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Chamber Music Hawaii and the Musicians of the Honolulu Symphony have announced that Christopher O’Riley will perform a benefit recital on behalf of the Honolulu Symphony musicians on Sunday, November 29, 2009. Christopher was originally scheduled to perform as a soloist with the Honolulu Symphony in concerts at the end of this month, when it […]

This summer, three From the Top alumni Ren Martin-Doike, 18, violin/viola, Zoe Martin-Doike, 19, violin, and Nathan Vickery, 19, cello participated in a whirlwind two-week nine concert tour with the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music pre-college Virtuosi. Ren sent us a great write-up of her trip with this 9-member  chamber ensemble and their coaching […]

Congratulations to the winners of Do Something and VH1’s “Save Our Music” campaign! By organizing fundraisers, launching letter writing campaigns, and making presentations to their local school committees, students were given the chance to win up to $2500 for their school’s music program. Read about the winning projects and get inspired! Tell us what you […]

Young musicians can do amazing things! 17-year-old violist Deberly Kauffman, who was featured on From the Top’s radio taping in Wolfeboro, NH this past summer, created a free music lessons program in her hometown of Robbinsville, NJ. She has now been teaching and running this program with her father for five years! Deberly’s program offers […]

Our monster two-week tour has finally come to an end, and from Atlanta to Granville to Waco to Dallas, it’s been a great one! On Friday night we taped at the exceptionally beautiful AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Winspear Opera House in Dallas. Two From the Top alums, percussionists Joshua Jones and John Ringor from Chicago, […]

Howdy from the Lone Star State! Do you know we’ve done more tapings in Texas than anywhere else in the country? We just drove to Dallas, where we have a taping tomorrow, from Waco, where we had a show at Baylor University’s Jones Concert Hall last night (thanks to the folks at KWBU). It was […]

This weekend From the Top’s own Education Program Assistant and alum extraordinaire Audrey Wright (Show 138 and Show 160) is playing in a benefit concert in Cotuit, MA. Together with friends from New England Conservatory — Yundu Wang, piano and Linor Katz, cello — Audrey’s concert will support Children’s Cove, a non-profit Child Advocacy Center […]

Irineo Cabreros has been described as hard to peg. Featured on From the Top’s Mobile, AL taping last winter, the phenomenal 18-year-old musician says it best when he describes himself as “a dreadlocked, birkenstocked, teenage flutist who loves to play soccer and beat-box.” Currently enrolled in the Harvard University and New England Conservatory (NEC) dual […]

Check out Denison Magazine’s post and video on From the Top’s November 7 taping at Swasey Chapel (on the air the week of January 4, 2010).

From the Top’s broadcast for this week was taped at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston on October 4, 2009. We asked our performers to tell us about the music they performed on the show: Adria Ye, 11, piano (right) Restlessness, Op. 19, No. 5; The Spinning Song, Op. 67, No. 4 from Songs […]

This NPR story features studies that prove how musician’s brains are better at isolating sounds in noisy environments. Find out how music training can change your brain!

I’m coming to you today from several thousand feet off the ground on my flight back to Boston, and I’m still on a high (no pun intended) from yesterday’s taping at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. It was an all-alumni show featuring some incredible performers from past seasons. I had such a blast reconnecting with […]

Greetings from beautiful Atlanta, Georgia, where it is a sunny 64 degrees (my poor colleagues back in Boston are dealing with much chillier temperatures)! We had a great taping last night at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Emory University. It was really fun reconnecting with this show’s 10th Anniversary Alumni guest Melissa White, […]

It’s been a busy day for our venerable host. Before taping a live From the Top episode at Emory University tonight, Christopher participated in Emory University’s Creativity Conversation series. Watch his interview with Emory University Vice-President and Secretary Rosemary Magee.

In October, From the Top and Young Audiences New Jersey (YANJ) facilitated a three-hour workshop for New York area alumni to prepare for another exciting year of performances and demonstrations in the Newark public schools. Thanks to a generous grant from the Prudential Foundation, our six alumni volunteers Ibanda Ruhumbika, 19, tuba, Christopher Pell, 18, […]

The White House’s music series turns to the classical music world today as it combines a program of student workshops with an evening concert performed by renowned professionals Grammy Award-winning violinist and frequent From the Top guest Joshua Bell, Grammy Award-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin, renowned cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and acclaimed pianist Awadagin Pratt. We’ve also …

This summer, two traveling alumni dropped by the From the Top headquarters in Boston to say hello, and found themselves giving an impromptu concert. Ross Mintzer (Show #125), saxophonist and guitarist, and Mike Thurber (Show #s 125 & 142) , double bassist, were on their way to Vermont to play a show as dynamic duo […]

A great experience for D.C. Youth Orchestra members to play with a master conductor as reported in the Washington Post.

Sheila P. of Winchester, MA, who attended the Boston October 4 live radio taping, and Rosie S. of Provo, UT, who attended the Salt Lake City October 9 live radio taping, have been selected as the winners of From the Top CD packs. Congratulations! For your chance to win a CD pack of your very […]