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We’ve got a treat for you! Last week’s Show 230, which was taped April 7 in Monterey, California as part of the e.g. Conference, was captured on video in its entirety.  This means each performance is on YouTube for you to watch! If you’re pressed for time, at least check out this clip of Jake […]

This spring has been a whirlwind for everyone at From the Top! In the past two months alone we’ve taped radio shows in Georgia, Iowa, California, New York, Maryland, Indiana, and this week we are in Virginia. Here’s a quick snapshot of the fun we’ve had: We were honored to have special guest and internationally […]

Hi everyone! We’re back from Carmel, Indiana, where we taped a show with a very special guest – singer and interpreter of the Great American Songbook Michael Feinstein. He was warm and wonderful with our young performers, and they were all excited to work with him. The show opened with 16-year-old cellist Matthew Liversedge who […]

Violist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Marcus Rose is a 17-year-old musician from Louisiana with a warm and easy-going personality. To hear him play (and attendees of our November show in Baton Rouge did), it would be easy to believe his musical accomplishments have come without challenges. In reality, without the help of three […]

12-year-old guitarist Roberto Granados and 16-year-old pianist Rieko Tsuchida are both performing at the California Symphony season finale this Sunday, May 1 at 4pm. Roberto will play “Concierto de Aranjuez” and Rieko will perform the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1. The program also features Shostakovich Symphony No.5 in D minor. Robert has appeared on two […]

To help sustain awareness of the recent devastation in Japan and raise money for relief efforts, From the Top alum and violist Lauren Chipman and her band The Rentals have teamed up with the Red Cross Los Angeles Region and Ernest Jenning Record Co. to release ‘Resilience,’ an album featuring 18 orchestral compositions that will […]

15-year-old violinist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Michael Ferri appeared on Show #220 in Davenport, IA this past October. Not long after, Michael visited two schools in his hometown of Cleveland, and performed for a wide range of students. He first visited the Marion-Sterling Elementary School, then traveled to the E-Prep School with Cleveland […]

We had a wonderful taping this past weekend in College Park, Maryland with a talented and diverse group of teenage musicians. First up was 16-year-old pianist Kimberly Hou, who did something never before accomplished during a From the Top rehearsal – she played so passionately she broke a piano string! We were very lucky because […]

12-year old pianist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Sherry Tang appeared on Show #220 in Davenport, IA this past October. A resident of Monterey Park, CA, Sherry wanted to share her music with the residents of her neighborhood’s retirement facility: the Beverly Hills Carmel Retirement Hotel. “I want to share music with the elderly […]

This past weekend, From the Top visited the University of Maryland in College Park to tape a radio show. Ranging in genre from baroque to contemporary, our seven young artists gave a fantastic performance! The next sunny morning, six of the performers joined us for the Arts Leadership Orientation, where we explored the many ways […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 …

Young From the Top alum and pianist Umi Garrett, age 10 (Shows 211 and 217) is putting on a charity concert next week to raise money for the crisis in Japan. Check out her video about the project: Umi’s “Help Japan” concert will be Friday, April 8 at 7:30pm at the Steinway Piano Gallery in […]

On April 7, From the Top will visit the e.g. Conference for an exciting show featuring ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro in performance with sensational young musicians! We have a limited number of complimentary tickets to give away to our fans – register here with password ‘fromthetop.’ Thursday, April 7 @ 5:00 pm The Golden State […]

For the past few months, From the Top has been hard at work launching our Center for the Development of Arts Leaders! This blog is the first in a series written by Linda Gerstle, Director of Education and Community Partnerships, chronicling the pilot year of this program. Enjoy! The anticipation and excitement of the January […]

The day after taping Show #228 in Athens, GA, our Education Team traveled with performer and harpist Angelica Hairston to the Clarke Central High School. They met with twenty orchestra students, ranging from 9th to 12th grade, and teacher Eunice Kang in the school’s orchestra room. Angelica is the recipient of From the Top’s Jack […]

This week’s broadcast was taped at the University of Georgia’s Center for the Performing Arts in Athens, GA with special guest Sir James Galway on Sunday February 27, 2011. We asked our performers to tell us about the music they performed on the show: Arianna Smith, 17, viola From My Heart and Circus By: Paul […]

Big news for 18-year-old From the Top alum and violinist Caroline Goulding! On March 14, she was one of three recipients of the 2011 Avery Fisher Career Grant, awarded at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The other recipients were pianists Benjamin Hochman and Chu-Fang Huang. They join a distinguished […]

This week’s From the Top broadcast was taped in the Opelika Center for the Performing Arts in Opelika, AL on Tuesday February 8, 2011. We asked our performers to tell us about the music they performed on the show: Samuel Casseday, 17, Double bass I. Allegro Moderato from Concerto No.2 in B minor By: Giovanni […]