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Flutist Emi Ferguson (Show 121 in New York City), has won a very prestigious scholarship from The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Paul and Daisy Soros are Hungarian immigrants and American philanthropists. They established their fellowship program for New Americans in 1997, to “give back” to the country that had afforded them [...]
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Hi everyone! We just got back into Boston after a whirlwind couple of days that found us taping radio shows in Monterey, California and New York City as well as performing a family concert at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. The California taping took place at the EG Conference, an amazing meeting of innovators in media, [...]
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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 second in a series written by Linda Gerstle, Director of Education and Community Partnerships, chronicling the pilot year of this program. Read the first post here. When Kate [...]
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17-year-old violist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Marcus Rose appeared on Show #222 in Baton Rouge, LA this past October. In February 2011, Marcus was inspired to explore his love for teaching, and reached out to the Claiborne Fundamental Magnet School in his hometown of Shreveport, LA. He gave three 45-minute presentations, titled “Music [...]
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From the Top alum and oboist Yuga Cohler (Show 142, Granville) from Lexington, Massachusetts, is about to finish his senior year at Harvard University! Yuga has been serving as Music Director of the Harvard Bach Society, and has been accepted into the the Master of Music program in Conducting at Juilliard. He starts this fall, [...]
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Last week From the Top headed to Cedar Falls for a radio show taping at the University of Northern Iowa as part of our multi-year Iowa Makes Music residency, in partnership with Orchestra Iowa. In addition to visiting local elementary schools, being interviewed on-air by Iowa Public Radio, and, of course, taping the show, our [...]
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17-year-old percussionist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Marcelina Suchocka has appeared on two From the Top shows in the past (Show 206 in Texas and Show 220 in Iowa), and was the Grand Prize winner of From the Top and Carnegie Hall’s Big Break YouTube Contest! She and the runners-up of the Big Break [...]
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Our whirlwind tour of tapings (five this month!) kicked off this week in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where we recorded a great episode with five outstanding teenage performers: 17-year-old cellist Andrew Altmaier, 17-year-old saxophonist Elizabeth Lin, 18-year-old pianist Yifan Wu, 14-year-old violinist Jennifer Cha, and 17-year-old accordionist Danielle Renzi. The night before the show, our producers [...]
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