This program is From the Top’s annual “Where Are They Now” show featuring interviews with From the Top alumni and the fantastic music they’re making in their early professional careers. We meet a pianist who just released an album to raise money for the people of Flint, Michigan suffering from the contaminated water crisis, a winner of last year’s Queen Elizabeth Competition, and a baritone who just won his first Grammy.

Show Notes

Performers & Repertoire

  • The Catalyst Quartet with pianist Stewart Goodyear

    Paul Laraia, viola

    Karla Donehew Perez, violin

    Jesse Montgomery, violin

    Karlos Rodriguez, cello



    Piano Quintet in G minor I. Allegro con moto by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

  • John Brancy, baritone

    "How Fair This Spot" and "Spring Waters" by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with Peter Dugan, piano

  • Stella Chen, violin

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, Mvt 3 “Allegro Vivacissimo” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with the Belgian National Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, conductor.

  • Jeremy Ajani Jordan, composer/piano

    “For Flint” by Jeremy Ajani Jordan

  • Yi Wei, marimba

    Sonata No.1 in G Minor, Presto by Johann Sebastian Bach for Marimba



    Two Part Invention No 13 in A Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach

    Yi Wei, marimba

    Béla Fleck, banjo