2015 Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Endowment Video Courtesy of Moonlight Communications.
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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 will ensure that future generations will be inspired by the very music that inspired our founders.
Our endowment goal is to raise $5 million. The endowment fund resides within the Cumberland Community Foundation and was established with a gift from Berte Howell to endow the Assistant Concertmaster chair.
A gift to the Symphony Endowment Fund will:
- Expand the number of students served through the music education program
- Increase the variety and location of music performances
- Maintain the artistic excellence achieved with the leadership of Maestro Fakhouri
- Financially sustain the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra
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.
EXCITING NEWS!
In November, 2017, we received an operating grant of $10,000 from Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc., as well as a challenge grant from The Ashton W. Lilly Fund for Philanthropy of Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc. This grant matched funds donated to the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Endowment up to $25,000 beginning November 1st, 2017.
Current 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.
Why not honor a loved one by endowing a chair of the FSO in their name? We honor our patrons of endowed chairs with permanent listing in the concert program. Naming opportunities are available for chairs endowed for $35,000 – $1,000,000.
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 Lilian-Terri Dahlenburg.
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 Nicholas Psihountas
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 Chang Zhang
Second Cello
Deborah and Walter Greene Chair
in memory of Aliene S. Greene
This chair is currently held by Jesse Smith
String Bass
William F. Grimes and Frances Loy Grimes
Endowment for String Bass
Given by Frances Loy Grimes
This chair is currently held by Tyler Goodwin
Second Clarinet
Michael and Lynette Green Chair
in loving memory of the Samuel Fine Family, John and Ursula Green and Carlos Zukowski
Given by Lyn and Michael Green
This chair is currently held by Nathan Olawsky
Second Trumpet
The Marion Cusak Vonnegut & Norbert Josef Vonnegut Chair
Given by Joseph Vonnegut and Family
Second Viola
Dr. Glen Kenney Memorial Chair
Given by Elizabeth Keeney in loving memory of her husband
This chair is currently held by Dr. Clark Spencer
Other Endowments
Shirley and Jim Konneker Endowment for the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra
Given by Shirley and Jim Konneker
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.
