Amy Robinson

The cast includes singer Rachel Clokey; pianist Rebecca Fick; Middle Ground, a Fairfax singing group; Westford violinist Amy Robinson, a member of the Vermont Youth Orchestra; singer and past-FCTC-president Muffy Sterling; a large group of singers from Fairfax; a tap dancer; and others from around Franklin and Chittenden County.

The VYO concert will feature VYO soloists Amy Robinson and Maria Schwartz performing Max Bruch's First Concerto and Francois Borne's Carmen Fantasy plus the world premiere of A Momentary Opening by Brookfield, Vermont, composer Erik Nielsen.
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Amy Robinson played flute in middle school and sang in the Essex Madrigal choir for four years. A senior at Essex HS, she is now focused on violin which she has played since she was three years old. She solos with Max Bruch's Violin Concerto in Friday's concert. "My older brothers took violin lessons," she said. "I would sit and listen at their lessons and bug their teacher to let me play and to teach me." At age 4 as a Suzuki student, she played for Prince Edward in Canada. Ms. Robinson also won first place in the Enosburg Talent Show Junior Division four years ago and took second place in the Senior Division last year.
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Ms. Robinson will begin the concerto with a series of quiet exchanges with the orchestra. The score calls for her violin to be at first timid and then to grow fearless in a tense clash with the timpani and tremolando strings. She will alternate between a sweet, relaxed theme and a tense and restless rhythmic motif.
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Look for Ms. Robinson's vocal knowledge in the way she changes tone quality and distorts the rhythm of the phrasing. "It is an audition piece which I love," she said. She turned down suggestions of a Mozart concerto.
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Ella (Ms. Robinson) is named for Ella Fitzgerald. "We have a dog but I don't really like her," Ms. Robinson said.