From the Top created a series of Classical Music Pop Covers featuring a variety of young musicians and guest artists. They are credited here.

“Best Day of My Life” Cover

Derek Wang, piano
Yuki Beppu, violin
Haig Hovsepian, violin
Martine Thomas, viola
Lev Mamuya, cello
Christopher Laven, bass
Brian Nam, percussion

Singers: Neo Gcabo, Brooke Graves, Isabel Fox, Lena Harris, Alexis Lujares, Allysa Lujares, Marija Milenkovic, Madeline Parascandola, Julianne Schochet, Lucy Sinclair

Teacher: Kent Sinclair

“GØ” with Snarky Puppy

Michael League, bass/bandleader
Marcelo Woloski, percussion
Sena Cho, violin
Olivia Elerson, flute
Noah Lee, cello

“Stressed Out” with Project Trio

Michael was featured on our music video of “GØ” as part of our See the Music video series.

Michael League is a 3-time Grammy Award-winning musician based out of Brooklyn, New York. He is the creator and bandleader of instrumental music ensemble Snarky Puppy and world music group Bokanté, co-owner of Atlantic Sound Studios, and founder of the record label and music curation source GroundUP Music.

Michael attended the University of North Texas’ jazz studies program for 4 years, then moved to nearby Dallas for another 3 years, where he worked with some of the most influential figures in modern gospel, R&B, and soul music, and was mentored by legendary keyboardist Bernard Wright (Miles Davis, Chaka Khan) before moving to Brooklyn, New York, in 2009, where he currently resides. As an instrumentalist and producer, he has worked with a diverse range of artists in pop (David Crosby, Laura Mvula, Lalah Hathaway, Joe Walsh), gospel (Kirk Franklin, Walter Hawkins, Marvin Sapp, Israel Houghton), jazz (Terence Blanchard, Esperanza Spalding, Joshua Redman, Wayne Krantz, Chris Potter), and world music (Salif Keïta, Eliades Ochoa of the Buena Vista Social Club, Susana Baca, Carlos Malta, Väsen).

In 2016, he started the band Bokanté. Blending influence from blues, rock, Caribbean, and West African styles, the group includes an all-star cast of musicians from 4 different continents. Bokanté spent 2017 touring around the world in support of their debut album, Strange Circles. Their second album, a collaboration with the Grammy-winning Metropole Orkest under the baton of Jules Buckley, will be released in fall of 2018.

GroundUP Music, formed in 2011, has moved from independent record label (home to albums from David Crosby, Charlie Hunter, Becca Stevens, Cory Henry, Banda Magda, and many more) to live event curation, launching the annual GroundUP Music Festival in 2017 in Miami Beach, Florida. It has played host to artists like Béla Fleck, Esperanza Spalding, The Wood Brothers, Robert Glasper, Concha Buika, Terence Blanchard, Joshua Redman, Jacob Collier, Chris Thile, Knower, and Pedrito Martinez, among others.

Michael is passionately committed to music education and outreach, having given clinics and masterclasses at over 200 schools around the world. He is active as a guest speaker in international music business panels and works regularly with non-profit organizations in an effort to better serve the community at large through the arts.

Marcelo was featured on our music video of “GØ” as part of our See the Music video series.

Representing South America in the Snarky Puppy family, Marcelo Woloski is a Latin-Grammy winning percussionist, drummer and composer from Buenos Aires based in New York City. His broad array of sounds, versatility, masterful skill, charismatic personality and unique approach to percussion setups and orchestration has made him the to-go person for recording artists, producers and arrangers throughout the globe. While very active in the NY scene, the Berklee College of Music graduated percussionist, is also constantly touring the world with different artists and groups like Banda Magda, GUBB, and the groups of Sofía Ribeiro, Farah Siraj, and Nicolas Ospina. Performing and recording credits include grammy winning artists such as Ruben Blades, Susana Baca, Lalah Hathaway, Marta Gomez, The Kronos Quartet, and Arturo O´Farril. Marcelo is a Latin Percussion and Garrahand drums endorser, and is currently working on his debut album to be released in 2016.