November / December 2020 Events
Schedule subject to change
Due to health concerns raised by the spread of COVID-19, for everyone's safety, no in-person audiences are allowed for indoor performances at this time.

To keep the music playing for you, we will be streaming select performances and student recitals. We regret we won’t be offering large ensemble concerts this fall.

Stream concerts and recitals here:

Southern Exposure
Glory: A Tribute to Richard Greener
with works by Valerie Coleman and Jeff Scott
Sunday, November 1
3:00 p.m. Russell House Patio Stage
Season patrons receive registration priority 
Free / limited audience / reservations required
Sign-up here. (limit 2 per person)
The audience will be required to wear face coverings. 
The performance will be live-streamed.

UofSC music faculty and special guests perform works originally commissioned for the 2018 unveiling of the Cooper Library statue dedicated to Richard T. Greener. Greener was the university’s first African American professor, the first Black graduate of Harvard, Dean of the Howard University Law School, and served as a diplomat in Vladivostok, Russia, among his many accomplishments. “Glory,” by Valerie Coleman (Performance Today’s 2020 “Classical Woman of the Year”) and “A Pioneer’s Opus,” by Jeff Scott, celebrate Greener’s life and legacy, setting his own words, original poetry and Langston Hughes’ “Let American be America Again.” Featured artists are Columbia baritone Kendrick Williams and narrator Isaiah Hogue. Greener’s biographer Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, author of Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College, will give a short talk to open the concert.

The Program
Opening Remarks by Katherine Chaddock
A Pioneer’s Opus (2018) by Jeff Scott
Glory (2018) by Valerie Coleman
The Performers
Ari Streisfeld and William Terwilliger, violins; Daniel Sweaney, viola; Claire Bryant, cello; Craig Butterfield, bass; Jennifer Parker-Harley, flute; Rebecca Schalk Nagel, oboe; Joseph Eller, clarinet; Dakota Corbliss, French horn; Michael Harley, bassoon; Kendrick Williams, baritone; Isaiah Hogue, narrator. Conducted by Jabarie Glass. 

A part of Bridging Our Distances, an initiative imagined by the faculty and student leaders of the School of Music.
November 13–15
Live-streamed from Johnson Performance Hall
The Southeastern Piano Festival goes virtual to present free online events, including the 2020 Arthur Fraser International Piano Competition final round. Live, virtual and free!
You Be the Judge
November 13 - 7:30 p.m.
Want to know what it is like to sit on a competition jury? Join Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers for a fun Zoom session, as we listen together and discuss the jury process. Audience participation and voting encouraged!
The Concert Truck
November 14 - 4:00 p.m.
Location TBA
The Concert Truck joins the Southeastern Piano Festival for a live outdoor concert featuring Nick Luby, Susan Zhang and 2020 Arthur Fraser International Piano Competition finalists.
Arthur Fraser International Piano Competition Finals
November 15 - 3:00 p.m.
Six finalists - Lucas Amory, Caleb Borick, Ben Hoang, Katie Liu, Karina Tseng and Shiv Yajnik - compete for a chance to perform with the South Carolina Philharmonic in a Masterworks concert and more than $10,000 in cash prizes
Competition Jury Announces Results
November 15 - 5:30 p.m.
Join us as 2020 Arthur Fraser International Piano Competition Jury members Douglas Humpherys, Morihiko Nakahara and Marina Lomazov announce the competition results!
Concert Truck Residency
The Concert Truck's November Residency is a part of Bridging Our Distances, an initiative imagined by the faculty and student leaders of the School of Music. More details to come. Read about The Concert Truck.
Columbia Baroque
Concerts are streamed on YouTube and linked from Facebook, and will be available on YouTube for a week following each concert.
Friday, November 6
"La Musica Bella" 
ONLINE Free 7:00 p.m.
Columbia Baroque: "La Musica Bella" hosted by Nicholas R. Jones, highlights contributions of women in the Baroque. The concert features beautiful songs by Francesca Caccini performed by Brittnee Siemon, mezzo-soprano, and Hazel Ketchum, lute. In addition, guest pianist David Cutler joins baroque violinist Erika Cutler for a re-imagined interpretation of Castello plus music for solo lute and solo recorder.
Friday, December 4
"Home for the Holidays"
ONLINE Free 7:00 p.m.
Hosted by Peter A. Hoyt, the program features French solo works for harpsichord performed by Jerry Curry and solo gamba performed by Gail Ann Schroeder, plus an Italian lute solo, a Christmas lullaby, recorder variations on a nativity tune, and a special duet performance of a sonata by French-Guadalupan composer Joseph Boulogne de Saint-Georges by baroque violinist Mary Hostetler Hoyt and cellist Cecilia Hoyt.
Parker Quartet Residency
Our Chamber Music Residency with the Grammy Award winning Parker Quartet brings a series of public concerts, master classes, community outreach and special opportunities for chamber music enthusiasts each fall and spring.

The concert will be pre-recorded and streamed followed by a live Q & A post-concert conversation. 

Due to health concerns raised by the spread of COVID-19, for everyone's safety, no in-person audiences are allowed for indoor performances at this time.

Sunday, November 29
7:30 p.m.
STREAMED Free
Parker Quartet Concert
THE PROGRAM
Hans Abrahamsen - String Quartet, No. 4
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet, Op. 132
Stream concerts and recitals here:

Schedule subject to change

Tue, Nov. 10
6:00 p.m. LIVE-STREAMING
Graduate Vocal Ensemble Conducting Recital

 Tue, Nov. 10
7:30 p.m. LIVE-STREAMING
UofSC Big Bands Concert

Tue., Nov. 17
8:30 p.m. LIVE-STREAMING
Chamber Music Night Performance
 
Wed., Nov. 18
8:30 p.m. LIVE-STREAMING
UofSC Jazz String Performance

Tue., Dec. 1
8:30 p.m. LIVE-STREAMING
UofSC Graduate String Quartet Concert

Fri., Dec. 4
8:30 p.m. LIVE-STREAMING
New Sounds Quartet in Concert

Sat., Dec. 5
8:30 p.m. LIVE-STREAMING
New Voices: Music by UofSC Student Composers
Watch live-streaming student recitals at