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WFMT Introductions: Live from Merit School of Music featuring Jacob Cornejo

Name: WFMT Introductions: Live from Merit School of Music featuring Jacob Cornejo
Start: 2025-06-21T10:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-21T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Merit School of Music

June 21, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT

A photo of an empty Gottlieb Hall from the stage.

Please join WFMT and Merit School of Music as we celebrate Make Music Chicago with a live broadcast of Introductions, WFMT’s weekly Saturday morning program featuring talented pre-college classical musicians in the Chicago area.

10:30 am: Doors open to Merit’s Gottlieb Hall
11:00 am: Live broadcast
12:00 pm: Broadcast ends

The performance will feature 18-year-old flutist Jacob Cornejo, a fellow of Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative and student at Merit and ChiArts. Accompanied by pianist Mio Nakamura, Jacob’s program will feature works by Godard and Muczynski, a fantasia by Telemann, and shorter pieces by Ian Clarke and John Rutter.