We’ve always known JoMS student Alex had a special talent for violin—and now the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts is confirming it.

Alex recently found out he’d passed the Governor’s School’s super-competitive audition and will attend the four-week residency program this June at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Alex, 16, is a junior at Karns High School and has been a student at JoMS since 2011. He studies with volunteer teacher Stan Smith. He performs with the Karns High School Orchestra and in the Chamber Orchestra of the Knoxville Youth Orchestra Program.

Gov. Lamar Alexander founded the School for the Arts in 1984, creating a program for gifted high school students that would rival the nation’s best summer arts schools. Students in the instrumental music program participate in orchestra or piano ensemble and take classes in theory, conducting, improvisation, and world music.

He is very much looking forward to his summer. Says Alex: “I heard a lot of good things about Governor’s School from other kids who attended, so I was very excited when I got the acceptance letter with the full scholarship and everything!”

 

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