3 of our Franklin Pond alums, Lee Sheehan, Sarah Park Chastain, and Jim Larson, subbed with the ASO a few weeks ago. They are all also alums of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra so I’m sure they felt at home on this stage! Sarah and Lee have been subbing for quite some time, but this…
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The Fall Into Spring “Paideia Quartet” gave a short performance Feb. 13 at Poem 88 Gallery for their Valentines Day Salon and Feb. 21 at an event at Trinity School for Trinity Presbyterian Church (see picture attached of quartet – not good but all I have)
All school and private teachers were invited to the Pond for a free teacher workshop and lunch with Melissa Kraut, well known pedagogue on the cello faculty of Cleveland Institute of Music. Melissa heard three students and everyone benefited from her great teaching techniques and the discussions that ensued. She talked quite a bit about the value of caring…
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Five of our Franklin Pond/Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra alumni — Lee Sheehan, Olivia Holladay, Patrick Shelc, Drew Forde, and Brandon Hou — plus 6 other ASYO alums, played in a FABULOUS concert. They collaborated with ASO musicians Jay Christy and David Coucheron and two of our Franklin Pond faculty, Jun-Ching Lin and Danny Laufer. It was…
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As everyone probably knows by now, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra musicians were locked out for the first 9 weeks of their season. Although the orchestra was idle, the musicians were not. They were very busy actively trying to gather support to save the integrity of the orchestra. Our Franklin Pond faculty was in the forefront,…
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Fall Into Spring is off to a good start. The four groups are coached by Carolyn Hancock, Brad Ritchie & Sou-Chun Su, Jun-Ching Lin, and Lachlan McBane & Elisabeth Remy Johnson. They are preparing for the MLK Day Teachers’ Workshop Masterclass with Melissa Kraut.
You are invited to the annual MLK Day Teacher Workshop and masterclass with Melissa Kraut, renown cellist and pedagogue from Cleveland Institute of Music. Monday, January 19, 2015 4835 Franklin Pond Rd., Atlanta Schedule for the day: 10-12:30 Teacher workshop 12:30-1:30 Lunch — chance to speak with Melissa and mingle with other teachers 1:30-3:30 Masterclass with chamber groups…
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The Franklin Pond Quartet has been busy lately, playing concerts around Georgia. We are so very lucky to have a faculty of musicians (9 of them) who are beautiful performing musicians as well as caring and awesome mentors. September 4: Concert at Berry College, Rome, Georgia September 14: Concert in Blue Ridge, Georgia, 2:00 pm at the…
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The Labor Day String Festival was a fun and busy day! Students and parents, many new to FP, were treated to a performance by the Shostakovich (ie. Gaggle) Quartet and learned about our many different programs. Then the students broke into audition excerpt groups where they performed their excerpts and got help from the faculty.…
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Wow! What an amazing concert! For those unlucky folks who missed the chamber music extravaganza, the Franklin Pond summer session concluded its season yesterday at Kellett Chapel with a stellar performance. It was a magnificent finale to terrific summer. There will be more to come as we wrap up the 2014 session, but we wanted…
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