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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. Adam Mandela Walden at the 62nd Annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration. Official website for Cellist and Autism Advocate, Adam Mandela Walden.
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 ...
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.
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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26-year-old cellist Adam Mandela Walden shared some of his experiences with autism on From the Top’s Musicians with Disabilities Special. He has been working with Berklee College of Music’s Dr. Eugene Friesen on a special orchestral piece. Inspired by author Naoki Higashida’s book: The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old ...
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 ...
