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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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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Franklin Pond students and faculty have been busy in the last two weeks! They have played six Community Concerts all over the Atlanta area. Two of the quartets performed for about 180 students of the Upbeat! Camps, held at three public schools. There were also concerts at the Sandy Springs Library (for the 6th year)…
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Nick Curry, master cellist and teacher from the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, worked hard with our students last Monday. He coached the Ravel Quartet and ran an energetic masterclass, hearing all our groups. Sunday evening he worked with five cellists in a solo cello masterclass. Nick grew up in Atlanta and…
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Many thanks to the wonderful Vega String Quartet for working with the students today! It was a terrific day at Emory’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. The students had a full day of coaching and rehearsals—just before the first outreach concerts kick off. Here are a handful of photos from the day.
