Two BSA Students To Participate In White House Arts Series

(Baltimore) - Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA) students Nana Adjeiwaa-Manu (sophomore, violin/cello) and David Kalwa (senior, guitar) will join First Lady Michelle Obama and the President as well as other arts students from across the nation at an exclusive musical arts workshop at the White House. On Wednesday, Nov. 4, Adjeiwaa-Manu and Kalwa will participate in classes with master musicians violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, guitarist Sharon Isbin and pianist Awadagin Pratt.

This event will mark the fourth in the White House Music Series, which was designed to demonstrate the importance of arts education. The First Lady launched the series as a tribute and celebration of musical arts. Previous events in the series have focused on jazz, country and Latin music.

Adjeiwaa-Manu and Kalwa will be two of the 120 middle and high school students participating in the workshops on Wednesday. Following the workshops, the master musicians will perform a concert in the East Room.

The Music Series is in coordination with The VH1 Save The Music Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring instrumental music education programs in America's public schools, and raising awareness about the importance of music as part of each child's complete education.

Founded in 1980, the Baltimore School for the Arts is recognized as one of the country's pre-eminent schools whose graduates go on to the most selective arts and university programs nationwide and achieve prominence in theater, film, music and visual arts. The Baltimore School for the Arts strives to provide young people with intensive pre-professional training in the arts, in the context of a rigorous college preparatory curriculum.

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