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Freeman Sundays @ 3 Concert
The USC School of Music’s renowned music faculty performs fresh and vibrant chamber music programs that pair canonic masterpieces alongside brand new works.
Admission Cost: $15 adults; $10 seniors, USC faculty and staff; $5 students. Free for USC School of Music students, staff and faculty.
Tickets available at Koger Center for the Arts Box Office or at the door.
Sunday, October 19, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
School of Music 206 Recital Hall.
Ari Streisfeld, violin and Phillip Bush, piano, Faculty Recital
USC Professors Ari Streisfeld (violin) and Phillip Bush (piano) take on two sonatas from the early 20th century by the great English composers Sir Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughn Williams.
Admission Cost: FREE.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
School of Music 206 Recital Hall.
Boomtown Trio featuring Craig Butterfield, double bass
Join members of Boomtown Trio for a concert celebrating the release of their second album, Adrift, in the Koger Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre.
Combining the talents of renowned upright bass player Craig Butterfield, champion fiddler Kristen Harris, and multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Cat Galan, Boomtown Trio creates a unique combination of chamber music, folk, jazz, and Americana. The entire group is tied to the USC School of Music — Butterfield is professor of bass, Harris is an adjunct professor of violin pedagogy and string techniques at USC, and Galan is a USC alumna with a degree in violin performance.
Admission Cost: FREE.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
See Description for Event Location.
USC Symphony Orchestra : Wynton Marsalis’ Trumpet Concerto
USC Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor and music director Scott Weiss, welcomes trumpeter Rex Richardson. The program Oscar Lorenzo Fernández’s Batuque, James Stephenson’s Symphony No. 2 “Voices” and Wynton Marsalis’ Trumpet Concerto performed by Richardson.
Join conductor Scott Weiss at 6:45 p.m. in the Koger Center Grand Tier for a pre-concert talk.
Tickets are available in-person at Koger Center Box Office (803-251-2222, Monday–Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) or online at KogerCenterForTheArts.com.
Admission Cost: General public - $30
Seniors/military / USC faculty and staff - $25
Children under 18 and non-USC students with ID - $8
USC Students - free with student ID.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
Koger Center for the Arts, See Description for Event Location.
Jean-Michel Goury Masterclass and Clinic
Admission Cost: FREE.
Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
School of Music 206 Recital Hall.
Jean-Michel Goury Guest Artist Saxophone Recital
Admission Cost: FREE.
Monday, November 3, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
School of Music 206 Recital Hall.
Southern Exposure presents Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives
USC music faculty Greg Stuart and David Kirkland Garner lead a cadre of students in scenes from experimental composer Robert Ashley’s quirky, mesmerizing 1980s “opera,” Perfect Lives. Featuring USC professor Ed Madden, former Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC.
Patrons may reserve seats and support the Southeast’s most adventurous music series! A gift of $150 secures a seat for the entire 2025-26 season. To donate online, click here or contact Brad Martin at brad.martin@sc.edu, 803-777-0704.
Admission Cost: FREE.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
School of Music 206 Recital Hall.
Caleb Carpenter Guest Artist Saxophone Recital
Admission Cost: FREE.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
School of Music 206 Recital Hall.
Mak Grgic Faculty Guitar Recital
Admission Cost: FREE.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
School of Music 206 Recital Hall.
Phillip Bush performs Morton Feldman’s “Triadic Memories”
On the occasion of the centennial of composer Morton Feldman’s birth, Phillip Bush performs Feldman's 1981 hour-long work for solo piano, “Triadic Memories.”
One of the major figures of American avant-garde composition, Morton Feldman (1926-1987), was born on Jan. 12, 1926. Feldman's music is more closely related to visual artists of his era (many of whom were his friends and aesthetic compadres) in that it concerns itself more with proportion and scale rather than form as is usually discussed in classical music terms. For most of his career his music stayed within a quiet dynamic range, with small evolutions and recurrances that occur over a great length of time. Late in his life he wrote several works of enormous duration, including his six-hour-long Second String Quartet and the four-hour-long “For Philip Guston.” By comparison, "Triadic Memories" is a miniature, usually lasting 60-80 minutes in time depending on the interpretation. The piece is one of several for which Feldman found inspiration in the…
Admission Cost: FREE.
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
School of Music 206 Recital Hall.