CSO Youth Auditions

Liberace...a winner of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Auditions!

Listen to a clip of Liberace as well as some past winners of the CSO Youth Auditions:


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Listen to the full program:


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Links to the full shows from which the clips were taken:

Gabriel Cabezas (Cello)

Matthew Lipman (Viola)

Susie Koh (Violin)

Laura Park (violin)

Gabe and Matt were also recently featured on a show we did live from Nichols Concert Hall at the Music Institute of Chicago in preparation for their tour to Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in NYC and Washington, DC!

Saturday, March 14, we featured some finalists that we've had on the show from the 2008 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Auditions in anticipation of the 2009 auditions featuring piano. The finals are free and open to the public, in Orchestra Hall on Saturday, March 21 at 1:30pm.

The students we featured today included violinists Susie Koh and Laura Park, violist Matthew Lipman and cellist Gabriel Cabezas.

Other past winners include violinist Rachel Barton Pine:


And Herbie Hancock: