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Apr 9, 2024 · BOSTON — Adam Walden has been playing the cello for twenty years -- and is now studying cello composition and performance at Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship. Adam also has moderate to severe autism. His home state, California, funded a 35-hour-per-week autism specialist to help Adam get through his classes in Boston.
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Dec 22, 2021 · Cellist with autism finds his purpose, voice in music. LOS ANGELES — For Adam Mandela Walden, the cello isn’t just an instrument. It’s how he interacts with the world. Adam was almost a year old when his mother, Roseanne Walden, says he stopped talking and making eye contact. He was diagnosed with moderate/severe autism and didn’t speak ...
Adam Walden’s best friend is his cello — and that’s just fine with him. Like all children with autism and related disorders, the 8-year-old boy from Los Angeles has trouble interacting with ...
Apr 20, 2023 · “Having profound autism is a lot of hard work. I have to work very hard to talk to anyone about anything,” Adam Mandela Walden, cellist and performance major, told listeners on a recent episode of NPR’s From the Top after he performed the intermezzo from Goyescas. “I have autism-related epilepsy. I have 40-plus seizures every day.
Adam Mandela Walden (cello), 26, was born in Los Angeles, California and began studying the cello at age 6. Diagnosed with moderate/severe autism and epilepsy at age 3, music has long been a source connection and communication for Adam. Currently, Adam is attending Berklee College of Music/Boston Conservatory at Berklee on a full academic ...
Mar 6, 2024 · The 23-year-old woman busted last week in the caught-on-video bottle attack on a subway cellist was arrested again Tuesday after a judge released her despite pleas that she be held on bail....
Mar 1, 2023 · Adam Mandela Walden, a 26-year-old cellist from Los Angeles, California, who believes his musical skills are sharpened by his autism Grace Novacheck , a 16-year-old pianist from Westlake, Texas, who shares her journey with music and Escobar Syndrome with more than 105k TikTok followers as @thegracenova
