Forte Music Studios
"Lessons for All ~ Learn to Play"
THANK YOU for visiting Forte Music Studios online! We strive to provide a positive environment where "Lessons for All ~ Learn to Play" is more than a casual phrase. Music at Forte is taught by expert, professional instructors to students of all ages who learn through both study and performance. (Click on the Instructors link above.)
FORTE is located in "The House on the Corner at the Crossroads of Music" where Route 3 and Highway 1 meet in Fredericksburg. We are open regularly from 3:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Our phone number is 540-899-6787 (540-899-OPUS). We cordially invite you to stop by and see what we do!
OUR GOAL is to share our knowledge and love of music with each student in an individual setting. At Forte Music Studios our experienced and enthusiastic instructors teach bass, cello, clarinet, drum, flute, French horn, guitar, mandolin, music theory, oboe, piano, recorder, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola, violin and voice lessons. Whether you have a musical background -- or have never before taken a music lesson -- there is a place for you at Forte.
NEWS/INFORMATION/UPDATES
THE FORTE MUSIC STUDIOS ANNUAL SHOWCASE AND SCHOLARSHIP RECITAL was held May 5 at Chancellor Baptist Church in Fredericksburg. The program featured excellent musical performances by several students and by the Forte Youth Orchestra, as well as presentation of the "Christine D. Hartigan Forte Music Studios Scholarship" to Jesse Brown. A full report, featuring photographs taken before, during and after the event -- as well as the names of participants -- will be available on on this website in mid-May. You will want to check back and, as newspaper vendors used to say, "read all about it!"
LISTEN TO A BROADCAST of music featuring the Forte Youth Orchestra and an interview with Forte founder Christine Hartigan that was aired on Classics Radio 89.5 (WWED-FM) by clicking here or going to the Classics Radio website at www.classicsradio.org.
WELCOME ALISTAIR LEWIS! The son of Jennifer and Trey Lewis, Alistair was born February 9 and weighed exactly seven pounds. New mom Jennifer is taking a temporary break from Forte, where she teaches guitar, piano and trombone. (Three of her students participated in the recent Forte recital.) In a definite understatement regarding her role as a first-time mother, Jennifer reports: "We are learning something new each day."
EIGHT FORTE STUDENTS PRESENTED EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES on Saturday afternoon, January 21 during the first Forte Music Studios recital of 2012. Performers included:
The program included a variety of musical styles and selections. All participating students were enthusiastically applauded by the audience. For a recital picture, see the Photos page on this website.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FORTE YOUTH ORCHESTRA AND CONDUCTOR ELIZABETH PILLER for their excellent performances on March 3 and December 17 when they opened for Rappahannock Pops Orchestra Concerts at the Grace Church Center for Performing Arts in Fredericksburg. The Orchestra also performed on February 19, for the St. George's Chamber Orchestra Concert at St. George's Episcopal Church in downtown Fredericksburg. The Rappahannock Pops website features an informative page about the Forte Youth Orchestra. (To see this page, as well as more information about the Rappahannock Pops, click here.)
CONGRATULATIONS TO LOGAN PETRY AND JOSH RANSOM! A sophomore at Chancellor High School, Logan was selected as First Chair on Tenor Saxophone in the Spotsylvania All-County High School Band. Josh is a freshman at Chancellor High School, and he was named as First Chair on Alto Saxophone in the Spotsylvania All-County High School Band and Third Chair in the All-District Band, which also makes him First Alternate in the Virginia All-State Band. Josh and Logan are students of Young Devereaux at Forte. (Click above on Photos to see their pictures.)
FORTE BASS INSTRUCTOR BRITTANY FROMPOVICH will give a bass clinic at BassBreak Live on Friday-Saturday, May 11-12, at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Timonium, Maryland. For more information or to register for BassBreak Live, click on the Calendar page on this website and refer to the May 11-12 entry.
CAPTION CONTEST WINNERS: Congratulations to Libby Cannizzaro of Falls Church, Virginia, and Drey Samuelson of Pender, Nebraska, dual winners of our website caption contest. In announcing his decision, our contest judge said: "This collaborative caption brings together Drey's robust and down-to-earth humor with Libby's creative allusions to 19th century literature and 21st century technology."
We have arranged to divide the $25 caption prize between Drey and Libby. Their $12.50 checks are already in the mail -- not too late to help Drey, we hope. When he submitted his entry and told us where to send his winnings, he added: "Hurry. I'm hungry."
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" The House on the Corner ...
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Where Route 3 Meets Highway 1 in Fredericksburg
540-899-OPUS (540-899-6787)
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Students of Jennifer Lewis
Kyle Kauffman - Trumpet
Grace Hall - Piano
Jillian Smith - Piano
Student of Lisa Leung
Maeve Montgomery - Violin
Students of Young Devereaux
Alex Conway - Guitar
Dylan Conway - Piano
Alexis Carmine - Guitar
Allison Embrey - Piano
Elizabeth Piller conducted the Forte Student Orchestra during a December performance at Grace Church in Fredericksburg, after which members of the Orchestra presented holiday roses to Miss Piller to express their genuine appreciation for her leadership. (Photos by John-Rine Zabanal)
"Jim, it's Huck. Get over here quick! When I woke up, I was out here on the river with this embarrassing hat on my head. All I've got to use for a paddle is an old guitar, and water keeps coming through the hole in the middle. By the way, what's this new-fangled thing I'm holding to my ear and using to talk to you?"
Trey, Alistair and Jennifer Lewis. One observer, perhaps with a slight bias to her opinion, commented: "He's pretty much the cutest baby on the planet."
