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Young Artist Program Student Yurie Mitsuhashi to Appear on NPR Show “From the Top”
From the Top, the non-profit organization best known for its NPR and PBS programs featuring America's best young classical musicians, has awarded Yurie Mitsuhashi, an 18-year-old violinist in Kaufman Center’s Young Artist Program, with a $10,000 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award. She will be heard on a radio episode of “From the Top,” broadcasting nationally on NPR stations the week of February 1 and heard locally on WQXR Sunday, February 7, at 10 pm. The broadcast can also be heard at http://www.fromthetop.org/ that same week and will remain in the online archive.
On the broadcast Yurie performs “Danse Hongroise” by Sergei Rachmaninoff with host Christopher O’Riley. The episode was recorded before a live audience at Baylor University in Waco, Texas on November 11, 2009, and also includes a 17-year-old organist from College Station, Texas, an 18-year-old violinist from New Jersey, a 15-year-old cellist from Brandon, Mississippi and a 16-year-old fiddler from Lorena, Texas. For the past decade, “From the Top” has been the preeminent showcase for America’s best young musicians. Through award-winning NPR and PBS programs, online media, a national tour of live events and education programs, “From the Top” shares the stories and performances of pre-collegiate musicians with millions each week.
Originally from Japan, Yurie moved to the U.S. at age six to expand her studies in music and eventually came to study as a scholarship student at Kaufman Center’s Young Artists Program. In 2007 she won the Kaufman Center Concerto Competition and had the opportunity to perform as a soloist with an orchestra in Merkin Hall. Now a senior at Fort Lee High School in New Jersey, Yurie has been part of a trio selected to perform at the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society's Young Musician's Concert for the past three years. Kaufman Center’s Young Artists Program is a comprehensive music program for teens in grades 9-12. Click here for more information: http://kaufman-center.org/special-music-school/young-artist-program
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