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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.

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 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 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 “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 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 PSU faculty flutist Naomi Seidman with the Penns Woods Music Festival Orchestra, led by Gerardo Edelstein, in a flute concerto by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach; two pieces by Margaret Bonds, arranged for solo piano and performed by Lara Downes: “Credo No. 2” and “Troubled Water;” And the Violin Sonata in G Minor by Laura Valbourg Aulin, played by Penn State professors James Lyon, violin and Timothy Shafer, 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 music by 20th century Russian composer Marina Dranishnikova, played by Penn State faculty members Andreas Oeste, oboe & Melody Quah, piano; “Hark, I hear the harps eternal,” a traditional hymn arranged by Alice Parker and performed by Penn State’s Oriana Singers, directed by Jane Glocke; And pianist Melody Quah as soloist in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Penns Woods Music Festival Orchestra, conducted 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, 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.