Los Angeles musicians Adrienne and Christopher Woods are joining parents Sherry and Benjamin Woods to perform in celebration of the final day of classes for the Spring 2006 semester!

	Christopher Woods has played the violin since age four. He began studying with Thelma Hawkins and continued with Sherry Woods and Won-Mo Kim. Born to a musical family, he first appeared in public on the First Tuesday Series at Francis Marion University at the age of eight, performing the Bach Double Concerto for Two Violins with his mother, Sherry Woods.  By the age of ten, he gave a solo recital at the Arts Alive Festival at FMU. At age twelve, he performed the Mozart Concerto In G Major with the Florence Symphony, as well as foreshadowing another career by landing the role as “The Artful Dodger” in the stage musical, Oliver.
	He has won numerous state and national awards and scholarships, enabling him to study at such prestigious music camps as Brevard, Interlochen, Meadowmount, Killington, the Daniel Heifetz Festival and the Henry Mancini Institute and Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra held at UCLA in Los Angeles where he was one of the concertmasters and jazz soloists.
	He has studied at the North Carolina school of the Arts with Kevin Lawrence,  in master classes with violinist-violist-conductor Pinkas Zuckerman, as a scholarship student of Sergiu Swartz at the Harrid Conservatory in Florida, with Frits deJonge at the University of South Carolina, and with Patinka Kopec at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in violin performance.
	He has performed concertos by Tchaikowsky, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Sarasate, and Sherry Woods with the Florence Symphony, the Spartanburg Philharmonic, the USC Orchestra, and the South Carolina Philharmonic.
	Based in Los Angeles California, he maintains a career in the music performance and entertainment industries, appearing in productions of Jessica Simpson, Jay Leno, and Stephen Spielberg.
	Benjamin Woods has given numerous solo piano concerts across the country, including Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, and Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City where he made his debut in 1985. He has performed as guest soloist with the Florence Symphony Orchestra, Florence SC, in concertos of Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Dohnanyi and Gershwin, he has performed the Beethoven Choral Fantasy with the Florence Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra, and he has performed Beethoven concertos nos. 3, 4, and 5 with conductor John Paul and members of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, Jackson Mississippi. A professor of music at Francis Marion College in Florence, he was Conductor/Music Director of the Florence Symphony from 1996 to 2002. He was recently selected as a FMU Board of Trustees Research Scholar.  He continues his teaching and performing careers. 
	Adrienne Woods has won numerous awards for her playing, including public school and ensemble competitions, college and university performances, and professional solo and symphonic engagements.
	Beginning her cello Study with Sherry Woods at age four, she continued her instruction with Julia Krebs in Florence, SC.  She studied with Robert Jesselson, artist-professor at the University of South Carolina, where she was awarded a full scholarship. 
	As a promising student, she received awards distinguishing her as the “Outstanding Student in Music” in her graduating class at both Moore Middle School and West Florence High School. She was a member of the Junior and Senior All-State Orchestras for six year, serving as principal cellist for two years. She was selected to participate in the SC Governor’s School of the Arts Summer Orchestra Program where she was principal cellist and selected to be recital soloist.  Also selected as principal cellist, she received a scholarship to attend the Brevard Music Camp in North Carolina.
	As a member of the Woods Family Quartet, she has performed concerts with them across the Southeast, and is featured in concert and as soloist on their latest CD.
	While at the University of South Carolina, she collaborated on many chamber recitals, including performances with Christopher Woods and Jack Kohl.  She also collaborated in ensembles on numerous faculty recitals at USC, and has performed with the USC Symphony Orchestra. Graduating from USC, she received a bachelors degree in Music Performance.
	As a professional orchestral musician and soloist, she has been a regular performer with the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, the Florence Symphony Orchestra, and the Augusta Symphony.  She has performed with the Masterworks Choir Orchestra of Florence, SC, and the Long Bay Symphony Orchestra of Myrtle Beach, SC. Having made her cello orchestral-soloist début with the Florence Symphony, she was invited to return to perform the Dvořák Concerto for Cello and Orchestra with them.
	 Relocating to Los Angeles, California, she became a member of the Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra of the Henry Mancini Institute at UCLA, and was a member of the Début Orchestra of Beverly Hills.  Besides this she is doing some teaching, recording studio work and music video backgrounds, and other interests and pursuits.
	Sherry Martin Woods,  principal violist with the Florence Symphony, member of the South Carolina Philharmonic, the Firenze Quartet, and the Woods Piano Quartet, is well known as a performer, composer and educator. She and Benjamin Woods have been chosen several times as performing artists for the South Carolina Arts Commission's Community Tour Program. Sherry Woods earned the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in viola performance at USC in 1991 and the DMA in Composition in December of 1997. She has taught at both Francis Marion University and the University of South Carolina. 
	Sherry Woods' works have been performed by artists such as Christopher Woods violinist, Elizabeth Johnson, flutist, Sue Orr, Marcy Betzer, and Sharyn Mapes, sopranos, the Vienna Saxophone Quartet, and William Mills, Nicholas Smith and Benjamin Woods, conductors. Larger groups performing her works have included the Florence Symphony, the South Carolina Philharmonic, and the Masterworks Choir and Orchestra. In recitals and in concerts from New York City to Taiwan her works have included the song cycle Leaves of the Fall, Persephone Dances for cello and orchestra, The Sunflower Concerto for violin and orchestra, Dance of the Dolphin and the Whale for youth orchestra, Sapphic Songs for women's chorus, Lament for Lost Infants for saxophone quartet, a dance suite, Kaleidoscope, choreographed and performed by the South Carolina Dance Company, The Florentine Overture, commissioned by the Florence Symphony for the opening of its 50th season, The Wisdom Fanfare, commissioned by the South Carolina Philharmonic and a choral work, The Holy Band - Mystical Songs on the Poetry of Hafiz, commissioned by the Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra. 
	Sherry Woods song cycle, Of Rivers and Trees, for tenor, piano, violin, viola, cello and flute, was premiered at the College of Charleston in November of 2001; it was described as "beautiful and riveting" by the Charleston Post. Collaborating with visual Artist Dagmar Nickerson for a joint presentation of art and music for the March 2003 First Tuesday Music Series at FMU, Dr. Woods presented From the Center, a recital of recent and new works. 
	She has served as composer in residence twice for Southside Middle school in Florence, and she composed compositions for both their Ron McNair and Dizzie Gillespie concerts. She served as conductor-clinician for the Florence All-City Orchestra, for which she was also commissioned to write a composition honoring retiring band director Leon Harvey. Sherry Woods continues to compose, teach violin and viola, and perform solo literature, with orchestras, and with chamber music groups.

Program

Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, opus 60. . . . . . . . . . .Johannes Brahms
	Allegro non troppo                                              
                                                                 
Etude - Tableau in E♭ Minor, opus 39, No. 5. . . . . . .Sergei Rachmaninoff

Concerto for cello, opus 85. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Elgar
	Adagio- moderato

Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sherry Woods
	
Serenade in C major, opus 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ernst von Dohnányi
	Marcia
	Rondo

Tzigane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Maurice Ravel