Last night From the Top taped a show before a live audience at SUNY/Purchase PAC’s Concert Hall with the astonishing National Youth Orchestra of the USA, under the direction of David Robertson. In the next couple of weeks, audiences in many of the major summer festivals will have reason to celebrate the superb musicianship and …
From the Top just wrapped a live taping in Salem, MA in the bravely eclectic confines of the Peabody Essex Museum. Our program featured the usual array of greatly gifted young musicians in addition to PEM’s own composer-in-residence, the newly eminent conductor/composer/pianist Matt Aucoin. Each of our guests chose a work from PEM’s massive collection …
getting the band back together: I will be joining Pablo Ziegler, composer and pianist of many years for Astor Piazzolla’s New Tango Quintet, touring his fantastic two-piano arrangements of his own works and famous tunes by Piazzolla. We needed to find two pianos to rehearse, and so Irene Wlodarski of Steinway reserved a studio at …
Tonight was the 10th Annual From the Top Gala, held this year at the incredible MIT Media Lab. First opportunity to take a complete staff photograph. What a great-looking bunch, the hardest-working and most congenial group I’ve been honoured to work with now these 15 years. Your soundtrack for perusing this panoramic sea of smiles …
David King is my favorite drummer in the world. He’s also a great composer and pianist. He plays often with The Bad Plus. This is a solo piano arrangement i performed at a From the Top live taping in OH a couple of years ago. Jacques, the eponymous French medalist promenading with his medal disported …