Performance Saturday
Saturdays, 7 p.m. on KPAC 88.3 FM
Each Saturday night, Texas Public Radio takes you to the stages of San Antonio and South Texas to hear the best in live classical music performance. Performance Saturday features both new and archive recordings from local and regional ensembles as well as touring performers making their way through South Texas. When available, interviews with the artists provide additional context and insight into the performances and the music.
Following the 'concert' broadcast, host Nathan Cone shares music selections from the KPAC library, focusing on new releases.
Broadcast made possible by MACSA - Musical Arts Center of San Antonio and Audio Geeks.
Latest Episodes
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This concert from the Mid-Texas Symphony, recorded in Sept. 2025, features music by Igor Stravinsky, and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring soloist Daria Rabotkina. "I could tell the orchestra was lifted up by her playing," said conductor Akiko Fujimoto. You can hear the results at the link. -
Pianist Yungyung Guo returned to San Antonio in December, 2025 for a concert featuring her talent, along with special guests cellist Bion Tsang and violinist Scott Yoo. The program was presented by Musical Bridges Around the World live at San Fernando Cathedral in front of an audience of hundreds. Enjoy the concert at the link. -
Kitka is a vocal arts ensemble of women bound by breath, trust, and friendship. They performed a collection of Slavic, Ukrainian and Eastern European songs on Feb. 15 in San Antonio. Hear the full concert at the link. -
This program includes music by Manuel de Falla, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, and many more passionate sounds, all performed live on Feb. 13 by mezzo-soprano Cecilia Duarte, guitarist Isaac Bustos, and cellist Mihai Marica. -
The Heart of Texas Concert Band presents a program of music composed or arranged by Philip Sparke, an English musician who writes at a very high level. -
Recorded live in Seguin, this concert from the Mid-Texas Symphony features Beethoven's mammoth Ninth Symphony, with the San Antonio Mastersingers. Hear the full performance at the link. -
Recorded on December 14, 2025 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower, Musica Sacra San Antonio presents a service of readings and music for the season, including works by Philip Ledger, Eric Whitacre, and traditional carols. -
Once a year, we open the floor to you at KPAC and invite musicians both amateur and professional to share their love of new music and performance at our contemporary classical Open Mic Night. Now in its 9th year, this collaboration with SOLI Chamber Ensemble continues to surprise and delight. Hear the performances at the link. -
Let yourself go, and enjoy this rhythmic program of music from The Orchestra San Antonio. Hear pieces by Alberto Ginastera, Arturo Márquez, and the San Antonio premiere of Juan Pablo Contreras's "MeChicano." -
For their fall season opener, San Antonio's Olmos Ensemble shared three delightful pieces by relatively unknown German composers, and one big Texas premiere by Michael Ippolito, who teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos. Listen to the whole program at the link.
