Southern Exposure New Music Series

05/04/2024

We wanted to post a few photos from our season-ending concert, featuring the spectacular Vijay Iyer and the Parker Quartet! Thanks to the musicians, visual artist Alicia Leeke, Contemporary American Painter, and to all of our wonderful patrons. Another year is in the books!

Save the dates for next season, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the The University of South Carolina School of Music.
Sept. 29 BlackBox Ensemble
Nov. 15 "Exposed Wiring" incl. Orange Road Quartet (playing Crumb: Black Angels), University of South Carolina Choirs, Greg Stuart and David Kirkland Garner, and others.
Jan. 31 earspace performs Hans Abrahamsen's "Schnee," with a special introduction by Dr. Daniel Jenkins.
March 22, John Luther Adams' "Inuksuit" - 100 percussionists, outdoors!

04/01/2024

Two days... Parker Quartet and Vijay Iyer , this Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.! This free concert is in Johnson Hall, Darla Moore School of Business lower level! This concert will not be live-streamed ... to hear it you've gotta come. We hope to see you there! Vijay Iyer Parker Quartet

03/21/2024

Alicia Leeke, South Carolina based painter, uses her background as a former biology major and graphic designer to blend science and art. Join us on April 3 in Johnson Hall to hear Vijay Iyer and the Parker Quartet, and check out a display of Alicia’s original paintings!

03/12/2024

Thanks to all of our wonderful patrons who attended Sunday's Gala at Bourbon Columbia, and hosts Eric Duncan and Kat Hunter. We are also so grateful to the artists who performed and painted, and to our friends in the USC community who contributed items for our successful silent auction. This series happens because of all of you!

01/18/2024

Decoda members Claire Bryant and Evan Premo spoke with Jamal Goss and Jordyn Markhoff on WIS TV Sunrise about their passion for chamber music and using music as a powerful tool to unite the community. Southern Exposure New Music Series' next “Friends and Family“ season performers, Decoda will perform on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at USC’s School of Music Recital Hall.

The talented Claire Byrant and Evan Premo, who are part of a bigger group of musicians better known as Decoda share a passion for Chamber music.

10/29/2023

We had a great time hosting the Wet Ink Ensemble for a memorable performance featuring music by Mariel Roberts, Kate Soper, Sam Pluta, and Eric Wubbels! Their trip also included readings for the newly established Duncan Endowment for Student Composers with new pieces by USCs own Ian Schwalbe, Shupeng Cao, Justin Schwartz, and Jordan Knapp. Thank you Wet Ink!

10/27/2023

TONIGHT!! Make sure to catch Southern Exposure New Music Series with guest octet Wet Ink Ensemble in the USC School of Music Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. Don't miss out on this incredible event, where also a brand-new program will be unveiled to help students who have a passion for composing music!

10/21/2023

Wet Ink's October 27 Southern Exposure program includes a new work by Pulitzer-nominated composer and soprano Kate Soper. Epithets: Dawns (2023) is inspired by the many references to “dawn” in Homer’s Odyssey.
Soper’s recently premiered chamber opera “The Hunt” received a rave review from the New York Times.

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09/29/2023

Join us tonight at 7:30pm as the performs an all-Latin program! One highlight will be a performance with USC mezzo-soprano of acclaimed Mexican composer Gabriella Ortiz’s “Baalkah.” This song cycle, originally written for the Kronos Quartet and Dawn Upshaw, is inspired by ancient Mayan cosmology and is sung in Mayan.
As always, this concert is free. https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/music/concerts_and_events/southern_exposure/index.php

09/28/2023

Tomorrow's concert (7:30pm) featuring the Amernet String Quartet with Rachel Calloway will be live-streamed, if you can't make it in person!

