Free with museum admission, performances take place throughout the afternoon at 1:30, 2:15, and 3 p.m. Music in the Galleries is made possible by the John J. Medveckis Foundation.

The first performance of the season takes place on Saturday, October 6 at the Rodin Museum and features violinist Elizabeth Fayette and violist Alexander Petersen, and a complete schedule of performances through May follows:

November 17: Gallery 299, String Duo

December 1: Gallery 206, String Trio

January 19: Great Stair Hall, Solo Piano

February 16: Gallery 152, String and Wind Duo

March 1: Gallery 155, String Trio

April 5: Gallery 277, String Quartet

May 3: Skylit Galleria (Perelman Building), Woodwind Quintet

The Curtis Institute of Music trains exceptionally gifted young musicians for careers as performing artists on the highest professional level. One of the world's leading music schools, Curtis provides full-tuition scholarships to all of its 164 students, ensuring that admissions are based solely on artistic promise.

A Curtis education is uniquely tailored to the individual student, with personalized attention from a celebrated faculty and unusually frequent performance opportunities. This distinctive "learn by doing" approach to musical training has produced an impressive number of notable artists, from such legends as Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber to current stars Juan Diego Flórez, Jennifer Higdon, Hilary Hahn, and Lang Lang. -- www.philamuseum.org