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In Performance at Penn State
Second Friday of the month at 11 a.m., with an encore airing the following Monday at 8 p.m.

In Performance at Penn State is a monthly, hour-long show that brings you the talents of students and faculty from Penn State's School of Music on the University Park Campus. We'll present a variety of performers and music in each program, most recorded live in-concert. The show is produced by WPSU-FM, and hosted by WPSU's Kristine Allen.

  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear PSU faculty pianist Christopher Guzman playing the English Suite No. 3 in G Minor by Bach. Then we celebrate Black History Month with music by two African American composers: the Penn State Glee Club singing “Ain’a That Good News!” by William L. Dawson; and the student musicians of the Penn State Philharmonic, led by faculty conductor Gerardo Edelstein, in the Symphony No. 3 in C Minor by Florence Price.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat with pianist Steven Herbert Smith as soloist from the Penns Woods Music Festival; The Penn State Concert Choir, directed by Christopher Kiver singing “The Peace of Wild Things” by Cynthia Powell; and an oboe sonata by Francis Poulenc played on the saxophone by PSU facutly members David Stambler, saxophone and Christopher Guzman, piano.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear “Le Tombeau de Couperin” by Maurice Ravel, from the Penns Woods Music Festival; a sonata for clarinet and piano by Marion Bauer from a faculty recital; The Penn State Glee Club singing Franz Biebl’s “Ave Maria” and “Elegy for a Young American,” written in tribute to President John F. Kennedy by Ronald Lo Presti and played by the Penn State Symphonic Band.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear PSU faculty pianist Christopher Guzman playing Chopin in recital; Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B-flat, from the Penn's Woods Music Festival; and a prelude and fugue by Bach arranged by Mozart played with period performance practices by members of the Penn State Baroque Ensemble.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear the opening movement of Carl Reinecke’s Flute concerto in D, played with piano accompaniment at a 2022 Penn State Graduate Recognition Recital; Mozart’s Concerto in E-flat for Two Pianos and Orchestra, played by soloists Cecilia Dunoyer and Christopher Guzman and conducted by Gerardo Edelstein at the Penns Woods Music Festival in 2017; and “Panamanian Dances” by William Grant Still, performed at a Penns Woods chamber concert in 2015.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear the Penn State Chamber Orchestra play Claude Debussy’s “Petite Suite,” as orchestrated by Henri Büsser; PSU faculty trombonist Mark Lusk, with pianist Kathy Gattuso Cinatl in a transcription of Beethoven’s song cycle, “An die ferne Geliebte” or “To the Distant Beloved”; a song by American composer Amy Beach; And the Penn State Philharmonic in “Capriccio espagnole” by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Both PSU orchestras are conducted by Penn State faculty member Gerardo Edelstein.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, the show includes: the Cello Sonata by Frederic Chopin, arranged for viola & piano by Penn State violist Timothy Deighton, who performs it with PSU pianist Timothy Shafer; and the Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber, played by violinist James Lyon and the Penn State Philharmonic, led by Gerardo Edelstein.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear the Penn State Glee Club, led by Christopher Kiver, in music by by German Renaissance composer Hans Leo Hassler; Penn State’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble playing a fantasia and fugue by Bach, arranged by Sir Edward Elgar; and the Penns Woods Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Gerardo Edelstein, in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F, known as his “Pastoral” symphony. (This program originally aired in December of 2020.)
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear the lively suite, “Café Music” by Paul Schoenfield, played by musicians from the Penns Woods Music Festival. Then we’ll hear larger ensembles, led by two young women conductors studying at Penn State: hear the “Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture” by Tchiakovsky from the Penn State Philharmonic, conducted by Fernanda Lastra; and the “English Folk Song Suite” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, played by Penn State’s Concert band led by Leila Gil.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear “Les Preludes” by Franz Liszt, played by the Penn State Philharmonic; music from Haydn's "Creation" sung by the Penn State University Choir, and a "Cassation in F major" by Haydn, played by musicians from the Penns Woods Music Festival.