Robert Sherman
The McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase
Airs Wednesdays at 9PM on 105.9FM
Among the countless artists who have been heard on The McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase in the earliest stages of their careers are violinists Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Joshua Bell, and Chee-Yun; cellist Matt Haimovitz; and pianist Orli Shaham. The weekly program regularly presents winners of such international competitions as the William Kapell, Vianna da Motta, and Jose Iturbi, as well as laureates of in-school auditions held at New York’s prestigious Juilliard, Manhattan, and Mannes music schools. To mark the 25th anniversary of the show, Harold McGraw III inaugurated the annual $10,000 Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach.
New York City native Robert Sherman is well-known to radio listeners as the host of The McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase on WQXR, a show now in its 32nd season. For 23 years he also presided over WQXR's The Listening Room. Since their inception, he has hosted the Avery Fisher Career Grant Award presentations at Lincoln Center, and his multiple award-winning folk series "Woody's Children" is now heard in New York on Public Radio's WFUV. Many of his historic broadcast tapes are in the permanent collections of the Sarasota Music Archive and the Media Collection at the University of Maryland.
Latest Episodes and Articles
Oberlin and Symphony in C
Friday, May 25, 2012
Two vigorous performances by the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra under Raphael Jimenez bookend this week’s Young Artist Showcase.
First off, a haunting piece called Mozart’s Hymn by American composer Daniel Kellogg; and as a coda, a crisp performance of the finale from Beethoven’s "Pastoral" Symphony.
American Pianists Association Finalists
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
This week, the Young Artists Showcase presents a concert recorded live at Steinway Hall introducing the finalists for the American Pianists Association's 2013 Classical Fellowship Awards.
Recent Career Bridges Vocal Competition Winners
Sunday, May 13, 2012
This week's Young Artists Showcase features songs with and without words. As a prelude, bassoonist Peter Kolkay performs the Schumann Romances, followed by a live YAS session with recent winners of the Career Bridges Vocal Competition.
Young Concert Artists Anniversary Gala Preview
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
The Young Artist Showcase has been going strong since 1978, but with more than 50 years of nurturing young talent, the Young Concert Artists has the YAS beat. Many of today’s stars got their start with YCA, including Emanuel Ax, who said, “It is because of Young Concert Artists that I am able to make music today."
Francisco Chomnalez and other Legacy Award Winners
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Pianists Month continues on the Young Artists Showcase with a studio session from 17-year-old Francisco Chomnalez, a student at the Manhattan School of Music and recent winner of its Constance Keene Precollege Piano Award, named for the master piano teacher at MSM (and wife of WQXR’s longtime program director Abram Chasins). Chomnalez’s wide-ranging program goes from Bach to Beethoven to Stravinsky, and previews his recital at Manhattan School of Music on May 8.
Studio Session With Pianist Ching-Yun Hu
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
April is Pianists Month on the Young Artists Showcase and this week’s show features Taiwanese pianist Ching-Yun Hu.
