YAO's "New Traditions"

Images by Bill Kendig.

The Fine Arts Center's Orchestra-in-Residence, the Young Artist Orchestra, performed its opening concert of the 2008-2009 season, "New Traditions," on Thursday, October 16, at the Peace Center for the Performing Art's Dorothy Gunter Theater. The concert, lead by YAO conductor Dr. Gary Auguste Robinson, included Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, featuring orchestra member Kevin Tompkins (Wade Hampton High School, fine Arts Center, 12) as soloist, and Jules Massenet's "Scenes Alsaciennes" (7th Suite). Additionally, YAO gave a double performance of Alex Wroten's "Zukunftsangst." Wroten is a 2005 graduate of the Fine Arts Center and is completing a double degree in music composition and computer science at the University of South Carolina. Alex composed "Zukunftsangst" for the Young Artist Orchestra.