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Murfreesboro's 13 Year-Old Violinist Abby Reed Selected for an Honors Orchestra
Monday, August 13, 2018



Local violinist Abby Reed age 13 was awarded the position of concertmaster and soloist in the Honors Junior Orchestra for the 2018 Middle School Honors Performance Series in New York. The Honors Performance Orchestra boasted 110 students. The accomplished students were from 44 states, multiple provinces of Canada, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, & the Isle of Man. They preformed at Carnegie Hall in front of a 2,600 sold out audience.

Abby has been playing violin since the age of 4 and is a student of Aurora Foster of Murfreesboro Strings Studio and Vanderbilt Blair School of Music.

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