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.
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 Chai
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