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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

From the Top’s radio broadcast this week, taped at the El Paso Summer Music Festival this past June, celebrates our partnership with the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and more than $1 million in scholarships awarded. The radio episode features five new Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award recipients and offers updates from past Young Artists […]

In early October, From the Top traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah to tape a radio broadcast at Libby Gardner Hall with Utah Chamber Artists. While we were there, From the Top had the opportunity to visit the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah and introduce students to 16-year-old violinist Will Hagen, a From the Top […]

This past spring Allen Yu, seventeen-year-old pianist from Cohoes, NY and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award recipient, performed for all of the fourth grade students in his school district! Even more exciting, he enlisted the help of his From the Top friends from his radio taping in Northfield, MA! With the help of seventeen-year-old […]

Hi everybody! I just got back from Salt Lake City, Utah, where we had a blast taping an episode of the radio show. As usual, the show featured an amazing array of talent. One of the standouts for me was ten-year-old trumpet player Natalie Dungey. She is by far the youngest trumpet player we’ve ever […]

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 […]

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 […]

17-year-old cellist, Khari Joyner, from Atlanta, GA, is passionate about music’s power to heal. During his interview on From the Top’s live taping in El Paso, TX (airing the week of October 19), Khari spoke about his experience overcoming lymphoma cancer last year and how music and the power of positive thinking helped get him […]

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 […]

-Kathryn J Bacasmot Living on the East Coast for the past five years has given me plenty of practice in verbally defending my home state, Nebraska. I have honestly grown to relish the laundry list of questions, the looks of disbelief, and the subsequent thinly veiled attempts to recover and come off sounding politely intrigued: […]

On this week’s show, we reconnect with 26-year-old violinist and Cultures in Harmony founder, William Harvey. William first appeared on From the Top’s pilot episode and returns to the show as part of our special 10th anniversary alumni spotlight series. You can listen to the episode at fromthetop.org and learn more about William’s mission to […]

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 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: