FSO Venues

SEASON CONCERTS

Seabrook Auditorium

1200 Murchison Road Fayetteville, NC 28301

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra’s season concerts include Spooktacular, Holiday Pops, Music of Appalachia, and Bad to the Bones will be at Seabrook Auditorium located on the beautiful campus of Fayetteville State University. This venue is wheelchair accessible with handicapped parking and specified seating.

*Please note that we offer a complimentary shuttle service from the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra office to Seabrook Auditorium for all season concerts including Spooktacular, Holiday Pops, Music of Appalachia, and Bad to the Bones. The shuttle will pick up riders at the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra office, 310 Green Street, Fayetteville, NC 28301, in the main parking lot at 6:30 pm only. Reservations are not required, and it is free to use! The trolley does not run for chamber concerts.

For more detailed venue information please email Meghan Woolbright, Marketing & Office Manager.

CHAMBER CONCERTS

St. John’s Episcopal Church

302 Green Street Fayetteville, NC 28301

Right in the center of Downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina, St. John’s Episcopal’s sanctuary provides an intimate experience for patrons to experience classical performances. This venue is wheelchair accessible with specified parking, seating, and an emergency exit. Parking is available at St. John’s Episcopal Church or the FSO parking lot (310 Green Street, Fayetteville, NC 28301). There is also free parking in Downtown Fayetteville on the weekends. For more detailed venue information please email Meghan Woolbright, Marketing & Office Manager.

Haymount United Methodist Church

1700 Fort Bragg Road, Fayetteville NC 28303

Haymount United Methodist Church is wheelchair accessible with specified parking on site, seating, and an emergency exit. For more detailed venue information please email Meghan Woolbright, Marketing & Office Manager.

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

400 Campbell Ave, Fayetteville, NC 28301

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church is wheelchair accessible with specified parking on site, seating, and an emergency exit. For more detailed venue information please email Meghan Woolbright, Marketing & Office Manager.

Huff Concert Hall

5400 Ramsey Street, Methodist University, Fayetteville, NC 28311

The John M. Reeves Fine Arts Complex is a cultural venue for the Fayetteville community, where people of all ages come to enjoy concerts, theatre productions, pageants, lectures, and other special events. This venue is wheelchair accessible with handicapped parking and specified seating. There are several parking lots located near Huff Concert Hall. For more detailed venue information please email Meghan Woolbright, Marketing & Office Manager.

Featured Musician

Dr. Clark Spencer – Principal Viola

Violist 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!

Mailing Address: Arts XL 214 Burgess St Fayetteville, NC 28302	Office Location: 310 Green St., Suite 101 Fayetteville, NC 28301
P: (910) 433-4690 F: (910)433-4699	Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm
info@fayettevillesymphony.org