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12-year-old guitarist Roberto Granados and 16-year-old pianist Rieko Tsuchida are both performing at the California Symphony season finale this Sunday, May 1 at 4pm. Roberto will play “Concierto de Aranjuez” and Rieko will perform the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1. The program also features Shostakovich Symphony No.5 in D minor. Robert has appeared on two [...]
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This week From the Top traveled to Carmel, IN to tape a radio show at The Palladium – the gorgeous concert hall of The Center for the Performing Arts. The show featured seven extraordinary young artists, as well as a guest appearance by singer and pianist Michael Feinstein! The morning after, our performers joined us [...]
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To help sustain awareness of the recent devastation in Japan and raise money for relief efforts, From the Top alum and violist Lauren Chipman and her band The Rentals have teamed up with the Red Cross Los Angeles Region and Ernest Jenning Record Co. to release ‘Resilience,’ an album featuring 18 orchestral compositions that will [...]
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15-year-old violinist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Michael Ferri appeared on Show #220 in Davenport, IA this past October. Not long after, Michael visited two schools in his hometown of Cleveland, and performed for a wide range of students. He first visited the Marion-Sterling Elementary School, then traveled to the E-Prep School with Cleveland [...]
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Weeks ago we posted about how From the Top alum and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Umi Garrett was planning a benefit concert for Japan. The event was a great success and raised $3,400, all of which was donated to the Red Cross! Below are pictures from the concert and the repertoire list. Yoshie Akimoto, [...]
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For the past few months, From the Top has been hard at work launching our Center for the Development of Arts Leaders (CDAL)! This blog is the third in a series written by Linda Gerstle, Director of Education and Community Partnerships, chronicling the pilot year of this program. You can read the first post here [...]
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We had a wonderful taping this past weekend in College Park, Maryland with a talented and diverse group of teenage musicians. First up was 16-year-old pianist Kimberly Hou, who did something never before accomplished during a From the Top rehearsal – she played so passionately she broke a piano string! We were very lucky because [...]
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We just got wind of a new opportunity from Carnegie Hall for young composers! The Carmina Burana Choral Project features 200 high school singers and 50 middle school singers from all over New York City with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s conducted by David Robertson. Carnegie is looking for three high school-aged composers to write [...]
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12-year old pianist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Sherry Tang appeared on Show #220 in Davenport, IA this past October. A resident of Monterey Park, CA, Sherry wanted to share her music with the residents of her neighborhood’s retirement facility: the Beverly Hills Carmel Retirement Hotel. “I want to share music with the elderly [...]
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This past weekend, From the Top visited the University of Maryland in College Park to tape a radio show. Ranging in genre from baroque to contemporary, our seven young artists gave a fantastic performance! The next sunny morning, six of the performers joined us for the Arts Leadership Orientation, where we explored the many ways [...]
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