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Sixteen-year-old pianist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award recipient Jingxuan Zhang feels strongly about advocating for elementary music education. Jing is featured on From the Top’s broadcast from El Paso this week and recently wrote a letter to his governor in Indiana to address his feelings about the importance of arts education. “I want […]

Get involved in National Arts and Humanities Month! Here are three things you can do right now: Go to the American for the Arts “Arts Action Center” to tell your senators and representatives to support a funding increase for the National Endowment of the Arts (it takes two minutes!). Click on the National Arts and […]

17-year-old violinist Caeli Smith, From the Top alum and Roving Reporter,  has produced a very fun look behind the scenes at From the Top’s 200th radio show taping at the Heifetz International Music Institute in Wolfeboro, NH this past July.  Be sure to tune in to the broadcast on stations this week (and online at […]

Hi everyone, and welcome to the latest edition of my travel blog. Sunday’s From the Top taping took place at our home base, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, which, for those not from the area, happens to be located directly across the street from our office. So travel was particularly non-eventful. The taping, however, was […]

From the Top was pleased to give the first Margaret Stewart Lindsay Arts Leadership Award to violist Griffin Gaffney at our show in Boston yesterday. Margaret Stewart Lindsay inspired many by overcoming her personal challenges and for her generous compassion. She turned her life experience into a desire to help others. She had a passion […]

This just in… an exclusive interview with Christopher O’Riley is now on the Chopin Society of Atlanta’s web site. Get the inside scoop from our host. If you are in New York this weekend, be sure to check out From the Top alum Anna Lee performing with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony. Fellow alums Sirena […]

Interested in starting your own community project?  Check out DoSomething.org ‘s Social Action Bootcamp where you’ll learn tons of valuable skills like building a website for $10, writing a business plan and online fundraising. On Saturday September 26th from 9am-5pm, Do Something will be streaming LIVE! from our Boston Social Action Boot Camp into your […]

About two hundred years ago, the great Italian virtuoso Niccolo Paganini wrote 24 Caprices for Solo Violin. Ever since, they have been considered the hardest pieces written for the instrument. From the Top alum William Harvey is going to learn and perform all 24. Why? You ask. He’s doing it as a fundraiser for his […]

The Music Center Spotlight Awards are inviting applicants from young performing and visual artists in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Diego counties in California. Learn more: http://www.musiccenter.org/education/spot_index.html

10-year-old guitarist and From the Top alum, Roberto Granados represented From the Top at the Daytime Emmys last weekend in Los Angeles, where From the Top at Carnegie Hall picked up two Emmys. Performing before the ceremony, Roberto was complimented by Ming Tsai of PBS’s Simply Ming, as being  ‘to the guitar what Tiger Woods […]

We are deeply saddened by the loss of our friend Erich Kunzel today.  He was a great champion for classical music in America, and a wonderful supporter of the next generation of musicians. He was truly one of From the Top’s role models. We feel very fortunate to have collaborated with him and his incredible […]

From the Top’s first recording collaboration with Telarc  and Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, From the Top at the Pops, was officially released last Tuesday. The album has already received kudos from a number of critics and bloggers. On Tuesday, September 8, From the Top and the Pops will throw a New York coming […]

We are pleased to announce that From the Top at Carnegie Hall received two Emmy Awards at this weekend’s Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Ceremony. The awards were for: Outstanding Children’s Series and Achievement in Multiple Camera Editing. Congratulations to the entire production team including: From the Top, Don Mischer Productions, WGBH and our partner Carnegie […]

This week Secretary of Education Arne Duncan engaged in a public conference call on the subject of arts education with more 2,000 educators, advocates, leaders, and concerned citizens.  Our Education Program Manager Jenny Meyburg joined in on the discussion. Keep reading to learn more about what was discussed on the call: 

In 2008, pianist Nicholas King was a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist on From the Top’s radio show. At the time, he was already an impressive example of Arts Leadership: when he was as young as seven years old, he began to raise money for Children’s Hospital in LA. After years of helping and inspiring […]

Patrick McGuire is back from Tanzania! The 19-year-old cellist and From the Top alum has completed the two-week arts program for young adults called the “Arusha Arts Initiative” that he designed with five of his peers at Juilliard. (If you want the backstory, we blogged it! Here‘s an interview we did with Patrick when he […]

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