Four Gifted Young Musicians Aim To Effect Change Through Community-Focused Projects
Since its founding in 1997, From the Top as an organization has held fast to the belief that America's most promising, young, classically-trained musicians have the potential to impact the world beyond sharing their virtuosity with it. From the Top has a full-time education staff and challenges all of its performers, whether eight years old or 18, to broaden their self-conception, to consider ways they can meaningfully effect change and to build on their potential as leaders in their home communities.
Avik Sarkar, Angelica Hairston, Ariel Horowitz, and Karen Cueva are all alumni of the Boston-based organization, which shares its name with and produces NPR's From the Top with Host Christopher O'Riley.
They are the first recipients of From the Top's Arts Leadership Grant, which began earlier this year,launched in early 2017. The four will receive grants of up to $5,000 to support music-centric projects they've created that lay out a practicable path to positive
