The Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras

Cordelia Fredrickson

The 2026 Final Forte finalist and accompanist Jeff Stanek perform the first movement of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Elgar’s “Salut d’amour” and Cordelia plays the solo piece “”Dissolve, […]

Anita and Julian Graef

The founders of the Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival return to the Midday to fill us in on this summer’s season and to perform works by Stravinsky, Ravel and CPE Bach. […]

Lorenz Fradkin-Annen

The Oregon High School sophomore and 2026 Final Forte finalist stops by the Midday to reprise her performance of the Cadenza and Finale from Dmitri Shostakovich’s dazzling Violin Concerto No. […]

The Griffon String Quartet

Violinists Roy Meyer and Alex Norris, violist Oryann Tsaig, cellist Jesse Nummelin perform Poem by Rebecca Clarke, two movements from William Walton’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, and […]

The Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras

Members of WYSO round out the school year with works for wind quintet and piano quartet by Paul Hindemith, Anton Reicha, Beethoven and Schumann.