Bravo to the students who played on our Fall Into Spring Finale Concert (May 2)! The kids played beautifully with a lot of heart and soul. These groups really bonded through the program. Our two Drew Charter Orchestra groups played a great concert at their school last week and we had one other group that…
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The Franklin Pond Quartet enjoyed performing at Crossroads Community Ministries in April.
Some Franklin Pond faculty members traveled to New York City with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to play at the Robert Shaw 100th Birthday Celebration concert at Carnegie Hall. What an event! They all loved playing there!
On Monday, April 11, we had a great last masterclass of the season for Fall Into Spring with Brad Ritchie, cellist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It was a cello year! The final concert is Monday, May 2 at 7:00 PM in Heritage Hall of Heritage Sandy Springs on Blue Stone Road.
Four members of our faculty and one alumna have been coaching two quartets at Drew Charter Junior and Senior Academies. The Drew Quartet and the Colbert Quartet have been working hard preparing for the Fall Into Spring final concert (Monday, May 2) and a school concert in April. Many kudos to Natalie Colbert, who started…
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What a terrific evening with Dr. Nick Curry! The “S4zando Quartet”This speaks for itself! Posted by Franklin Pond Chamber Music on Monday, February 8, 2016
One of our Franklin Pond summer groups played at the Ronald Sachs Violins Cobb opening last August. Sheela Su, mother of violinist Julia Su, runs the store, and Julia’s dad, Sou-Chun Su, is principal 2nd violin of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Stop in the store when you are in Cobb (or any of Ron’s other…
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend was a big one for Franklin Pond! David Nesmith from Columbus, Ohio came to Atlanta to give classes and private lessons in Alexander Technique and Body Mapping. David is an excellent teacher! He taught us all about how the body works, what we can do to avoid problems,…
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As part of our MLK weekend events, Danny Laufer, associate principal cellist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, came to work with three of our groups during the first of three masterclasses offered to our Fall Into Spring students.
September 27th Jun-Ching Lin performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Georgia Tech orchestra. Just last spring he played the Tschaikovsky Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. The Franklin Pond Quartet has been busy with a performance in Fayetteville November 17th and two performances for Crossroads Community Ministries for the homeless at St. Luke’s…
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