Board and Staff

Board of Directors

Mark Regensburger, Chair

David Guidi, Vice Chair

Doug Stephens, Treasurer

My Linh Nguyen, Secretary

Fred Cutter | Phil Hedrick | John Turner | Keri Walters

Amy Steffan | Dwight Smith | LaTasha Patterson | Patti Monroe

Brittany Dickerhoff | Georgette Miller | Richard Shereff | Meagan Kramer

Musician Representatives on the Board

Sarah Busman | Linda Lane | Clark Spencer

Administration

Stefan Sanders, Music Director

ssanders@fayettevillesymphony.org, 910-433-4690

Jessica Munch-Dittmar,
Executive Director

edirector@fayettevillesymphony.org,
910-747-7463

Thomas Hill, Marketing & Office Manager

office@fayettevillesymphony.org, 910-433-4690

Stuart McLemore, Operations Manager

operations@fayettevillesymphony.org, 910-747-7603

Dr. Daniel McCloud, Assistant Conductor, FSYO Band Director, FSB Director

band@fayettevillesymphony.org

Kristin Stiteler, Youth Orchestra Director

kstiteler@fayettevillesymphony.org

Laurel Wachtler, String Sinfonietta Director

lwachtler@fayettevillesymphony.org

Barbara Shipp, Cello Choir Director

info@fayettevillesymphony.org

Featured Musician

Carey Sleeman, Second Violin Section

Carey Sleeman has been playing the violin for the past 28 years. Starting when she was 7 and played throughout grade school. She attended the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam in Potsdam New York where she studied violin with Professor John Lindsey and Nancy Peschko. Carey received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in music education in 2011 and 2012 respectively. After completing her degrees, Carey moved to Kenya where she would spend the next 5 years teaching and mentoring young string players and playing with the Nairobi Orchestra. She then moved back to the United States with her Family and has been teaching in the public school system in Fairfax Virginia and now Fayetteville for the past 5 years. She is now pursing a career as a curriculum developer and is looking forward to growing her private studio and spending time with her family.

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.