Young Musicians of Note

Clarinetist Ian Dodd appears on this week's episode of From the Top.

On this week's "My Unsung Hero" from Hidden Brain, Angela Zhao played in her first piano competition when she was ten. She was nervous and worried in the waiting room but someone showed her kindness.

Flutist Madelyn Zoller and trombonist Edwin Osorio each appear on this week's episode of From the Top.

Joaquín Chávez, originally from Callao, Peru, studied clarinet at Interlochen Arts Academy. He recorded his From the Top session in IPR's Studio A, where he performed music of Malcolm Arnold.

Two high school pianists visited Studio A to perform music of Kapustin and Gershwin.

Iam Tongi is the first Pacific Islander to win American Idol. His dad died a few months before Tongi's audition, which he says his mom signed him up for and pushed him to practice.

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! turns 20 this month. To mark the anniversary, Willems and Renee Fleming presented the pigeon's story in an opera at the Kennedy Center.

First Saniya wrote poems. Then she began rapping. Now she appears on TV and YouTube and before big crowds, spreading her message about justice. Her father the rickshaw driver is her chauffeur.

A teenager in a hijab is Mumbai's latest hip-hop sensation. Saniya Mistri Qayammuddi raps about growing up Muslim and female in India.

Grand Rapids native Julia LaGrand has spearheaded programming with From the Top for classical musicians who have disabilities.