LIVE | Elinor Detmer, 17, violin

Live once again with another Vamos student: 17-year-old violinist Elinor Detmer presents Beethoven, Bach, Perkinson, Gershwin, and Sibelius in this recital direct from the Rhapsody Theater on Morse Avenue in Chicago. Milana Pavchinskaya joins her on piano. Elinor Detmer, 17, is a scholarship Fellow at the Music Institute of Chicago Academy, a training center for advanced pre-college musicians. She studies violin with Almita Vamos and Davis King. She was recently awarded first prize in the 2022 Stanger Young Artists Concerto Competition and named a YoungArts Merit Winner in Classical Music. She also won first place in the DePaul Concerto Festival, the Peoria Symphony Young Artist Competition, and the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest Competition in 2021. She has won numerous awards with her chamber group, the Omaggio String Quartet, including the Bronze and Audience awards at the St. Paul String Quartet Competition. Elinor has studied piano with Ms. Angela Wright for 14 years and received a high school performance diploma and the Paderewski Gold Medal from the National Guild of Piano Teachers. Elinor is in 12th grade and is home-schooled. In addition to her musical interests, she loves reading, gardening, dancing, and travel. Playlist Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D, Op. 12, No. 1: I. Allegro con brio Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003: I. Grave Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Louisiana Blues Strut George Gershwin arr. Jascha Heifetz: Porgy & Bess: Summertime A Woman is a Sometime Thing Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47: I. Allegro moderato Elinor Detmer, violin; Milana Pavchinskaya, piano Some music is removed from the podcast version for copyright reasons.

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Introductions is WFMT’s weekly Saturday morning program that features talented pre-college classical musicians in the Chicago area. Soloists and chamber ensembles perform live in WFMT’s Levin Performance Studio. Large ensembles, including orchestras, choirs, and bands, are recorded at their home venues and broadcast at later dates. The program also features youth music competition winners. While many students who appear on Introductions pursue other careers, some have gone on to study music at some of the most prestigious music schools around the world and pursue careers as professional musicians.