Board and Staff

Board of Directors

Zach Pritchett, Board Chairman

Lou Brooks, Vice Board Chair

Rhonda Haskins, Treasurer

Frances McDuffie, Recording Secretary

Winnie Grannis, Corresponding Secretary

Jennifer Brown | Brenda DePaola | Kensley Edge

Mary Flagg Haugh | Patrick Leclair | Martha Lerario | Savanna Samuelian

Richard Shereff | Dwight Smith | Maria Villena | Kevin Ward

Musician Representatives on the Board

Warren Ferguson | Laurel Wachtler

Administration

Stefan Sanders, Music Director

ssanders@fayettevillesymphony.org

Julia Atkins, Interim Executive Director

jatkins@fayettevillesymphony.org

Dr. Larry Wells, Youth Orchestra Director

lwells@methodist.edu

Anna Meyer, Community Engagement Manager

ameyer@fayettevillesymphony.org

Dr. Josh Busman, FSO Music Nerd

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.