Contact Us

Jesse Hughes

Executive Director

jhughes@fayettevillesymphony.org

Stefan Sanders

Music Director/Conductor

ssanders@fayettevillesymphony.org

Monica Thiriot

Operations and Education Manager

operations@fayettevillesymphony.org and education@fayettevillesymphony.org

Jill Mahurin

Patron & Communications Manager

jmahurin@fayettevillesymphony.org

To reach us by phone, please call our office at (910)433-4690 during our regular office hours:

Monday-Thursday: 9:00am-5:00pm

Address

308 Green St., Suite 200

Fayetteville, NC 28301

Mailing Address

Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra

P.O. Box 302

Fayetteville, NC 28302

Featured Musician

Dr. Cat Keen Hock – Third Clarinet, Bass Clarinet

Dr. Catherine Keen Hock, originally from eastern North Carolina, has found a home teaching and performing in the Piedmont Triad area of NC. Currently, Cat is the bass clarinetist for the Fayetteville and Salisbury Symphony Orchestras and is a member of the woodwind faculty at the Music Academy of North Carolina. Cat is an avid supporter of new music, especially chamber music, and is a founding member of the award-winning ensemble Quintet Sirocco. She completed a DMA in Clarinet Performance and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Historical Musicology at UNC Greensboro in 2012, and her previous degrees include a MM in Performance from UNCG and a BA with Honors in Music Performance from Wake Forest University. Cat has studied with Kelly Burke, Anthony Taylor, Edwin Riley, Eileen Young, and Michael Waddell.

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.