What Child is This?
What Child is This?
From the Top alums Benjamin Wenzelberg and Anna DeLoi Kirby perform a stunning rendition of “What Child is This?” for countertenor and harp.
From the Top alums Benjamin Wenzelberg and Anna DeLoi Kirby perform a stunning rendition of “What Child is This?” for countertenor and harp.
Benjamin appeared most recently as a vocalist on Show 338 in New York, NY on April 23, 2017, and has also been featured as a composer on Show 316 in Rochester, NY, on January 17, 2016.
Show 338 bio:
Benjamin Wenzelberg (voice), 17, is from Tenafly, New Jersey and has appeared onstage as a singer, composer, conductor, and pianist. He has performed as soloist and chorister with the Metropolitan Opera for eight seasons, and as a soloist with such companies/venues as New York City Opera, Atlanta Opera, the NY Philharmonic, Shakespeare in the Park, Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. Benjy studies composition with Dr. Eric Ewazen at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division. Hearing his BMI award-winning composition performed on From the Top with host Christopher O’Riley by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra was a memorable musical experience. He made his European composition and conducting debut with another orchestral composition at the Grafenegg Festival in Austria; the piece won first prize and will be reprised by the Tonkünstler Orchestra at Vienna Musikverein’s Golden Hall. The opera he composed for family audiences, “The Sleeping Beauty,” won an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and their Charlotte V. Bergen Scholarship. He is a proud National Merit Scholarship Winner and a US Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Benjy loves to travel and experience foreign languages and cultures.
Anna DeLoi first appeared on Show 215 in Portland, Maine in 2010 at age 14. She returned with her duo partner for Show 247, recorded in February 2012, at age 16.
Show 247 bio:
Elan Duo (Stephanie Curcio, coach) is comprised of 16-year-old violinist Nash Ryder from Arundel, Maine, and 16-year-old harpist Anna DeLoi from Plaistow, New Hampshire. Anna and Nash were both participants in From the Top’s Center for the Development of Arts Leaders in Boston.
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