Guest conductor Marcelo Lehninger and British pianist extraordinaire Stephen Hough came into Rochester to perform an all-Beethoven program with your Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

Conductor Jose Luis Gomez and pianist Vadim Kholodenko came to perform with your RPO with a very special thing in common: each had won a major competition. Kholodenko is the newly minted Gold Medalist of the Van Cliburn Competition, and Gomez took the gold in the Solti Competition 4 years ago.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra guest conductor Christoph Koenig and Douglas Humpherys, head of the Piano Department at the Eastman School of Music, stopped by to chat with WXXI Music Director Julia Figueras.