On Deck with Young Musicians

  • On Deck with Anika Gupta

    On Deck with Anika Gupta

    Anika Gupta is one of All Classical’s 2024 Young Artist Ambassadors.  She is currently a sophomore at Sunset High School. She has always loved music and picked up the guitar during middle school. Since then, her passion for guitar has only grown! She currently studies under Travis Johnson and loves…


  • On Deck with Miranda Newman

    On Deck with Miranda Newman

    Adam Eccleston introduces us to violinist Miranda Newman, a third-year political science major and music minor at Reed College. Her first year of college she received the Kaufman Fellowship for violin performance and has been a part of many of Reed’s music local ensembles including orchestra and chamber music. She…


  • On Deck with Haruka Sakiyama

    On Deck with Haruka Sakiyama

    Haruka Sakiyama is a 17-year old junior at West Linn High School, and one of All Classical Radio’s 2024 Young Artist Ambassadors.  Haruka is a French horn player, a violinist, a composer… and she also plays the koto.  In this episode of On Deck, Raul Gomez-Rojas talks with Haruka about…


  • On Deck with Ian Sage

    On Deck with Ian Sage

    Ian Sage is a 21-year-old junior at Portland State University currently studying composition and percussion. In college, composing has become a natural extension of his love for playing and listening to music. In this episode hosted by Adam Eccleston, Ian talks about taking influences from classical, jazz, film, and video…


  • On Deck with Pearl Liao

    On Deck with Pearl Liao

    Raul Gomez-Rojas talks with 18-year old cellist Pearl Liao, a cellist with the Portland Youth Philharmonic. Pearl has some wisdom to share about practicing, and she also tells us about her future goal to be a surgeon.


  • On Deck with Nikita Istratov

    On Deck with Nikita Istratov

    Christa Wessel chats with 17-year old pianist Nikita Istratov, a senior at Sunset High School and one of the winners of Cognizart’s Young Artist Debut Concert on May 17th.  In this episode of On Deck, Nikita talks about his love of classical music, his curiosity about how creative people became…


  • On Deck with Katelyn Nguyen

    On Deck with Katelyn Nguyen

    Raul Gomez-Rojas chats with 17-year old bassoonist Katelyn Nguyen, one of All Classical Radio’s 2024 Young Artist Ambassadors.  In this episode of On Deck, we’ll learn not only why she chose the bassoon, but why she has chosen to play in both the Metropolitan Youth Symphony AND the Portland Youth…


  • On Deck with Sophie Bergkvist

    On Deck with Sophie Bergkvist

    Sophie Bergkvist is in the midst of her first season with the Metropolitan Youth Symphony (MYS), where she plays trumpet with the Concert Orchestra and Symphonic Wind Ensemble.  She began playing trumpet at the age of 10 by joining her school band.  She enjoyed it so much, that she decided…


  • On Deck with Eden Warmflash

    On Deck with Eden Warmflash

    Eden Warmflash is a 16-year old junior at Portland’s Cleveland High School, and a percussionist with the Metropolitan Youth Symphony.  In her chat with Raul Gomez-Rojas, Eden talks about the various categories of percussion instruments, some misconceptions about percussionists, and how playing in musical ensembles helps her as a dragon…


  • On Deck with Kaden Prichard

    On Deck with Kaden Prichard

    Kaden Prichard is a 15-year old freshman at Rex Putnam High School where he plays in the Wind Ensemble under Jeff Wilson. He started playing clarinet in the third grade and has been a student of Dunja Marcum since then. When he’s not gaming or relacing a pair of sneakers,…