Aglow Trio's modern classical music filled the Kansas Public Radio Live Performance Studio in anticipation of several concerts across the state December 5, 2025

KU piano student and recent winner of the KU piano concerto competition, Jair Zacarias, played Liszt's Reminiscences de Norma on December 4th, 2025. Classical host Destiny Mermagen and KU professor of piano, Priscila Navarro, join us in the studio as well.

Topeka Symphony Soloist Hannah Occena live at Kansas Public Radio November 21, 2025. Hannah plays music from Bach, Toru Takemitsu, Gertrude Rivers Robison and Philippe Gaubert. Cordelia brown visits with Topeka Symphony conductor Kyle Willey Pickett and Hannah Occena.

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Two young pianists from the Park University International Center for Music in Parkville, Missouri visited Kansas Public Radio to help publicize their Students of Stan Ioudenitch Recital coming up Nov 13, 2025

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Brad Doeden, Donn Updegrove, Mike Verga and Greg Yarnell have been singing as a group since 2019. The four men traveled from south-central Kansas to compete at the annual event at the Lied Center the weekend of October 9-12.

Buck and Cipriano performed parts of Mendelsshon's Hear My Prayer and On the Wings of a Dove.

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The pair, along with singers Megan Caulde, Jay Carter, and Paul Davidson, held a benefit concert for Pause Button Ministries at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Kansas City, MO September 14th, 2025. Pause Button Ministries work to help people press pause on destructive behaviors and thoughts. Helping people to find joy, love, peace, patience, gentleness and self control.