Chris Buddo, Bass Section

Double bassist, J. Christopher Buddo has performed with orchestras in the South and
Mid-West including: the Fort Worth Symphony, the Waco Symphony (Principal Bass),
the Des Moines Symphony, the Quad-City Symphony (Assistant Principal Bass), and
the Roanoke Symphony. He has appeared with festivals in Door County, Wisconsin
and Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania. As a conductor he has led numerous university
opera productions, he was the director of the Iowa City Youth Orchestra, and he was
the founding conductor of the Waco Symphony Youth Orchestra. He has held faculty
and administrative positions at Baylor University and is currently on the faculty at East
Carolina University. At ECU he served as Director of the School of Music then Dean of
the College of Fine Arts and Communication before becoming the Hardy
Distinguished Professor of String Pedagogy and Double Bass.

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.