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Adam Mandela Walden is an award-winning cellist and autism advocate currently in his senior year at Boston's Berklee College of Music. Official website for Cellist and Autism Advocate, Adam Mandela Walden.
Apr 20, 2023 · Walden came to Berklee to study with cello professors Eugene Friesen and Natalie Haas. He is currently working with Friesen on a musical composition based on the 2016 book The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a 13-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida.
Dec 22, 2021 · By Tara Lynn Wagner Downtown Los Angeles. PUBLISHED 5:14 AM PT Dec. 22, 2021. 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.
share. Today, we continue our series highlighting the beautiful orchestral work “Excerpts From the Reason I Jump”, featuring 26-year-old autistic cellist Adam Mandela Walden. The piece reflects what it’s like living with autism.
Adam studied classical cello at The Colburn School for The Performing Arts with Francesca Bori and graduated from Grand Arts/ Ramon C. Contines High School of Visual and Performing Arts. Adam performed with Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (YOLA). He was featured in HBO’s documentary “Autism The Musical” and “Autism: The Sequel”.
Nov 13, 2023 · We interview Rosanne Katon Walden, the mother of Adam Mandela Walden, a young man with autism with remarkable musical talent. At the age of 2 he taught himse...
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About. A Los Angeles native, Adam was diagnosed with moderate/severe autism at three years old and was also diagnosed as a prodigious music savant by the famed neurologist and author Oliver Sachs. At six, he played his 1/4 sized cello on MSNBC's exploration of the rise in autism diagnosis. Adam became the first autistic student requiring an ...
