ACTU’s Fridays at Noon offers lunch-time concerts that feature regional and national performing artists.

Lopez Tabor Duo
September 23, 2022
Thomasville First United Methodist Church
The members of the Lopez Tabor Duo, Alfonso Lopez, violinist, and Michelle Tabor, pianist, have performed together in the U.S. and Venezuela since 2004. Alfonso Lopez, who lives in Caracas, is the concertmaster of the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, and a teacher, composer, and conductor. Michelle Tabor grew up in Caracas, the daughter of a Venezuelan mother and an American father, and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

Dr. Haiqiong Den
October 21, 2022
First Missionary Baptist Church
Dr. Haiqiong Deng is a performer on the traditional Chinese instrument the zheng (or gu-zheng), and a 2017 Florida Folk Heritage Award recipient. This partnership with musician and composer David Cobb focuses on nature, imagination, mood, and the influence of world music on soundscapes and composition in our shared human experience.

Jeffrey Keesecker and Margaret Cracchiolo
November 18, 2022
Thomas County Public Library
Jeffrey Keesecker and Margaret Cracchiolo form a husband-and-wife bassoon and oboe duo, and this program will explore the double reed instruments of the orchestra. Both are members of the Tallahassee Symphony and Pensacola Symphony Orchestras and have performed throughout the world. Mr. Keesecker is Professor of Bassoon at the College of Music at Florida State University, and Dr. Cracchiolo earned her doctorate at FSU.

David Evans
February 17, 2023
Thomas County Public Library
David Evans is a noted blues scholar and musician known as “Doctor of the Blues” who has been instrumental in documenting some of the remaining vestiges of traditional blues in Memphis and the surrounding region. Author of Big Road Blues, Evans heads the doctoral program in Ethnomusicology at the University of Memphis and has recorded extensively.

David Detweiler
March 24, 2023
First Missionary Baptist Church
David Detweiler is a post-bop soloist, tenor saxophonist, composer, and educator who is influenced by early John Coltrane and Michael Brecker with a sound and style of his own within the mainstream of modern jazz. Dr. Detweiler is Assistant Professor of Jazz Saxophone at the College of Music at Florida State University, has performed at many of New York City’s premiere live-music venues, and earned his DMA degree from the Eastman School of Music.

Jeffrey Springer
April 21, 2023
Thomasville First United Methodist Church
Jeffrey Springer has performed across Europe, Asia and North America with notable leading orchestras, including the San Francisco and Pittsburgh Symphonies, and is an active operatic performer. Dr. Springer is the winner of the Concours International de Chant de Festival Atlantique in Nantes, France, the José Carreras Prize in Pamplona, Spain, and is a recipient of career grants and awards from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and the Wagner Societies of New York and Washington D.C. He earned his doctorate from the Catholic University of America.