Interlochen Arts Academy student quintet featured on From the Top

Published June 16, 2021 at 12:28 PM EDT

L-R: Aidan Krieger, Valerie Xu-Friedman, Najee Greenlee, Gabriel Hennebury, Emma Boyd

On this week's episode of From the Top, recent Interlochen Arts Academy graduate Najee Greenlee is featured.

Greenlee is a recipient of From the Top's Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award.

A clarinetist, he performs a movement from the Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with four of his student colleagues.

Greenlee is 18 years old and from Flint, MI. The other musicians in the performance are Aidan Krieger, 17, violin from Southfield, MI; Valerie Xu-Friedman, 17, violin from Williamsville, NY; Emma Boyd , 17, viola from Madison, AL; and Gabriel Hennebury, 17, cello from Ann Arbor, MI.

Hear this week's episode Saturday at noon on Classical IPR, or listen on demand on the From the Top website.

The students recorded their performance in IPR's Studio A.

Bryan Conger is their instructor.

Najee Greenlee (back with black mask) and student colleagues (L-R Gabriel Hennebury, Valerie Xu-Friedman, Emma Boyd and Adrian Krieger) post outside of IPR before their From the Top recording session. Their instructor Bryan Conger is at far right. — Najee Greenlee (back with black mask) and student colleagues (L-R Gabriel Hennebury, Valerie Xu-Friedman, Emma Boyd and Adrian Krieger) pose outside of IPR before their From the Top recording session. Their instructor Bryan Conger is at far right.