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Featured Musician

Sarah Busman – Principal Flute

Flutist and teacher Sarah Busman hails from Tennessee and was educated at Middle Tennessee State University and The Peabody Conservatory of Music. Sarah has performed with numerous ensembles, including the Baltimore Symphony, the Moscow Ballet’s Maryland tour pit orchestra, and currently as principal flute of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra and the Carolina Philharmonic. As a pedagogue, Sarah has presented at the Mid South Flute Festival and the Raleigh Area Flute Association Flute Fair. She has been teaching flute lessons for almost ten years, including as the applied flute professor at the Community College of Baltimore County and currently as the adjunct applied flute teacher at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Currently, Sarah resides in Durham, North Carolina with her husband and hound dog where she maintains a private flute studio of over 20 students.

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.