Menlo student Elena Ariza ’16 will be taped during NPR’s “From The Top,” a public taping on Feb. 14, 8:00 pm at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She will play Debussy’s Cello Sonata 3rd movement and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18-6, 1st movement.

“From The Top” is a music event that features several talented classical musicians playing  the piano, cello and violin.  

Elena Ariza, a junior here at Menlo, studies with Eric Sung at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is also a member of the Cambiata String Quartet. Elena performed with the Palo Alto Philharmonic as winner of their concerto competition in 2013, and was also named a Grand Prize winner of the Diablo Valley College/Holy Names University Youth Competition in 2014. Elena performed at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall in 2012, as a winner of both the American Fine Arts Festival and American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition. She has attended the Aspen Music Festival and School in 2013 and the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute from 2010 to 2013. Outside of music, she enjoys crafting, particularly miniature paper crafts and 3D geometric origami.

The show will be released on NPR on March 9, 2015.