From the Top to Receive National Endowment for the Arts Grant:
Award is among 1,023 Made Nationally
Boston, MA – Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.
In the second major grant announcement of the fiscal year 2015, the NEA will make a $45,000 award to From the Top to support educational outreach activities. Selected by audition, musicians that appear on the classical radio program From the Top With Host Christopher O’Riley will take part in the arts leadership workshops, which will help prepare young musicians to connect with new audiences, and to serve as positive peer role models. The musicians will perform concerts in school classrooms and community venues.
The NEA will make 1,023 awards totaling $74.3 million nationwide in this funding round.
NEA Chairman Jane Chu said, “The NEA is committed to advancing learning, fueling creativity, and celebrating the arts in cities and towns across the United States. Funding these new projects like the one From the Top represents an investment in both local communities and our nation’s creative vitality.”
“We are honored to receive the NEA’s recognition for our arts leadership work with young musicians, ” said From the Top Co-CEO Jennifer Hurley-Wales. “Though our NPR radio show is the most visible part of our organization, empowering our young musicians to develop their leadership skills and take music beyond the concert hall to new audiences is a critical part of our mission.”
To join the twitter conversation about this announcement, please use #NEASpring2015. For more information on projects included in the NEA grant announcement, go to www.arts.gov.
From the Top is America’s largest national platform celebrating the stories, talents, and character of classically-trained young musicians. Operating from Boston’s vibrant cultural district, From the Top produces nationwide media programs (like NPR’s From the Top Live with Christopher O’Riley), presents inspiring live performances in Boston and around the country, offers scholarships, and helps America’s talented, hard-working, and dedicated young musicians inspire music lovers of all ages.
Broadcast on nearly 230 stations nationwide to an audience of nearly half a million, From the Top has been described by The Boston Globe as, “an entertaining, accessible, and inspirational mix of outstanding musical performances, informal interviews, skits, and games, the show is a celebration of extraordinary musicians who happen to be teenagers leading fairly normal lives.” From the Top’s PBS television series From the Top at Carnegie Hall (2007-2009) won 2 daytime Emmy awards, and From the Top’s YouTube channel offers videos and behind-the-scenes insights.
Now celebrating its 15th anniversary, From the Top’s live recordings reach more than 20,000 live audience members of all ages across the United States each year. In conjunction with its national tour, From the Top’s Education & Outreach department offers leadership training to young artists and conducts classroom and community programs leveraging the power of its performers as role models for younger students.
From the Top’s radio program is made possible through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, and corporate underwriting from U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management. It is also supported through the generous contributions of individuals and institutions as well as public radio stations. From the Top’s founding partners are New England Conservatory and WGBH. Learn more at www.fromthetop.org.
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