Program: https://sites.google.com/view/amernetatusc/home

09/27/2023

Our season opener on Friday, Sept. 29 coincides with National Hispanic Heritage Month and features works by three Latinx greats, including Cuban-born 2021 Pulitzer-winner Tania León. León’s quartet will be accompanied by bespoke video animation by local artist Alejandro Garcia Lemos. His work focuses on social issues, mostly on aspects of immigration, biculturalism, religion and community. For more details about Lemos, visit https://buff.ly/45811uv

09/25/2023

Please join us for an evening with the Amernet String Quartet and our very own Mezzo-Soprano Rachel Calloway, Friday, September 29 at 7:30.
About the concert:
“The Amernet String Quartet has been praised for their “intelligence” and “immensely satisfying” playing. Mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway, voice professor at USC, has established herself as one of the premiere vocal interpreters of contemporary music in the world. There is a family connection here that has helped bring Amernet, currently Ensemble-in-Residence at Florida International University in Miami, to Columbia: Calloway and Amernet’s cellist Jason Calloway are siblings.”
This special evening is free to the public.

09/07/2023

Gearing up for Southern Exposure's 22nd season, "Friends and Family"! Save the dates. And if you'd like a reserved seat for all four shows, consider supporting these programs and artists by giving now via our webpage. Or just come ... as always, they are FREE. All concerts at the The University of South Carolina School of Music and the University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business.

September 29 (Friday) - Amernet String Quartet with Rachel Calloway Streisfeld
October 27 (Friday) - Wet Ink Ensemble
January 19 (Friday) - Decoda
March 10 (Sunday) - Fundraising Gala, Bourbon Restaurant
April 3 (Wednesday) - Vijay Iyer and the Parker Quartet

https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/music/concerts_and_events/southern_exposure/

04/18/2023

Thanks to the creators and performers of "A Forest Unfolding," "Birding by Ear," and "Butte" for a lovely and moving concert about the vital significance and fragility of the natural world in front of a packed and appreciative house Friday night. It was a real honor to produce this one, featuring novelist and narrator Richard Powers, members of the Ciompi Quartet, Rachel Calloway Streisfeld, Thomas Meglioranza, baritone, flutist Laura Gilbert, clarinetist Joseph Eller, violinist Ari Streisfeld, cellist Claire Bryant, and pianists Nick Susi and Charles Fugo. Music was by David Kirkland Garner, Eric Moe, Stephen Jaffe, Melinda Wagner, and Perry Goldstein.
Save the dates for our 2023-24 season and these great artists: Amernet String Quartet and Rachel Calloway Streisfeld (Sept 29); Wet Ink Ensemble (Oct 27); Decoda (Jan 19); and the Parker Quartet with Vijay Iyer (Apr 3)!

04/14/2023

Tonight!
A Forest Unfolding: Featuring Novelist Richard Powers
Ciompi Quartet Thomas Meglioranza, baritone Rachel Calloway Streisfeld David Kirkland Garner

04/14/2023

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02/04/2023

Less than 24 hours until our first Southern Exposure concert of the year! Hope to see you all in Johnson Hall at 7:30pm this Saturday.

Southern Exposure New Music Series and faculty and students are looking forward to present "Stillpoint" with Awadagin Pratt.

11/18/2022

Here is the live stream link for our friends that can't make it tonight in person!

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11/15/2022

THIS FRIDAY! Hub New Music will perform works by Christopher Cerrone, Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Dai Wei, James Diaz, and Nina C. Young at The University of South Carolina School of Music.

Check out this amazing video of Nina C. Young's "Genre Riot" from "to hear the things we cannot see," one of the pieces featured on the program:

Performed by Hub New MusicText written and read by Rosie Stockton from their collection "Permenant Volta" (Nightboat Books)Recorded by Dave Schall Acoustic.

11/14/2022

THIS FRIDAY! Hub New Music will perform works by Christopher Cerrone, Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Dai Wei, James Diaz, and Nina C. Young at The University of South Carolina School of Music.

Check out this amazing video of Christopher Cerrone's "New Addresses," one of the pieces on the program:

From "New Addresses: An Ode to Breath"A video installation at the Peabody Essex MuseumMusicChristopher CerroneDance/ChoreographyLaura KathreinPerformersHub N...

11/10/2022

Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is one of the most rapidly-rising chamber ensembles in the country. A “nimble quartet of winds and strings” (NPR), the group has commissioned and premiered new works by a stellar lineup of today’s most exciting composers. The ensemble’s ambitious commissioning projects and “appealing programs” (New Yorker) celebrate the rich diversity of today’s classical music landscape.

