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Upcoming Concerts

Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
Frederick Community College
J.B. Kussmaul Theater (Directions)

Pops Concert: Out of This World

Mendelssohn	Overture and Nocturne from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Webber/Custer	Selections from Phantom of the Opera
Holst/McAlister	Mars from The Planets
Custer	Star Trek Through the Years
Williams	Star Wars Suite

Back by Popular Demand!

The FSO will again perform during Frederick City’s free summer concert series in Baker Park with a concert on Sunday evening, June 21st. Come to the band shell near Talley Recreation Center at the intersection of W. 2nd and Bentz Streets and be prepared for a thrilling concert that will start at 7:00 pm.

We hope to see you there!

Auditions for New Orchestra Members!
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The Frederick Symphony Orchestra
Young Artist Competition

About the Frederick Symphony Orchestra's Young Artist Competition

Designed to encourage the best young musicians in Maryland, the competition rotates on a three-year cycle in the following sequence: Strings in 2009, Winds and Brass in 2010, and Piano in 2011.

Information about the 2010 Competition for Wind and Brass players will be posted on this page in mid-2009.

Congratulations to violinist Brian Kim, the Grand-Prize Winner of the Frederick Symphony Orchestra’s 2009 Young Artist Competition for Strings. Mr. Kim attends Marriotts Ridge High School in Marriottsville, Maryland, and is a violin student of Matthew Horwitz-Lee of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.

Brian was among 18 middle and high school age contestants from all across Maryland who participated in the annual competition in January of 2009, and was selected as the winner at the Young Artist Winner’s Circle Recital held on January 24th.

In addition to earning a cash award, Mr. Kim will be the guest soloist performing with the Frederick Symphony Orchestra at its “Young Artist Showcase” Concert on Saturday evening, March 7, 2009 at 8:00pm at the J.B. Kussmaul Theater (Directions) at Frederick Community College in Frederick, Maryland. He will perform the 1st and 2nd Movements of Dvorak’s Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53, accompanied by the Orchestra.