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On Deck with Young Musicians

On Deck with Young Musicians

Saturdays at 5pm PT

On Deck with Young Musicians is an inspirational weekly interview segment that celebrates and showcases the incredibly talented young musicians who live and perform in the Pacific Northwest: the young people who are shaping the future of classical music. Created and hosted by Christa Wessel, select episodes of On Deck are also hosted by Adam Eccleston, Raúl Gómez-Rojas, and Lisa Lipton.  

Tune in Saturdays at 5:00 PM PT, and revisit past interviews using the links below or by following On Deck on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

If you know of a young musician who should be profiled for On Deck, please email Christa Wessel at christa@allclassical.org.  

On Deck with Young Musicians is made possible in part by support from the Metropolitan Youth Symphony.  


Annie Rhew

October 5, 2024

On Deck with Annie Rhew

Annie Rhew is a 16-year cellist with the Portland Youth Philharmonic.  She’s been playing cello since age 8 and has since won MANY awards.  Annie was also the “Healing Through Music” volunteer at OHSU for 2 summers and is currently working as a music therapy volunteer at a local hospice care group.  Lisa Lipton chats… More


Marcus Hanlon

September 29, 2024

On Deck with Marcus Hanlon

Marcus Hanlon has loved music since before he knew what an instrument was. He’s played the bassoon for over six years, three of which have been with the Metropolitan Youth Symphony.  He also loves science and is combining his love of electrical engineering and music by transcribing various pieces of music for Tesla coils. In… More


Mia Hale

September 22, 2024

On Deck with Mia Hale

18-year old oboist Mia Hale started off playing music with the violin and piano, but has made the switch to the double reed family! In this interview with Lisa Lipton, we dive deeper into finding what inspires her in music. Mia is a recent graduate of Parkrose High School and will be attending the University… More


Emory Yu Guyer

July 27, 2024

On Deck with Emory Yu Guyer

Emory Yu Guyer is an incoming freshman at University of Oregon Honors College. They will major in Music Education, and double minor in Spanish and Finance. Having graduated recently from Lakeridge High School, they were the jazz band’s bassist, wind ensemble’s flute section leader, and pep band’s student director. This year, both their jazz rhythm… More


Emily Wen

June 30, 2024

On Deck with Emily Wen

Emily Wen, a junior at Sherwood High School, plays in her school Wind Ensemble and marching band, and the Portland Youth Conservatory Orchestra.  This is Emily’s 6th year playing the flute and 5th year studying under Denise Westby.  She is the principal flute of the Sherwood High School Wind Ensemble and the Portland Youth Conservatory… More


June 22, 2024

On Deck with Charles A. Martin

Charles Martin is an 18-year old composer, pianist, actor, entrepreneur and writer.  In this episode of On Deck, Raul Gomez-Rojas talks with Charles about all of his interests, as well as his decision to perhaps skip college and make a living in the music world without a degree. Charles began taking piano lessons when he… More


Anika Gupta

June 15, 2024

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 to spread music in various… More


Miranda Newman

May 18, 2024

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 started violin at 4 years… More


May 11, 2024

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 all of these talents, and… More


Ian Sage

May 4, 2024

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 game music in his works… More


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