South Carolina Philharmonic

FRIDAY IS FOR LOVERS (or whoever likes big amazing sweeping scores performed by a professional orchestra)! Join us Friday night for the beginning of our 60th Anniversary Season and experience Prokofiev, Ravel and visiting composer Shaosheng Li!

Get tix: https://www.scphilharmonic.com/concerts/2024-2025/juliet-her-romeo/

“[The Concerto in G major] is a concerto in the truest sense of the word: I mean that it is written very much in the same spirit as those of Mozart and Saint-Saëns.” – Maurice Ravel. Hear Katherine Liu perform it live on Friday with YOUR SC Philharmonic!

Music Director Morihiko Nakahara returns to the Koger Auditorium for LIVE Pre-Concert Chats before Capital Concerts. Join the conductor 6:30 - 7:00 PM this Friday for an entertaining exploration of the JULIET & HER ROMEO program. Virtual concertgoers can stream the chat live through their ticketing link. 🎶

A friendly reminder that our Capital Concerts are on Fridays this Fall. Now you can get your powerful evening of music AND enjoy supporting your favorite college team on Saturdays. Join us for our 60th Season opener JULIET & HER ROMEO on October 18th at 7:30 PM at the Koger Center! 🐔

Can you hear the music? 🎶 Our 60th Anniversary Season begins next Friday with Selections from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet Suites 1 & 2. The SCP will perform 10 movements selected by Morihiko Nakahara. When the orchestra gets to VII. Friar Laurence, Patrick Herring (Principal Bassoon) will become the character. “Friar Laurence’s” bassoon solo is measured and steady, much like the friar himself.

😂 Have you told your date that you expect a romantic concert excursion NEXT FRIDAY? Don't miss our 60th Anniversary Season opener at Koger Center for the Arts on October 18th. GET TIX: https://www.scphilharmonic.com/concerts/2024-2025/juliet-her-romeo/

A great interview with Morihiko Nakahara from our friends at COLAtoday!

Chatting shows, special guests, and Star Wars with Morihiko Nakahara In anticipation of the South Carolina Philharmonic's 60th anniversary season, we sat down for a Q+A with its Music Director.

We're throwing back to the first Chamber Crawl of the 24|25 Season last month at The War Mouth with Ying Liao (cello) and Andrew Lynn (violin). The place was packed, the food was amazing and the music provided a full slate of delights for our audience. Our next Chamber Crawl comes to New Brookland Tavern in January 29th (you can already get your tix). 🎶

📸 by Catherine Hunsinger

JOY ALERT! Here's a fun Halloween-themed video of October 18th's guest pianist, Katherine Liu, on From The Top in 2015. Experience her live at JULIET & HER ROMEO performing Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major.

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We're excited to welcome guest conductor Yuriy Bekker to the podium for HALLOWEEN AT HOGWARTS! A critically-acclaimed violinist and conductor, Bekker has been a mainstay of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) in Charleston, SC for 15 years. He has recently been named the CSO’s Artistic Director and also continues to lead as Concertmaster (2007) and Principal Pops Conductor (2016). He's crafted a great program of Hogwarts inspired works that will be fun for the whole family! 🎃🎃🎃🎶

HO HO HO! We're excited to announce our thrilling guests for this year's HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! This December 19th we're delighted to welcome back the Columbia Repertory Dance Company, along with the Columbia Choral Society, CammWess (from The Voice, Season 18, Team John Legend), Cat Galan (Stankface, Boomtown Trio), Johnnie Felder (Tenor, American Memories with the SCP), and Michael Hazin (ColaJazz, Trustus Theatre). The Big Buy (Santa) has promised a visit as well! Get your tickets early: https://www.scphilharmonic.com/concerts/2024-2025/home-for-the-holidays/

😂 We'll see you in TWO WEEKS for our 60th Anniversary Season opener: JULIET & HER ROMEO. This concert features pianist Katherine Liu who was the winner of the 2022 Arthur Fraser International Competition. 🎶 Don't miss this young phenom live and in action! 🎹

The forecast looks lovely, so Historic Columbia will be selling tickets to tonight's Concert in the Gardens at the gate! 🌤️ 🎟️ 😎

We appreciate the generous support of our 2024-2025 sponsors, 👏🏽 HPG and Company and Richland County 👏🏽, and of course, the wonderful musicians from South Carolina Philharmonic!

A new Mozart work discovered! Composed for string trio, the seven-movement piece is believed to have been written in the mid to late 1760s, when Mozart was a teenager.

‘Mozart dropped a new single’ – classical fans queue to hear newly discovered work in Leipzig Long lines of music lovers formed to hear a piece of history, as a previously unknown Mozart trio received its first public performance.

THE MORE YOU KNOW 🌈 Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet had a difficult path to production! The ballet was originally intended for the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, but the collaboration fell through before Prokofiev started writing. Prokofiev then offered the ballet to the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, but the dancers rejected it as too difficult to dance. The ballet was finally performed in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1938, and in the Soviet Union in 1940. Join us October 18th to hear selections from suite 1 & 2 performed by YOUR SC Phil!

The centerpiece of our JULIET & HER ROMEO program is Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major - performed by pianist Katherine Liu. With its refinement, understatement and irrepressible joy, the concerto is a fitting testament to Ravel’s unique genius. Sadly, this would be one of Ravel’s final completed works. He would fall silent after 1932, afflicted with a neurological disease that made it difficult for him to write, speak and coordinate his movements.

CONCERT UPDATE! Our world premiere commission from Chinese composer Shaosheng Li will be postponed for a later season so that we can bring Li's star-soprano to the US for the performance. No worries, though! We are still excited that we will be performing another work by Li: Centuries. This piece employs the tonalities characteristic of northern Chinese music, particularly drawing inspiration from the melodic contours of Shaanxi folk singing. 🎶

MATURIUS! 💥 Run quickly and be sure to reserve your tickets EARLY for this season's HALLOWEEN AT HOGWARTS on October 27th at 3:00 PM. Get Tix: https://www.scphilharmonic.com/concerts/2024-2025/halloween-at-hogwarts/

Billy Shakes has a good point. 😂 We can't wait to return to Koger Center for the Arts on October 18th for the opener of our 60th Anniversary Season: JULIET & HER ROMEO! ♥♥♥Prokofiev's unshakeable ballet score brings The Bard's classic story to life through music. 🎶 Get Tix: https://www.scphilharmonic.com/concerts/2024-2025/juliet-her-romeo/

Today we're throwing a short way back to our 2024 Annual Board Dinner. We were delighted to honor Eric Gilfus (horn), Ying Liao (cello) and Jonathan Burns (double bass) with the Dr. Benjamin Woodruff, Jr. Award for musician service. Mike Ferguson was awarded the Major General Robert B. Solomon Award for extraordinary volunteer leadership. Finally, Regan Voit was given Board Emeritus Status after 19 years of service to the SC Phil. It takes a village, and ours is pretty special! ♥🎶

📸 by Catherine Hunsinger

What a great start to the 24|25 Chamber Crawl Series! SCP musicians Andrew Lynn (violin) and Ying Liao (cello) gave a great performance and the War Mouth provided their tried and true delicious food and drink with excellent service. ❤️

Thanks to League of American Orchestras’ Symphony Magazine for sharing the power of music.

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