There is no such thing as a better day annually on the Tiny Desk, for this music nerd, than after we host younger musicians from the group referred to as From the High. By its 25 years of radio broadcasts, digital content material and fellowships, FTT is a strong platform that showcases and helps younger musicians across the nation. And the three teenaged artists they’ve gathered right here will renew your religion in the way forward for music.
13-year-old Cameron Renshaw, from Byron Heart, Mich., is a born entertainer. “I actually pour my coronary heart out every time I play,” he instructed Ellen DeGeneres when he appeared on her program at age 9. He was so exuberant he most likely might have hosted the present himself. For us he performs a difficult piece on a single string of his cello by the nineteenth century violin hotshot Nicolò Paganini. The calm smiles on Renshaw’s face belie the problem of the music as he fingers wispy harmonics and leans into severe shredding.
Violinist Laura Jin, a 12-year-old wunderkind attending the pre-college program at Juilliard, is likely to be tender spoken, even shy, however she thrives on hazard. Which is why she’s taking part in Wieniawski‘s flamboyant Polonaise Op. 4. “I actually get pleasure from this piece as a result of it has many technical difficulties,” she explains earlier than launching right into a thicket of double stops, pizzicato and harmonics, providing a sterling tone and preserving the splendor and swagger of the piece.
Rhyuhn Inexperienced, a sartorially resplendent 18-year-old from Philadelphia, lives a double life as each a unprecedented pianist and a composer fielding commissions. He’ll launch his debut album this month. He wrote the Impromptu “Symbiosis” at age 9 and it has advanced ever since, with its wealth of hummable tunes, romantic prospers a la Chopin and a billowing, passionate crescendo.
In the long run, our Tiny Desk crew — together with an viewers of doting mother and father and From the High staffers — all knew that one thing necessary and form of miraculous had taken place. Collectively, we created a doc for the world to witness the highly effective message of nice music made by the subsequent technology of very advantageous musicians.
SET LIST
- Nicolò Paganini: Variations on One String on a theme by Rossini (excerpt)
- Henryk Wieniawski: Polonaise de Live performance, Op. 4
- Rhyuhn Inexperienced: Impromptu in F minor “Symbiosis”
MUSICIANS
- Cameron Renshaw: cello; Eden Chen: piano (Paganini)
- Laura Jin: violin; Eri Kang: piano (Wieniawski)
- Rhyuhn Inexperienced: piano (Inexperienced)
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Tom Huizenga
- Director/Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Kara Body, Maia Stern, Joshua BryantÂ
- Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
- Manufacturing Assistants: Ashley Pointer, Elle Mannion
- Photographer: Sofia Seidel
- Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
