NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Backstage at Fischoff / Show 306

About

From the Top comes to you from the premier competition for teenage chamber music in the country this week—The Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. We hear all the adrenaline-filled performances and Christopher O’Riley interviews the young musicians who have made it to the finals as they compete for the gold medal at this amazing gathering.

Performers & Repertoire

• Alegrar Quartet
  Inga Våga Gaustad , 16, violin; Oda Holt Günther, 15, violin; Michael Andreas Grolid , 17, viola; Brage Botn Seim, 16, cello

  "Shepherd's Dance," "Source," Sachidao," and "Rustic Dance" from Miniatures for String Quartet by Sulkhan Tsintsadze (1925–1991)
• Trio Adonais
  Sammy Andonian, 17, violin; Mari Nagahara, 16, cello; John Gibson, 18, piano

  "Soliloquy" by Shulamit Ran
• Incendium Quartet
  Geneva Lewis, 16, violin; Mei Zhan, 17, violin; Emma Wernig, 16, viola; Atticus Mellor-Goldman, 17, cello

  The first movement, Allegro non troppo, from String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2, by Johannes Brahms
• Incendium Quartet
  Geneva Lewis, 16, violin; Mei Zhan, 17, violin; Emma Wernig, 16, viola; Atticus Mellor-Goldman, 17, cello

  The first movement, Allegro sostenuto, from String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 92, by Sergei Prokofiev

Release Dates

• Monday, June 15, 2015
• Monday, December 21, 2015
• Monday, May 16, 2016
• Monday, January 16, 2017

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