Hub’s Southern Exposure program features works by the Grammy-nominated New York composer Christopher Cerrone, Chinese composer and Naumberg Fellow Dai Wei and Nina Young, who teaches composition at the University of Southern California and has been commissioned by ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and JACK quartet, to name a few.

The concert’s most ambitious work might be a London-based composer Aaron Holloway-Nahum’s Things to Do in the Belly of a Whale, a 20-minute multi-media piece inspired by a surrealist poem by Dan Albergotti and written for the quartet during the pandemic.

10/27/2022

Happy Concert Day!

We hope you will be joining us in person tonight @ 7:30 pm in the SoM Recital Hall but for those who can't make it check out the live stream link below.

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10/25/2022

With our concert less than two days away we want to highlight our artist Bonnie Monteleone and her work with the Plastic Ocean Project. This non-profit is taking on the challenge of cleaning up the ocean by giving value to plastic waste that will in turn encourage the global "mining" of plastics on and off shore. One way Bonnie imparts this value is through her art, utilizing collected plastics as her medium to create visually striking and environmentally educational artwork.

Click the link below to learn more about the Plastic Ocean Project and be sure to come early to experience Bonnie's work on display at the music library next door to the Recital Hall this Thursday Oct. 27th.

Education through research, outreach through art, and solutions through collaboration

10/25/2022

Southern Exposure New Music Series presents Columbia composer Meira Warshauer’s Ocean Calling with acclaimed pianists Phillip Bush and Elizabeth Loparits. The work is a trilogy for two pianos dedicated to the ocean and its vast, mysterious realms.

10/24/2022

The World Premiere of Meira’s complete Ocean Calling trilogy of works for two pianos will be presented live on October 27 @ 7:30 PM in the Recital Hall of the University of South Carolina School of Music, 813 Assembly St., in Columbia, SC, as part of the acclaimed Southern Exposure New Music Series.- https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/music/concerts_and_events/southern_exposure/index.php.

Performers will be U. of S.C. faculty member Phillip Bush and guest artist Elizabeth Loparits, presenting Ocean Calling I: Waves and Currents, Ocean Calling II: From the Depths and Ocean Calling III: The Giant Blue. More about the music at https://meirawarshauer.com/works/ocean-calling-i-waves-and-currents/.

10/20/2022

Only one week away from our next concert of the series featuring Meira Warshauer's complete Ocean Calling trilogy of works for two pianos! Be sure to come out October 27th at 7:30 PM in the UofSC Recital Hall to share in the World Premiere!

Don't miss the long-awaited premiere of Columbia composer Meira Warshauer’s complete Ocean Calling trilogy, performed by acclaimed pianists Phillip Bush and Elizabeth Loparits. This multi-media work memorably conveys the expanse, energy and wonder of the sea. | Southern Exposure New Music Series

09/21/2022

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the UofSC Office of Multicultural Student Affairs is hosting Sabor Latino with live music, crafts and tasty food. Thursday, Sept. 29, 5-7 p.m. @ Russell House Patio. School of Music's Ears Wide Open will be performing 6-7 p.m.

09/08/2022

Seven Pillars at UofSC is TOMORROW! Fri Sept 9 at 7:30 featuring Sandbox Percussion and an introduction by the COMPOSER himself Andy Akiho. The University of South Carolina School of Music Live streamed here: https://youtu.be/uE--z3HpTgA

09/07/2022

New-York based group Sandbox Percussion will perform USC alum Andy Akiho's "Seven Pillars," as part of the Southern Exposure New Music Series. Sandbox Percussion will captivate audiences in a one-of-a-kind percussion performance. 

09/07/2022

Only 3 days away from hearing Sandbox Percussion perform Andy Akiho’s ”Seven Pillars” at the first Southern Exposure concert of the season this Friday. Check out this article from the Daily Gamecock to learn a bit more about them!

New-York based group Sandbox Percussion will perform USC alum Andy Akiho's "Seven Pillars," as part of the Southern Exposure New Music Series. Sandbox Percussion will captivate audiences in a one-of-a-kind percussion performance.