Franklin Pond Quartet at Crossroads
Franklin Pond Quartet performs their annual concert for Crossroads Community Ministries.
Franklin Pond Quartet performs their annual concert for Crossroads Community Ministries.
Members of Franklin Pond Chamber Music and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra joined forces at the Woodruff Arts Center’s #CreateATL Family Fun Day on Sunday, December 11 and gave rousing performances of Antonio Vivaldi’s “Winter” from The Four Seasons. Many thanks to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta for providing the awesome venue!
Last Thursday (December 8), Lachlan McBane and Jun-Ching Lin (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra musicians & Franklin Pond faculty) hosted about 130 elementary chorus students at Woodruff Arts Center Symphony Hall. They showed the kids around the hall — backstage and downstairs — then played a concert for them in rehearsal hall. The kids had lots of…
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The Franklin Pond Quartet played a wonderful lunchtime concert last Friday (November 11) at The Galloway School. The program included cameo performances by headmaster and cellist Suzanna Jemsby, flutist and parent Jane Blount, and Galloway student cellist Ilana Hilley who is now enrolled in the Franklin Pond Fall Into Spring program. Thank you, Peggy Benkeser…
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We are proud of 2015 Alumna Julia Su who just won the State Solo Competition sponsored by MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) in the senior division, competing with students up to 18 years old. This qualifies her to move to the Southeast regional competition in January, 2017. Good luck, Julia!
We are excited to announce that Christopher O’Riley of NPR’s “From The Top” will be one of the three judges for the Competition. The May 28th concert will include performances by the judges, the Franklin Pond Quartet, and, of course, the Competition winners. Mark the date on your calendars now and don’t miss this wonderful…
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Faculty member Brad Ritchie played beautifully last Tuesday (October 25) at Abernathy Arts Center for Sandy Springs Reads. He played special selection of Albinoni and music from a Bach cello suite.
Our Summer Finale Concert was held on Tuesday, July 26. The day before was our last Monday coaching and a run-through of the concert for the next day with Jun-Ching Lin presiding. We did something differently this year for the concert and have gotten a lot of good feedback about it. The students introduced themselves…
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The week of July 18 was Community Concert week! The concerts were at Huntcliff Summit, Sandy Springs Day Camp, Sandy Springs Library, and Canterbury Court. The students practiced what they learned about public speaking at Tom Key’s masterclass and played beautifully. Everyone can see they are having a good time but have worked really hard…
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On Friday, July 22, we all went to Allgood Media and Bill Allgood recorded each group while the others listened and marked observations in their scores. They then compared notes with the performing group as they heard the recording together. Thank you Bill for doing this (and Gloria for the great and much needed refreshments!).…
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