For the second year in a row, a member of the Mobile Symphony
Youth Orchestra will represent Alabama in the prestigious Kennedy Center Summer
Music Institute.
Kemp Jernigan, a senior at Gulf Shores High School and principal oboe with
the MSYO, was selected to the National Symphony Orchestra/Kennedy Center Summer
Music Institute in Washington, D.C. He will receive an all-expenses-paid four
weeks of study with the NSO and Opera House in Washington.
State finalists, selected by audition, are submitted to the Kennedy Center
for final decisions. Fifty-five students nationwide were selected for the
orchestra, with only two oboes.
The fellowship includes chamber music study, conducting, orchestral works and
private lessons with prominent conductors and musicians. Students perform
as an orchestra and in chamber groups, presenting public concerts on the Kennedy
Center Millennium stage and in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.
Kemp has been principal oboe with the Youth Orchestra for three years and
principal oboe for the Alabama All-State Orchestra the past two years. He
attended the New England Conservatory for two summers, Eastman Music summer
program, and the Ameropa Chamber Festival in Prague in 2007.
In the fall he will attend the Hartt School of Performing Arts in West
Hartford, Conn., on full scholarship. He was selected by audition for membership
in Hartt's prestigious 20/20 honors chamber music program.
In 2007 violinist Peter Kim, concertmaster for MSYO, was Alabama's
representative to the Kennedy Center Program.
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