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Endowments

Consider contributing to the FSO endowment, individual giving, or legacy giving. Click on the button below to view the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra’s Guide to Giving.

GIVING GUIDE

2015 Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Endowment Video Courtesy of Moonlight Communications.

Since 1956 the Symphony has educated, entertained, and inspired generations.  Resources are needed to continue the legacy.  Ticket sales, sponsorships, grants, sales, and gifts provide annual operating revenue.  Legacy Giving ensures that the brilliant performances of the Symphony continue.  Legacy Giving creates financial stability, attracts instrumental talent, and builds lasting relationships.

Supporting the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra endowment ensures that our programs can continue to impact future generations. 

Our endowment fund is held by Cumberland Community Foundation and was established with a gift from Berte Howell to endow the Assistant Concertmaster chair.

Your Legacy Gift will Educate, Entertain and Inspire.

Consider a gift of cash, an insurance policy, a gift in your will, appreciated stock, real estate, and other tangible property towards the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra endowment fund.

Or, establish your own endowment fund to support the Symphony.  Your gift will ensure that the Symphony plays on and on and on.

To learn more about giving options through the FSO Endowment Fund, please call the Symphony Office at (910)433-4690 or the Cumberland Community Foundation at (910)483-4449.

Endowed Chairs

In order to build a stable financial base for the FSO into the future, an Endowed Chairs Program was instituted in 2004 at the Cumberland Community Foundation with a gift made by Mrs. Berte Howell.

We honor our chair-holders and their loved ones with permanent listing in the concert program. Chair naming opportunities begin at $35,000. 

To learn more about our Chair Underwriting program, call the FSO office at (910) 433-4690.

All endowments are held at Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc., PO Box 2345, Fayetteville, NC 28302 (910)483-4449

 Conductor’s Podium

The Fouad K. Fakhouri Endowment for Artistic Excellence

Given by Anonymous Donors

In Honor of Fouad Fakhouri, Music Director 2004-2016

Youth Orchestra Endowment

Gillie Shaw and Riddick Revelle Youth Orchestra Scholarship Endowment

Given by Gillie Revelle

Concertmaster Chair

Will Gillis Military Appreciation Endowed FSO Chair

Given by William John Gillis

This chair is currently held by Dr. Fabian Lopez.

Principal Players’ Society

Principal Viola | Principal Viola Endowed Chair

Given Anonymously

This chair is currently held by Dr. Clark Spencer. 

Principal Cello | The Carlos Zukowski Memorial Endowment

Given by Terri Union in loving memory of her husband, Carlos Zukowski

This chair is currently held by Nate Leyland.

Principal Flute | The Barbara Terry Chair

Given by Ellenor and Dan Barker

This chair is currently held by Sarah Busman.

Principal Oboe | Grace Butler Keith Chair

Given by Anne and Tom Keith

This chair is currently held by Jessica Miller.

Principal French Horn | Robert Drake Chair

Given by Robert Drake

This chair is currently held by Steve Skillman.

Principal Trumpet | Susan and Richard Shereff Chair

Given by Susan and Richard Shereff

This chair is currently held by Dr. Tim Altman.

Principal Tuba | Phoebe Edna Williams Curl Chair

Given by Edna Curl (posthumously)

This chair is currently held by Jarrod Williams and Nicholas Psihountas (Acting Principals).

Principal Piano | Principal Piano Endowed Chair

Given Anonymously

This chair is currently held by Dr. Scott Marosek.

Players’ Society

Assistant Concertmaster | Berte Dean Carter and AA Howell, Jr. Endowed Chair

Given by Berte D. Carter Howell

This chair is currently held by Megan Kenny

Second Violin | Leroy Anderson Chair for the Last Chair in Second Violins

Given Anonymously

This chair is currently held by Jessica Caviness.

Second Viola | Dr. Glen Kenney Memorial Chair

Given by Elizabeth Keeney in loving memory of her husband.

This chair is currently held by David Phillips. 

Second Cello | Deborah and Walter Greene Chair

Given by Deborah and Walter Greene in memory of Aliene S. Greene

This chair is currently held by Jesse Smith

Second String Bass | William F. Grimes and Frances Loy Grimes Endowment for String Bass

Given by Frances Loy Grimes

This chair is currently held by Stuart McLemore. 

Second Clarinet | Michael and Lynette Green Chair

Given by Michael and Lynette Green in loving memory of the Samuel Fine Family, John and Ursula Green and Carlos Zukowski

This chair is currently held by Nathan Miller-Olawsky.

Second Trumpet | The Marion Cusak Vonnegut & Norbert Josef Vonnegut Chair

Given by Joseph Vonnegut and Family

This chair is currently held by Dean Oaks. 

Other Endowments

Shirley & Jim Konneker Endowment for the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra

Given by Shirley and Jim Konneker

Featured Musician

Dr. Rebecca Libera – Second Bassoon

RLibera-250Dr. Rebecca Libera is currently a bassoon performer and private studio teacher, as well as the executive director of Music for a Great Space, a non-profit group committed to bringing great chamber music to the great spaces of Greensboro.  She currently performs with the Fayetteville Symphony, Salisbury Symphony, Western Piedmont Symphony, and in various chamber ensembles, and has also performed with the North Carolina Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, and the Arizona Wind Symphony.  Before relocating back to the Piedmont Triad in 2011, Rebecca was a K-8 Elementary General Music and Band teacher in Phoenix, AZ.  Also a published author, her articles have appeared in the Journal of Band Research as well as Arizona Music News.  In addition to her music teaching and performance, Rebecca is an Occupational Hearing Conservationist and a Hearing Instrument Specialist, working for a private audiology practice in Greensboro. A graduate of UNCG, Rebecca has taught at Wake Forest University and UNCG.

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.


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