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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 […]

This week’s show, recorded at the WGBH Fraser Performance Studio in Boston, begins From the Top’s 10th Anniversary celebration. In addition to featuring special alumni guest, William Harvey, the show also includes a 9-year-old flutist, a chamber ensemble from the New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, a counter tenor and a clarinet trio. We asked […]

The Davidson Institute announced their Fellows yesterday and we spotted From the Top alumni in each division. Congratulations go to: Melody Lindsay, 17, harpist from Honolulu, Hawaii; Sarina Zhang, 13, cellist and pianist from San Diego, CA; and Connie Kim-Sheng, 17 of La Crescenta, CA for receiving scholarships and to Simone Porter,  of Seattle, WA […]

From the Top at Carnegie Hall has been awarded a 2009 Gabriel Award in the Television Arts Category. These awards are presented by the CBA (Catholic Broadcasters Association) to “recognize outstanding artistic achievement in a television or radio program or series which entertains and enriches with a true vision of humanity and true vision of […]

We are pleased to report that we have succeeded in reaching our goal for the $25,000 matching challenge grant from our Boston donors Liz and Phill Gross! We thank everyone who helped us secure this wonderful gift, which makes it possible for us to close our fiscal year without a deficit. Now, on to another […]

We’ll be visiting music camps around the country this summer to find some new, amazing talent for our next season of programming. Stops include: Sphinx Performance Academy at Walnut Hill School Natick, MA – July 7 Boston University Tanglewood Institute Boston, MA – July 17 Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Arts Camp Interlochen, MI […]

If you subscribe to our e-newsletter, you may have already heard that we recently received news of a $25,000 matching challenge grant from our leadership donors Liz and Phill Gross of Boston, MA. Since we announced this challenge two weeks ago, we have raised 85% of our matching goal. Incredible! We’d thought we’d send a […]

If you enjoy singing with your neighbors, congregation, or classmates, you’re taking an increasingly popular path to a successful life. According to a new study by Chorus America, an estimated 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in choruses today, and 32.5 million of those are adults! More than 1 in 5 US households have […]

From the Top was honored today by the National Arts Learning Collaborative (NALC)  and the Massachusetts Arts Education Collaborative (MAEC) with the “Media Support for Arts Education Award,” presented at the Massachusetts State House in Boston. We are proud to be among the many wonderful advocates for arts education to be honored during this event. […]

From the Top at Carnegie Hall has received five Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards for its second season on PBS, the series has earned a total of eight nominations since it debuted in 2007. Nominations were in the following categories for Season 2: Outstanding Children’s Series, Outstanding Directing in a Children’s Series (Gary Halvorson), Outstanding Achievement […]

From the Top Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Clifton Williams will appear on this week’s national broadcast of From the Top on NPR and is featured in today’s Washington Post. Clifton, a 17-year-old pianist from Washington, DC is among the 100 recipients who have received a $10,000 award through a partnership between From the Top […]

From the Top alumni, Rainer Crosett, a 16-year-old cellist from Andover, MA and Julia Glenn, a 19-year-old violinist currently studying at Harvard University, visited the Whelan Elementary School in Revere, MA on April 15, where they performed for the entire 3rd grade in the school library. Rainer and Julia talked about their instruments, had the […]

This month, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and a dozen Chicago-based music education organizations launched a new initiative to encourage youth engagement in music with the  “Chicago Festival of Youth in Music.” Percussionist and From the Top alum Joshua Jones (pictured) was among the hundreds of participants. He writes: “I had the privilege of performing in […]

Piano teacher Adrienne McKinney of Lexington, KY posted a comment to Greg Sandow’s blog that has generated some great ideas about how to bridge the gap between classical and not-classical music – inviting music students to bring in their favorite tunes for reworking or improvisation, giving them the vocabulary to communicate about what music means […]

On Friday March 27, From the Top was featured during the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) National Arts Council Meeting. From the Top CEO Jerry Slavet remarked that it was an exciting opportunity to speak  with the NEA leadership body about From the Top’s public broadcasts, education outreach, and scholarship program. “The early vote […]

This Friday, our venerable host launches a new and innovative concert series at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre. Chris’ three-part recital series will bring him back to the stage where he performed his groundbreaking Radiohead Transcriptions in 2002. The new series entitled 2+2=5 draws connections between the music of Radiohead, Nick Drake and Elliott Smith with […]

By Caeli Smith, Roving Reporter Hi everyone! One of my all-time favorite quotes comes from the other side of the globe. In the words of Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali mystic, “Music fills the infinite between two souls.” A person who lives half the world away can seem infinitely far from you, but music brings people […]

Portland’s KGW Channel 8 News recently featured a segment about From the Top alum and violist Griffin Gaffney’s free lesson program. Click here to check it out!

Dr. Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of music division at The Boston Conservatory, gave this fantastic welcome address to the  parents of incoming students at The Boston Conservatory on September 1, 2004: “One of my parents’ deepest fears, I suspect, is that society would not properly value me as a musician, that I wouldn’t be […]

As usual, From the Top’s amazing alumni are out and about and accomplishing great things. Here are just a few examples of recent news we have heard: The 2009 Annual Stulberg String Competition was held on Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan. From the Top alumni soared to the top of the competition. They include: Gold Medal […]