Chicago Defender: 'Local teen continues to be standout violinist'

The young African American violinist Clayton Penrose-Whitmore is making quite a name for himself! This year alone, he has been featured in AfriClassical four times: (1) February 21 as first-place Laureate of the 2008 Sphinx Competition junior division. (2) April 10 as the violinist who played Here's One by William Grant Still on a new Cedille Records CD. (3) October 3 in a Chicago Tribune story on three years of success with the Sphinx Organization. (4) October 7 as soloist in the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra's Chicago debut at the Harris Theater. On October 8, 2008 Clayton Penrose-Whitmore was profiled in a feature article by Earl Calloway in the Chicago Defender, “Local teen continues to be standout violinist.” It begins: “Clayton Penrose-Whitmore began studying the violin at 4 years old, and by the time he was 9, he had made his orchestral solo debut.”