Cameron performs on Show 443.

Cameron Renshaw (cello), 12, lives in Byron Center, Michigan. He has been playing cello for six years and currently studies with Pablo Mahave-Veglia at Grand Valley State University.

This past November, he soloed with the Cape Symphony Orchestra, delivering joyous and heartfelt performances in two subscription concerts and two Young People’s Concerts. At the age of eight, he made his orchestral solo debut with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. He has been featured numerous times on local and national media and in a performance on “The Ellen Degeneres Show” in 2020. As a first place or grand prize winner of numerous international competitions, he has had the honor of performing in some of the world’s greatest concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall, Mozarteum Salzburg, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Romanian Athenaeum.

He received the “First Great Award” in the Junior Division at both the fourth Vienna International Music Competition (2023) and the sixth Manhattan International Music Competition (2022). Other awards include Grand Prize Virtuoso International (two-time recipient of both the First Absolute [100/100] and Exceptional Young Talent Special Prizes) and First Place in the Camerata Artists International Competition 2020. Notable performances the following year include his solo appearance with the Kamarata Stradivarius Orchestra (Bucharest, Romania), Boccherini Cello Concerto in G Major with the Grand Valley State University Cello Ensemble, and a performance of popular electric guitar solos (Metallica and Black Sabbath) on his electric cello at Graceland Live in Memphis, TN. This summer, he will attend Morningside Music Bridge, an international, full scholarship-based program. In the summer of 2023, he attended the Heifetz Institute as a scholarship recipient. He is looking forward to a solo performance with the Holland Symphony Orchestra (Holland, MI) in their 2024/25 subscription series.

Cameron is passionate about promoting music education to the next generation, spreading the joy of music to school kids through outreach efforts and Young People’s Concerts throughout the country. In March 2023, he hosted and performed a benefit concert for his favorite school teacher, Sierra Zylstra, who suffers from Osteosarcoma, to a sold-out crowd at Wealthy Theatre in Grand Rapids.

Outside of music, Cameron enjoys tennis, making sushi, and fast rapping.

Peter was named Host of From the Top in January 2020.

Peter Dugan’s position is sponsored by Susan and Gerald Slavet.

Peter first appeared on From the Top Show 158, recorded in April 2007, at age 18.

Prizing versatility as the key to the future of classical music, pianist Peter Dugan is equally at home in classical, jazz, and pop idioms.

He is heard nationwide as the  host of NPR’s beloved program From the Top.  He has appeared as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician across North America and abroad. 

In 2020, Mr Dugan performed with Joshua Bell on a PBS Broadcast “At Home with Music” and appeared on  the album of the same name on Sony Classical. He was also featured on PBS Great Performances with mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan for the series “Now Hear This”.

A sought-after multi-genre artist, Mr. Dugan has performed in duos and trios with artists ranging from Itzhak Perlman and Renee Fleming to Jesse Colin Young and Glenn Close. Mr Dugan’s debut performances with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony were described by the Los Angeles Times as “stunning” and by the SF Chronicle as “fearlessly athletic.” The Wall Street Journal described Mr. Dugan’s collaboration with violinist Charles Yang as a “classical-meets-rockstar duo.” Mr. Dugan has been presented in chamber music recitals by Carnegie Hall, Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Music at Menlo, Moab Music Festival, and recently in recital with Joshua Bell at the Minnesota Beethoven Festival.  He was the 2019 featured recitalist for the California Association of Professional Music Teachers, and has soloed with the San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, New World Symphony, and Mid-Texas Symphony.

His album with baritone John Brancy –  A Silent Night: A WWI Memorial in Song – pays homage to composers who lived through, fought in, and died in the Great War. Brancy and Dugan toured this program across North America in commemoration of the centennial of WWI, including performances at The Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Stanford University, the United States Naval Academy, and the Smithsonian Institute.  Together Brancy and Dugan won first prize at the 2018 Montreal International Music Competition and second prize at the 2017 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. He can also be heard as the piano soloist on a recording of Ives’ Fourth Symphony from Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, a recording which the New York Times named one of the top classical albums of 2019. 

Mr. Dugan advocates the importance of music in the community and at all levels of society.  As a founding creator of Operation Superpower, a superhero opera for children, he has traveled to dozens of schools in the greater New York area, performing for students and encouraging them to use their talents – their superpowers – for good.

Mr. Dugan holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied under Matti Raekallio. He was a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Young Scholar, College Scholar, and Graduate Scholar awards.

He resides in New York City with his wife, mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan, and serves on the piano faculty at the Juilliard School Evening Division. Mr. Dugan is a Yamaha Artist.