetist Mariam Adam fuses the cultural nuances of her Egyptian-Mexican heritage in the music she creates.
Valerie Coleman is the founder, composer and flutist of one of the world's premier chamber music ensembles.
Award-winning conductor Dr. Leslie B. Dunner is the Music Director of the South Shore Opera Company in Chicago, IL.
Clarinetist Anthony McGill is one of the best solo, orchestral and chamber musicians in the world.
Award-winning composer, Jeffrey Mumford is an educator whose works a played extensively all over the world.
Composer and conductor Renee Baker is an accomplished violist and the founding music director of the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project.
Cellist Evan Kahn is Performance Today's Young Artist in Residence. Evan joins Fred Child in the studio for conversation and music by Tchaikovsky, Martinu, George Kahn (Evan's father!), and more.