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2015 Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Endowment Video Courtesy of Moonlight Communications.

Click here for the Endowment Brochure.

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:

  1. Expand the number of students served through the music education program
  2. Increase the variety and location of music performances
  3. Maintain the artistic excellence achieved with the leadership of Maestro Fakhouri
  4. 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 Dr. Andrew Smith.

 

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

 

Second Violin

Leroy Anderson Chair for the Last Chair in Second Violins

Given Anonymously

This chair is currently held by Laurel Wachtler.

 

Cello

Deborah and Walter Greene Chair

in memory of Aliene S. Greene

This chair is currently held by Brianna Tam

 

String Bass

William F. Grimes and Frances Loy Grimes

Endowment for String Bass

Given by Frances Loy Grimes

This chair is currently held by Nathaniel Goldsmith.

 

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

This chair is currently held by Dr. Larry Wells

Featured Musician

Dr. Clark Spencer – Acting Principal Viola

Clark SpencerViolist and Violinist Clark Spencer is an active solo, chamber, and orchestral performer living in Wilmington, NC. He is currently assistant principal viola of the Oregon Mozart Players and a founding member of the Blue Box Ensemble. Clark has performed with the Fayetteville Symphony (NC), Long Bay Symphony Orchestra (SC), Eugene Symphony, Eugene Opera, the Corvallis Symphony, Newport Symphony, and the Oregon Bach Festival. He has had the privilege of performing under the batons of Andrew Linton, Marin Alsop, Jeffrey Kahane, Helmut Rilling, and Gunther Schuller.

Originally from Lancaster, PA, Clark earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in performance from Boston University, where he studied viola with Michelle LaCourse and violin with Peter Zazofsky. He recently completed his Doctorate in Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Oregon where he studied with Dr. Leslie Straka. His doctoral research on the Sonata in G by Paul Ben-Haim culminated in a new edition for solo viola. Clark has also studied with Martha Strongin Katz and Jeffrey Irvine. He has performed in masterclasses with Kim Kashkashian, Arnold Steinhardt, Roger Tapping, Pamela Frank, the Ying String Quartet, the American String Quartet, the Orion String Quartet, and the Muir String Quartet.

Clark is an experienced violin and viola teacher. He completed his long term Suzuki training with Karin Hallberg and Louise Scott during his studies at the University of Oregon. In addition to his own studio, Clark has taught for the University of Oregon’s Community Music Institute, where he taught group classes, coached chamber music and conducted a middle school string orchestra. He also coached violin and viola sections of the South Salem High School Chamber Orchestra and the Salem Youth Orchestra. During the summers of 2009 and 2010, Clark served on the faculty at the Vermont Youth Orchestra’s Summer Program, Reveille!

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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