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18-year-old harpist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Angelica Hairston wanted to share her music with visually impaired children from her community. She had become acquainted with the Georgia Organization of Parents of Blind Children (GOPBC) as a member of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, and wanted an opportunity to meet and work with these [...]
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This is a great example of Arts Leadership! We love how teens took the initiative and then won support from a major symphony. The West High Symphony Club has teamed up with Utah Symphony | Utah Opera (US | UO) to create a “template” for classical music and opera clubs as a way to get teens [...]
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Calling all Baltimore residents! We just learned about From the Top alum and clarinetist Matthew Dykeman‘s upcoming benefit concert supporting “United for Uganda” – a project that provides the TORUWU (Training of Rural Women in Uganda) Community Brass Band with instruments and financial aid. He’ll be joined by musicians from the Peabody Conservatory and the [...]
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On July 10 Stephen Kim (Show 193 in Mobile, AL) won the Violin Concerto Competition in Aspen! Today (Tuesday, July 19) he will perform Mozart’s Concerto No. 5 with the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Orchestra. Stephen told us: Winning this competition is so special to me because my teacher Stuart Canin performed the [...]
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We are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2011 Margaret Stewart Lindsay (MSL) Arts Leadership Awards - Dan Felix, 17, from Kingston, MA and Muhan Zhang, a junior at Boston College who appeared on From the Top Show #221 in Boston, MA. The MSL program, currently in its second year, encourages high school and [...]
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From the Top alum Helen Gerhold just won 2nd prize in the Intermediate Division of the 19th American Harp Society National Competition! Last fall Helen was a winner of From the Top and Carnegie Hall’s Big Break YouTube Contest and she appeared on Show 231 in New York. Helen was also awarded the American Harp [...]
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16-year-old guitarist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist John Marcel Williams wanted to share his own learning and experiences with younger guitarists of a nearby community. He chose to visit the Pittsburgh Music Academy (PMA), where he gave a brief performance and ended with a Q&A session for those in attendance. There were about 20 [...]
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This Sunday, July 17 at 2pm Rockport Music is presenting a “Young Artists Piano Virtuoso Showcase” celebrating the 200th anniversary of Franz Liszt’s birth at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, MA. Three of the four performers are From the Top alums: George Li (Show 144 in Boston, MA), Charlie Albright (Show 066 in [...]
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It’s been a successful year for From the Top alumni – every time we open our email, there’s another piece of great news! This time the update came from young guitarist Thomas Pfefer who was featured on Show 224 in Bethlehem, PA. Thomas was recently awarded 1st Prize in the Junior Division of the Guitar Foundation [...]
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Chilean-born pianist and composer Patricio (From the Top at Carnegie Hall, Season 2, Episode 5) has just completed his first opera! Titled “La Sargento de La Concepción,” this work is comprised of three acts and was inspired by true events in Chile’s national history. Congratulations, Patricio! This past weekend Patricio wrote: Today on July 9th [...]
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