From the Top heads to Baylor University in Waco, TX to meet a 16-year-old fiddling champion and an accomplished 17-year-old organist, both from the Lone Star State and we’ll reconnect with another alum in our 10^th Anniversary series to learn about his choice to pursue medicine.

Yurie Mitsuhashi, violin, age 17, from Fort Lee, NJ, a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist, performing Danse Hongroise by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Samuel Gaskin, organ, age 17, from College Station, TX performing II. Fugue from Prelude & Fugue on Alain, Op. 17 by Maurice Duruflé

Vijay Venkatesh, piano, age 18, from Laguna Niguel, CA performing “The Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Philip Sousa, arr. Vladimir Horowitz

LaMont Barlow, bassoon from New York, NY, 10th Anniversary Alumni Performer, performing Suite for Bassoon and Piano, I. Introduction and Allegro by Alexandre Tansman
 
Nathaniel Smith, cello, age 15, from Brandon, MS performing Serenade, Op. 54, No. 2 by David Popper

Mia Orosco, fiddle, age 16, from Lorena, TX performs a fiddle encore “Sally Goodin” (traditional) with Nathaniel Smith, cello and Simon Stipp, guitar.