Giving Tuesday

This year we are partnering with Cumberland Community Foundation to participate in #GivingTuesday–a national day of giving that will take place on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025.

We are asking our donors to give local this year by donating through CCF’s Giving Tuesday catalog. More details will become available later this fall.

Contact our staff at info@fayettevillesymphony.org or (910) 433-4690 with any questions.

There are many ways to give!

  • Credit card – Give $25 or more through the online catalog by clicking on the Donate Now button above between November 24th at 9am and December 2nd at 11:59pm.
  • Check – Write your check payable to “Cumberland Community Foundation” with “GivingTuesday – FSO” in the memo.
    • Checks must be received by CCF no later than December 2nd to be eligible for a match. 
    • Mail checks to CCF, PO Box 2345, Fayetteville, NC 28302
    • Drop off checks at CCF, 308 Green Street, Fayetteville, NC 28301 using the secure mail slot located on the front, street-facing side of our building. This mail drop is accessed only by the staff of CCF.
  • Donor advised grant – Make your grant recommendation payable to Cumberland Community Foundation (Tax ID 58-1406831) and designated for GivingTuesday-FSO.
  • Stock gifts – Call Cumberland Community Foundation at (910) 483-4449 (Mary Holmes x103 or Mary Anne Brooks x106) for instructions.
  • Charitable IRA Rollovers – Donors 70.5 or older may make gifts directly from their IRA to Cumberland Community Foundation for GivingTuesday. (Your plan administrator must send the check directly to CCF. To ensure prompt gift acknowledgement, give CCF a call (910)483-4449 or send an email to Gifts@CumberlandCF.org to let them know the amount of the check, the name of your plan administrator, and which charitable organizations you wish to benefit.)

Please help us take advantage of this tremendous opportunity to amplify your generosity.

Featured Musician

Concertmaster – Dr. Fabián López

Violinist Fabián López has toured extensively through the United States, Europe, China, and South America, gaining recognition as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. As soloist he has performed with orchestras in the United States, Spain, and France such as Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, Hebert Springs Festival Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Málaga, etc. Fabián was a member of the Manuel de Falla String Quartet from 2000-2003 and currently is the first violin of the Carlos Chavez String Quartet. In North Carolina he has appeared as concertmaster of the Greensboro and Asheville Symphonies. Currently he is the concertmaster of Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra.

In the pedagogical terrain, he is an active and dedicated teacher, maintaining a studio of prize winning, talented, and committed students. He taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music“Manuel de Falla” of Cádiz, Spain from 1999 to 2004 and has been teaching at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2007. Regularly he presents master classes through the United States, Mexico, China and Europe. In the summers he teaches at the Richard Luby International Violin Symposium in Chapel Hill and the Eastern Music Festival.

Fabián has a very diverse and extensive education that makes him “…a violinist that has everything…” and “…expressively thought with distinctive flair…” according to the press. At age eighteen he received a scholarship from the Hispanic-American Joint Commitee/Fullbright Commission to continue his studies in the United States. He holds degrees from the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga (Spain), Baylor University (MM), and The University of Michigan (DMA). He has also studied at Louisiana State University, San Francisco Conservatory, and Reina Sofia School of Music. His teachers have been: Nicolae Duca, Zakhar Bron, Laura Kugherz, Kevork Mardirossian, Camilla Wicks, Bruce Berg, and Andrew Jennings.

Fabian’s love for etudes and infinite curiosity of the trades from the great masters of the past and present, leads him to be the author of a violin etude anthology “Master the Violin Etudes”. This project has evolved to be a YouTube channel with video recordings and explanatory texts as well as a website. Recently, he has released a double album “Opuses Favoritas” with Inara Zandmane:

He performs on a violin made in 1768 on loan by an anonymous donor.

Experience his recordings:

E. Toldra: Soneti de la Rosada

P. Tchaikovsky: Valse Sentimentale

J. Suk: Appassionato

R. Schumann: Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. Movement 1

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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