11-year-old pianist Kevin Bao to appear on PBS' From the Top

Just when one more doomsayer predicts the end of classical music, you turn on "From the Top" and you're bowled over by all of the amazingly talented kids out there. The Saturday morning's NPR radio show has expanded now to TV, and very soon, you'll see a local prodigy featured on the PBS-TV show.

Kevin Bao, 11, of Mason, a sixth-grader at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, will be in New York on March 21, for the taping of a live concert in Carnegie Hall. Bao, who made his concerto debut in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Blue Ash/Montgomery Symphony last September, will perform Rachmaninoff's "Polichinelle."

Christopher O'Riley hosts the show. The radio show has aired twice from Cincinnati's Music Hall, featuring our region's rich local talent.

Kevin studies with Sergei Polusmiak, artist in residence and Neyer Professor of Music at Northern Kentucky University.

We expect this show to air over PBS in May. Stay tuned.

Click here to hear Rachmaninoff play his own "Polichinelle."