New Spire Arts
The NSS is delighted to again partner with New Spire Arts to present our informances in Frederick, MD.
In order to better enable us to share string orchestra music with you, the NSS is currently undergoing some internal restructuring. As a result, we have decided to postpone our spring concerts until later this year. New dates have not yet been determined, so stay tuned. We will keep you informed and publish our fall schedule as soon as it has been finalized.
Rest assured, we are still here and look forward to sharing our talents and music with you in the very near future!
Saxophonist Howard Burns joins the NSS again in another "Jazz with Strings Attached" informance. This time we are reproducing Lee Konitz's album "Strings for Holiday."
Go somewhereBarbara Fitzgerald is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. As winner of the school's concerto competition, she performed the Pichl Concerto for Double Bass with the Juilliard Philharmonia. She has lived in New York; Montreal, Canada; Perth, West Australia; and Virginia, where she has been in orchestras, given solo recitals, and been soloist with orchestra in concerto performances, most recently playing the Koussevitzky Concerto with the Reston Community Orchestra in November 2018, and again with the Summer Strings Orchestra in Glen Burnie, Maryland in August 2019. Barbara toured Eastern Europe with the McGill Chamber Orchestra from Montreal, Canada; was principal bass of the West Australia Symphony Orchestra in Perth, West Australia; has played in summer festivals in Europe and Mexico; has been a free-lance bassist in New York City; and is presently a freelance bassist in the Washington, D.C area. She is a founding member of the Main Street Chamber Players, and of Main Street Music Studios in Fairfax, VA, where she maintains a double bass studio. Barbara is the director of Basstravaganza, a summer camp for bassists in Northern Virginia, and serves on the faculty of Bass Works, a summer camp in Baltimore, Maryland.
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