FSO & Fairfax County Public Schools ARTS INTEGRATION SHOWCASE

The Fairfax Symphony has been proud to partner with FCPS for more than 40 years, with a variety of education programs designed to enhance learning through music.

Arts Integration inspires students to learn through FSO concert repertoire, supporting multidisciplinary subjects of Math, Science, English, History, and Social Studies, in addition to Music and Art.

Tonight’s Repertoire Inspires Learning & Creativity

The FSO is delighted to showcase artwork and poetry created by students from Woodburn School for the Fine and Communicative Arts and Westlawn Elementary inspired by Jessie Montgomery’s “Banner.”

Taking inspiration from The Star Spangled Banner and other world anthems, Montgomery’s original composition embraces the diversity of the various cultures and ethnic groups living in the U.S. of the 21st century. Westlawn Elementary students studied and explored Banner, reflecting on themes such as unity, freedom, belonging, and acceptance, while responding to the music through visual artwork and creative writing.

Montgomery “Banner” Inspires Hope

Before Jessie Montgomery composed Banner, she asked herself “What would an anthem for the 21st century sound like in today’s multicultural environment?”

Third Grade Woodburn Elementary students listened to “Banner” and reflected on its themes, responding through words and visual art in the form of metal etchings assembled into a quilt, with a border reflecting words the music inspired…. “Hope,” “Peace” and more.

Wire Sculptures Connect Students with the FSO

FCPS students recently had an opportunity to “perform” with the FSO for their culminating “Link Up” concert in partnership with Carnegie Hall on April 25 at GMU.

On display this evening is Woodburn & Westlawn students’ “Wire Sculpture Orchestra” created to represent their connection to the musicians of the FSO.

Zuill Bailey

Zuill Bailey, widely considered one of the premier cellists in the world, is a Grammy Award winning, internationally renowned soloist, recitalist, Artistic Director and teacher. His rare combination of celebrated artistry, technical wizardry and engaging personality has made him one of the most sought after and active cellists today.

Mr. Bailey has been featured with symphony orchestras and music festivals worldwide. He won the Best Solo Performance Grammy Award in 2017, for his recording of Michael Daugherty’s “Tales of Hemingway,” with the Nashville Symphony led by Giancarlo Guerrero. His extensive discography includes his newest release –his second recording of the Bach Cello Suites for PS Audio’s Octave Records label, recorded and mixed in stereo and multichannel sound.

He appeared in a recurring role on the HBO series “Oz,” and has been heard on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” “Tiny Desk Concert,” “Performance Today,” “Saint Paul Sunday,” BBC’s “In Tune,” XM Radio’s “Live from Studio II,” Sirius Satellite Radio’s “Virtuoso Voices,” and his latest disc of Bach Suites was the disc of the week on Sirius’ Symphony Hall.

Mr. Bailey received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Peabody Conservatory where he was named the 2014 Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Alumni, and received a Master’s Degree from the Juilliard School. He performs on the “rosette” 1693 Matteo Gofriller Cello formerly owned by Mischa Schneider of the Budapest String Quartet.

He is the Artistic Director of El Paso Pro-Musica (Texas), the Sitka Summer Music Festival/Series and Cello Seminar, (Alaska), Juneau Jazz and Classics, (Alaska), the Northwest Bach Festival (Washington), Classical Inside Out Series- Mesa Arts Center (Arizona) and is Director of the Center for Arts Entrepreneurship and Professor of Cello at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Zuill Bailey is represented by Colbert Artists Management, Inc. 478 Washington Street, #302, Newark, NJ 07102. Tel: (212) 757-0782. www.colbertartists.com

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CHRISTOPHER ZIMMERMAN, Music Director

Named Music Director of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra in 2009, Christopher Zimmerman celebrates his fourteenth season with the FSO. Under his leadership, the FSO has received consistent praise from the media. Former Washington Post arts critic, Anne Midgette, wrote: “the Bernstein was a note-perfect end to a very refreshing evening that spoke well for the programming vision of Zimmerman.” Washington Post reporter, Stephen Brookes, commented: “Zimmerman has been injecting adrenalin into this determined ensemble… (and has) made the Fairfax players a serious force to be reckoned with.”

Christopher Zimmerman graduated from Yale with a B.A. in Music and received his Master’s from the University of Michigan. He also studied with Seiji Ozawa and Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood, and at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine with Charles Bruck. Zimmerman served as an apprentice to Andrew Davis and the Toronto Symphony and in Prague, as assistant conductor to Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

A champion of contemporary music and commissioning new work, during his leadership with the FSO, Zimmerman has commissioned three new works and presented nine premieres. In 2023, Zimmerman and the FSO will present the U.S. premiere of “Bruromano,” a concerto for guitar, double bass, and string orchestra by Czech composer Sylvie Bodorova featuring renowned guitarist, Jason Vieaux. In 2022, the FSO presented the regional premiere of composer Robert Carl’s “White Heron” and composer Jonathan Leshnoff’s Symphony No.4 “Heichalos.” The FSO brought “Dances of the Yogurt Maker” by Turkish composer, Erberk Eryilmaz to Virginia for the first time in 2019, along with the 2018 Virginia premiere of Philip Glass’ “Piano Concerto No. 3,” with pianist Simone Dinnerstein, who commissioned the work and for whom it was written. In 2017, the Fairfax Symphony in celebration of its 60th season commissioned “Resolutions” by composer Mark Camphouse in honor of the 275th Anniversary of Fairfax County. In 2016, the FSO presented the regional premiere of Martin Bresnick’s “The Way it Goes.” In 2013 premiered “Virtue” by composer Chris Theofanidis for soprano, actor, three voices and orchestra that it cocommissioned with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and in 2011, the FSO commissioned Concerto of “The Andes” for Guitar, Charango and orchestra by composer Javier Farias.