On Deck with Young Musicians

  • On Deck with PJ Hummelt

    On Deck with PJ Hummelt

    18-year-old PJ Hummelt plays the French horn … not an easy instrument to master. He’ll tell us how he perseveres and why he loves classical music. PJ will also share… Read more On Deck with PJ Hummelt →


  • On Deck with Daniel Tang

    On Deck with Daniel Tang

    15-year-old violinist Daniel Tang recently won second place in Oregon’s State Solo Competition with a pretty spectacular performance of Pablo de Sarasate’s “Gypsy Airs.” We’ll hear that performance and learn… Read more On Deck with Daniel Tang →


  • On Deck with Sylvia Romero

    On Deck with Sylvia Romero

    In this episode of “On Deck” we’ll meet the youngest musician to have been featured on the show: 11-year-old Sylvia Romero. (Just because she’s young doesn’t mean she’s quiet and… Read more On Deck with Sylvia Romero →


  • On Deck with Olivia Langley

    On Deck with Olivia Langley

    Olivia Langley is an 18-year old oboist and singer, who also studies epigenetics and loves Marvel comic books. In this episode of On Deck we’ll meet Olivia and hear what… Read more On Deck with Olivia Langley →


  • On Deck with Geetha Somayajula

    On Deck with Geetha Somayajula

    Geetha Somayajula just graduated from Westview High School and is headed to USC’s Thornton School of Music in the Fall to pursue choral music. Her musical journey began at the… Read more On Deck with Geetha Somayajula →


  • On Deck with Jimmy Brown

    On Deck with Jimmy Brown

    18-year-old Jimmy Brown just graduated from Reynolds High School, and just aged out of the Portland Youth Philharmonic –where he played viola- and the Pacific Youth Choir –where he sang… Read more On Deck with Jimmy Brown →


  • On Deck at Bravo Youth Orchestras

    On Deck at Bravo Youth Orchestras

    Bravo Youth Orchestras is an organization which this year implemented the “El Sistema” method of music education in North Portland. For the past school year, Bravo has been in action… Read more On Deck at Bravo Youth Orchestras →


  • On Deck with Maeve Nagel-Frazel

    On Deck with Maeve Nagel-Frazel

    14-year-old violinist Maeve Nagel-Frazel just completed her final year at Sunnyside Environmental School – a “K-through-8” school which requires all graduating 8th graders to write and deliver a speech which… Read more On Deck with Maeve Nagel-Frazel →


  • On Deck with Nathan Kim

    On Deck with Nathan Kim

    14-year-old pianist Nathan Kim recently performed solo in Carnegie Hall. We’ll ask him about that experience, and hear the piece he played: Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15.    Nathan is… Read more On Deck with Nathan Kim →


  • On Deck with Forrest Palamountain

    On Deck with Forrest Palamountain

    Forrest is 18, and is just graduating from high school. He will be attending Northwestern University in the fall to double-major in violin and “Mid-East, North African Studies.” Forrest is… Read more On Deck with Forrest Palamountain →