New in 2027: Carnegie Hall Link Up
Every year FSO musicians visit select elementary schools in Cumberland County Schools (CCS) to give fifth grade students engaging presentations and informative Q&A sessions supplementing the music teachers’ own work with a curriculum designed by Carnegie Hall to make students active music-makers by singing, dancing, or playing instruments together. This curriculum prepares the students for an interactive performance from the Symphony in the spring each school year, where the orchestra will perform the songs students have been learning in class. Students are encouraged to join in the performance as they did in the classroom before. This concert is often the first introduction for these students to a live symphonic concert experience. Learn more at the Carnegie Hall Link Up Website. This program was previously the FSO’s “Peter and the Wolf” concert, presented to third-grade students in a similar way.
We are grateful for United Way of Cumberland County’s Youth Growth Stock Trust for making this program possible with their generous support.
High School Musician Mentoring
FSO professional musicians are available to visit middle schools and high schools to help mentor music students of Cumberland County. This program offers the students the opportunity to learn more detailed performance techniques of their instrument and the chance to learn from some of the top performing musicians of North Carolina. For specific inquiries, please email operations@fayettevillesymphony.org.
School Visits
If you are interested in scheduling a school visit by our professional musicians, contact us by email at operations@fayettevillesymphony.org.
Violist Warren Ferguson has been a member of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra since 2008. He is also a member of other regional orchestras including the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, Musica Chamber Ensemble, the Wilson Symphony Orchestra, and the Carolina Philharmonic. He performs the majority of the weekends of the year. He is a past member of the Long Bay Symphony and Dayton Philharmonic and has played with the North Carolina Symphony and Durham Symphony. He also plays violin, including classical, popular, Irish and Celtic music, bluegrass, and jazz, appearing with other talented like minded musicians. He studied viola performance at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music where he received his Bachelors of Music, and went on to receive a Masters in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at Wright State University and studied Irish traditional music at the University of Limerick. His regular day job is as a software engineer. He considers written music in many respects, as the first programming language. He loves to play music and finds it helps provide a good life balance that brings enjoyment to many.
