2020-2021 Virtual Concert Season

String Quartet in G Major, Andante by Florence Price

Klap Ur Handz by Daniel Bernard Roumain

Lyric for Strings by George Walker

Sinfonia XI, No. 2 in D Major by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Quiet City by Aaron Copland

Serenade for Flute, Harp and Strings by Howard Hanson

Ave Maria by Franz Schubert

Featuring Kylie Toerpe, Soprano

A Virtual Hallelujah Chorus

Beethoven Piano Sonatas with Dr. Scott Marosek

Talking Beethoven with FSO Music Nerd, Dr. Joshua Busman

Symphony No. 4, Mvt. I by Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 7, Mvt. II by Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 8, Mvt. II by Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 5, Mvt. I by Ludwig van Beethoven

Starburst by Jessie Montgomery

Variations on a Shaker Melody – From Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland

Featured Musician

Jessica Miller – Principal Oboe

Jessica Miller holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education with a Performance Certificate from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Music degree in Oboe Performance from Florida State University. Her teachers, respectively, were Rebecca Nagel and Eric Ohlsson. Miller is the Principal Oboist with the Long Bay Symphony in Myrtle Beach, SC, Second Oboe in the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, and a frequent freelance player. Other organizations with which she plays include the Charleston, Augusta, and Hilton Head Symphonies and the South Carolina Philharmonic. While living in Florida, she had the opportunity to perform with the Tallahassee, Pensacola, and Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestras. As well as maintaining an active private studio, Jessica is a faculty member, teaching oboe, at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Coastal Carolina University. She lives in Myrtle Beach, SC with her husband Robbie and daughter Maggie.

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To Educate. To Entertain. To Inspire.

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1956 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and is a professional, regional orchestra whose mission is to educate, entertain, and inspire the citizens of the Fayetteville, North Carolina region as the leading musical resource. Praised for its artistic excellence, the Symphony leads in the cultural and educational landscape for Fayetteville and the southeastern North Carolina region.

The Fayetteville Symphony typically performs 8 concerts during any given season performing both at Methodist University and Fayetteville State University. Partnerships with other agencies include collaborative performances with Cape Fear Regional Theatre, chamber concerts at St. John’s Episcopal Church, as well as the city’s annual Independence concert with fireworks. The Symphony brings music to the schools and the community by performing educational concerts, as well as having its own Fayetteville Symphony Youth Orchestra, after school strings and summer music camps.

This organization is supported in part by a space grant from the BB&T Term Endowment of Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc.