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Move to Include: Celebrating Abilities • WXXI Classical

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Learn about seven artists with disabilities and their artistic works.

Move to Include: Celebrating Abilities is available on-demand at WXXIClassical.org.

WXXI Classical presents vignettes that highlight the following musicians and composers:

  • Valerie Capers African American pianist & composer who is blind
  • Evelyn Glennie Scottish percussionist who is deaf
  • David Helfgott Australian pianist who lives with schizoaffective disorder
  • Molly Joyce American composer, educator and performer who has an impaired left hand due to an automobile accident
  • Maurice Ravel French composer believed to have what today we know as Alzheimer’s disease
  • John Rutter British composer and conductor who experiences post-viral fatigue syndrome
  • Nick van Bloss British pianist diagnosed with non-swearing Tourette Syndrome
  • Dr. Jason Noble, Conductor with Essential Tremor
  • Pianist Jonathan Biss who experiences performance anxiety
  • Ana Karneza, singer and actress with physical deformity
  • Matthew Mack, hard of hearing cellist and mathematician
  • Joshua Mhoon, pianist born brain dead
  • Tobias Picker, American composer with non-swearing Tourette’s
  • Thomas Quasthoff, German-born bass-baritone with thalidomide deformity

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