Barbara Shipp – Cello

Barbara Shipp, cellist, performs regularly throughout eastern North Carolina as a soloist, orchestral player, and chamber musician. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from East Carolina University and a Master of Library Science degree from NC Central University. A former orchestra director for Pitt County and Cumberland County Schools, Barbara is now a freelance cellist and private instructor of cello. She is the Lower Strings Coach for Fayetteville Symphony Youth Orchestra and Sinfonietta, Director of the FSYO Cello Choir, and a Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra Chamber Music Coach. Barbara is a member of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, Barton Wilson Symphony Orchestra, and Fayetteville Symphony String Quartet. She is the owner of Crystal Coast Musicians, a wedding and event booking service, and resides in Wallace, North Carolina with her husband, Jimmie, and their many rescued pets.

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.