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
The Russians are Coming
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Clarinetist Stanislav Chernyshev came from St. Petersburg to study at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Host Bob Sherman heard him last summer at the Summit Music Festival in Purchase, N.Y., and was blown away.
Happy Chinese New Year!
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
As part of WQXR’s China in New York festival, this week’s show features a visit with three young Chinese artists: tenor Yi Li, pianist Zhu Wang and pianist Chu-Fang Huang.
Winners of Salon de Virtuosi Career Grants, Part II
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
This week, The McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase returns to Steinway Hall for the conclusion of the Salon De Virtuosi's Gala Concert, which was hosted by WQXR’s Bob Sherman this past October.
Winners of Salon de Virtuosi Career Grants, Part I
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
The McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase goes to Steinway Hall for the opening of the Salon De Virtuosi's 23rd season. Bob Sherman hosted the Gala Awards Concert this past October and we begin 2012 with live performances from that program featuring 16-year-old Chinese-American pianist Conrad Tao; an American pianist of Armenian and Korean parentage, Tanya Gabrielian; and the Norwegian-American cellist Hans Kristian Goldstein.
An (Almost) New Year’s Eve Party for WQXR’s 75th
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
This final McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase of 2011 celebrates WQXR’s 75th anniversary by featuring some former artists: Alec Templeton, Leopold Stokowski and a special April Fools’ Day visit with Abram Chasins and actor Sir Peter Ustinov, who also plays the part of such "international colleagues" as unknown new music expert Herr Professor Dr. Doctor Hoempler Ziegler, and the obscure scholar Sir Banbury Cross, author of two pseudo-books: The Elgar I Knew and The Elgar Who Knew Me.
When Stars Align
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
American Pianist Andrew Tyson, German violinist Veit Hertenstein and Taiwanese-American violinist Paul Huang all took first prize at the 2011 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Applicants from 28 countries were narrowed down to eight finalists, and ultimately these three young instrumentalists were chosen for their artistry. Today we hear why.
