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Dec 22, 2021 · After Adam completed any song, she said “he would take a victory lap around the house.”. A cello, she thought, might keep him more grounded. So when he was about 5 or 6, she got him one. “And that was it. He was in love,” she recalled. “It literally became his voice.”. Adam is no stranger to the spotlight.
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 · The NPR show, which features young classically trained musicians every week, dedicated this episode to “celebrating and amplifying the voices of young disabled musicians.”. Walden is the first Berklee student featured on the show, and the first student with profound autism to attend Berklee.
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.
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.
Apr 18, 2009 · Adam Mandela Walden plays a piece by Bréval at the National Cello Institute in June 2008, on the campus of Pomona College. Adam studies classical cello with Francesca Bori....
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Apr 24, 2020 · Adam Walden, an accomplished cellist and student, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, as seen in the new HBO documentary, Autism: The Sequel
