Summer has kicked off with the first session of Franklin Pond Too, a quartet of rising 5th and 6th graders. This year, as has happened in a few previous years, we have a wonderful quartet of young musicians who were too young to apply to our Summer program. We designed an abbreviated program for them called Franklin…
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The final concert for the 14-15 Fall Into Spring program was May 18, 2015. Four groups performed works by Mozart, Beethoven, Ibert, Berlioz, and Shostakovich in Heritage Hall of Heritage Sandy Springs to a full house. Many thanks to all the students, parents, and coaches (Lachlan McBane, Jun-Ching Lin, Carolyn Hancock, Sou-Chun Su, Brad Ritchie,…
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The four student groups of our Fall Into Spring program took part in a masterclass led by ASO violinist Christopher Pulgram May 4th. Christopher is the founder and violinist with the Peachtree Quartet that performs regularly around the Atlanta area. The masterclass served also as a dress rehearsal for the final concert, May 18th…
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Our Franklin Pond Quartet is very busy this month! April 18, ASO Decorators’ Showhouse April 25, 6:45pm, Teen Night at the ASO in the Teen Lounge, Center Space of Woodruff Arts Center
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.
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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