The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts | WFMT
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110 Episodes
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Jake Holtzman, piano
Published: 3/13/2024 -
Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello and Kyle Orth, piano
Published: 3/6/2024 -
Geirþrúður Guðmundsdóttir, cello and Liang-yu Wang, piano
Published: 2/28/2024 -
Parker Van Ostrand, piano
Published: 2/14/2024 -
Sirena Huang, violin and Chih-Yi Chen, piano
Published: 2/7/2024 -
Wynona Wang, piano
Published: 1/31/2024 -
Miriam K. Smith, cello and Julia Siciliano, piano
Published: 1/17/2024 -
John Bitoy, piano
Published: 1/10/2024 -
Byeol Kim, piano
Published: 12/13/2023 -
Julia Yang, cello, and Mika Sasaki, piano
Published: 12/7/2023 -
Amir Ron, piano
Published: 7/12/2023 -
Zachary Good, clarinet, and Daniel Schlosberg, piano
Published: 6/28/2023 -
Olivia Boen, soprano and Shannon McGinnis, piano
Published: 6/21/2023 -
Chelsea Guo, soprano and piano
Published: 6/7/2023 -
Xiting Yang, piano
Published: 5/18/2023 -
Eleni Katz, bassoon and Maxwell Foster, piano
Published: 5/10/2023 -
Sirena Huang, violin and Chih-Yi Chen, piano
Published: 5/3/2023 -
Jiao Sun, piano
Published: 4/26/2023 -
Ria Honda, violin, and Umi Garrett, piano
Published: 4/5/2023 -
Michael Katz, cello & Victor Santiago Asunción, piano
Published: 3/29/2023
Each week WFMT goes live to the Chicago Cultural Center for concerts with emerging artists from around the world, produced by the International Music Foundation. Some shows offer solo recitals while others feature ensembles. The concerts take place beneath the world’s largest Tiffany-domed ceiling, part of a landmark building that originally housed the Chicago Public Library. The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts are named for British pianist Myra Hess who organized some 1,700 free lunchtime concerts for Londoners during World War II, in the years of nightly air raids.