JAVACYA ARTS CONSERVATORY
JAVACYA ELITE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA • SEASON FINALE 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Dr. Patrice Floyd, Founder & Executive Director, Javacya Arts Conservatory — 800-658-1230 — info@javacyamail.com
Celebrate 250 Years: Javacya Elite Chamber Orchestra Closes Its Season with Haydn, Florence Price, and Violinist Phillip Rumlin Bond
Free concert Thursday, August 13 at St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral features a Price masterwork lost for decades
TALLAHASSEE, FLA. — The Javacya Elite Chamber Orchestra and the Javacya Elite Chamber Quintet close their season on Thursday, August 13, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. at St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral, featuring violinist Phillip Rumlin Bond, the orchestra’s former concertmaster, in a homecoming performance. Admission is free.
In the year America marks 250 years, the program joins two composers across that span. Franz Joseph Haydn was already shaping the sound of the classical era when the nation was born in 1776. Florence Beatrice Price carried that tradition forward on American soil — she was the first African-American woman to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra, when the Chicago Symphony premiered her Symphony No. 1 in E minor in 1933.
At the center of the evening is Price’s rarely performed Piano Quintet in A minor. The work was nearly lost to history. It sat unknown for decades until a trove of her manuscripts was discovered in 2009 in her abandoned summer home outside Chicago. Tallahassee audiences will hear it live — an experience few concert halls anywhere can offer. The program also includes her beloved Adoration, a short work of quiet devotion that has become one of the most cherished pieces in the violin repertoire, alongside works by Haydn.
“Violinist Phillip Rumlin Bond, former concertmaster of the Javacya Elite Chamber Orchestra, returns to make magical music,”
said Dr. Patrice Floyd, Founder and Executive Director of Javacya Arts Conservatory.
Admission is free and open to the community. Contributions are welcome to the Javacya Scholarship Fund at JavacyaArts.com/Donate.
EVENT DETAILS
Javacya Elite Chamber Orchestra and the Javacya Elite Chamber Quintet, featuring Phillip Rumlin Bond, violin. Thursday, August 13, 2026, 7:00 p.m. St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral, 4784 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312. Admission is free.
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Founded in 1980 by Dr. Patrice Floyd, Javacya Arts Conservatory has trained young classical musicians in Tallahassee for more than four decades through the Floyd Teaching Method, which joins classical music training with STREAM education. Learn more at JavacyaArts.com.