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It's inspiring to learn about some of the talented young performers who represent the future of classical music. American violinist Elicia Silverstein is a 20-something musician whose career trajectory as a soloist and chamber musician has already taken her across the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel.
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Apollo's Fire founder & director Jeannette Sorrell is a trailblazing leader in the world of early music. In addition to her performing career, Jeannette Sorrell is also a passionate advocate who gives talks on entrepreneurial leadership, women as leaders, and building new audiences for the arts.
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Award-winning British violinist and composer Natalie Klouda enrolled at the Yehudi Menuhin School at age 8. Although her parents were not musicians, she grew up in a home that contained her great-grandfather's piano.
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Composer Anna Clyne, a radical melodist with a painter's eye One of the most performed living composers unpacks the power of melody in her music, her unconventional path to success and how visual art guides her process.
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Born in 1924 in Newark, N.J., Vaughan came up in the '40s, alongside bebop, a new jazz style she instantly took to. In the following decades, she proved to be one of the best singers of any genre.
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British musician Ethel Smyth lived from 1858-1944, and was a composer and conductor. She was also an avid writer and a passionate suffragette. Her compositions include a broad range of genres, including songs, chamber music, operas, sacred music, and keyboard solos.
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Chicago-born musician Vivian Fine (1913-2000) was a child prodigy pianist who wrote her first composition at age 13. The multiple award-winning composer wrote everything from chamber music, to orchestral works, to choral works.
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Dr. Mary Térey-Smith was a Hungarian conductor and musicologist who trained at Liszt Academy in Budapest. She had a long and influential career as a conductor and musicologist.
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Pianist Angela Hewitt has cultivated a reputation as an outstanding interpreter of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The Canadian musician began recording Bach's major keyboard compositions in 1994, and complete the recording cycle in 2005.
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Today's Beautiful Music features three of the Kanneh-Mason sisters -- Isata, Konya, and Jeneba -- playing a three-piano arrangement of the Toccata in F by Johann Sebastian Bach.