2025/2026 Family & Community Concerts


Independence Concert

Friday, July 4, 2025 | Gates Open at 6pm, Concert Starts 7:30pm | Festival Park

This beloved family tradition is held in partnership with the City of Fayetteville. All are welcome to attend at no charge.


Nosferatu Movie Night

Saturday, October 25, 2025 | 8:00pm | Dirtbag Ales

Enjoy a spooky movie with your Fayetteville Symphony! A small ensemble will perform along with a screening of the silent 1922 classic, Nosferatu. All are welcome to attend at no charge.


Messiah with Cumberland Choral Arts

Saturday, December 13, 2025 | 7:30pm | Huff Concert Hall

Generously supported by the Ralph and Linda Huff endowment for Messiah. We are collaborating with Cumberland Choral Arts again this holiday season to perform Handel’s Messiah at Methodist University. We hope you can join us for this holiday tradition! Tickets are required to ensure everyone has a seat in the concert hall, and can be reserved at no charge by clicking the button below (coming soon).


Side by Side Concert

Sunday, March 15, 2026 | 4pm | Huff Concert Hall at Methodist University

Our mission to educate, entertain, and inspire our community will be on full display with our annual side-by-side concert, where the Fayetteville Symphony Youth Orchestra performs alongside our world-class musicians. To learn more about FSYO click here. Tickets are required. Learn more and purchase your tickets using the link below.


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.


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