Giving Back Through Music In Iowa – Part II

Earlier this week, we introduced you to a pair of young musicians who were successful in raising more than $5,000 for Alzheimer’s research. Today we’re going to give you the scoop on the other projects Iowa musicians are working on through From the Top’s Arts Leadership program. Meet Hayley – a high school clarinetist from [...]

Scholarship Alum Performs Internationally

Pianist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Nicholas King appeared on From the Top in May 2008 in New Albany, Ohio, where he performed the opening movement of Beethoven’s “Waldstein” Sonata.  If you don’t know the story of how Nick got started on the piano, listen to his From the Top appearance. Nick emailed us [...]

Giving Back Through Music in Iowa – Part I

For the past two years, From the Top and Orchestra Iowa have collaborated on a project called Iowa Makes Music. One component of this residency is our Arts Leadership program, which provides high school age classical musicians with intensive arts leadership training and one-on-one mentoring to help them develop and lead their own music-inspired service [...]

Great News From Natalie Dungey!

You may remember 11-year-old Natalie Dungey on Show #202 in Salt Lake City, where she blew the audience away with incredibly polished sounds from a difficult brass instrument – the trumpet!  If you missed the show, you can listen here and watch a video of her rehearsal the night before here. We just got an [...]

Show 214: Listening Guide

The week’s From the Top broadcast was taped at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City, Iowa, on February 24, 2010.  We asked our performers to tell us about the music they performed on the show: Thomas Burrill, 14, piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35, I. Grave – Doppio movimento by Frederic [...]

Another Win for Nadine Sierra!

We just got word of yet another amazing success from one of our alums!  Nadine Sierra, soprano, who first appeared on From the Top six years ago at the age of 15 and was featured this year as one of our 10th Anniversary guests, just won first place in the 38th Annual Grand Finals Concert [...]

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