Board and Staff

Board of Directors

Zach Pritchett, Board Chairman

Lou Brooks, Vice Board Chair

Alton Booth, Treasurer

Frances McDuffie, Recording Secretary

Winnie Grannis, Corresponding Secretary

Jennifer Brown | Brenda DePaola | Kensley Edge | Rhonda Haskins

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

Monica Thiriot, String Education Coordinator

education@fayettevillesymphony.org

Dr. Josh Busman, FSO Music Nerd

Featured Musician

Robert Garbarz – Violin

Robert Garbarz is a violinist and from Apex, North Carolina. He performs in several ensembles in the Triangle area and beyond, including the Fayetteville Symphony, the Carolina Philharmonic, and the MARS String Quartet. He received his M.M. in Violin Performance from UNC- Greensboro and a B.M. in Violin Performance from UNC- Chapel Hill. His primary teachers include Fabian Lopez, Richard Luby, and Nicholas DiEugenio. He also dedicates much of his time to teaching.

Robert is equally active on the baroque violin. He has attended the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin Conservatory several seasons as well as Tafelmusik’s Baroque Summer Institute. He was concertmaster and frequent soloist with the UNC Baroque Ensemble under the direction of Brent Wissick, and has also performed with UNC’s Faculty Baroque Ensemble and the Baroque & Beyond concert series in Chapel Hill.

Aside from violin, Robert also enjoys conducting. He studied with Tonu Kalam while at UNC and was the director of the UNC Lab Orchestra for its 2014-2015 season. Additionally, Robert was a founding member and co-director of the Raleigh Festival Orchestra.

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.