April 25, 2024 at 7:00 pm

Etherredge Center on the USCA campus

Alexander Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor
ACO Concerto Competition Winner (TBD)
Antonin Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor – Claire Bryant, cello

As an artist-led collective, Decoda seeks to create a more compassionate and connected world through music – thoughtfully curating outstanding performances of live chamber music, facilitating creative community projects, and inspiring the next generation of musical artists to rethink and reimagine their role in society. Join us for an exciting program performed by this unique ensemble.

This event is presented by the University of New Orleans School of the Arts.

Ari Streisfeld, Claire Bryant, and Phillip Bush perform trios by Lili Boulanger, Donald Crockett, and Felix Mendelssohn.

Faculty recital of the Congaree Trio: Ari Streisfeld, violin; Claire Bryant, cello; Phillip Bush, piano featuring works by Lili Boulanger, Donald Crockett, and Felix Mendelssohn.

Guest artist: selections from David Kirkland Garner’s Eight Songs for Steffen Thomas (2021)

Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 87 (1889)

Antonin Dvořák  (1841-1904)
Ari Streisfeld, violin; Daniel Sweaney, viola; Claire Bryant, violoncello; Phillip Bush, piano

Unsung Romantics  This concert features romantic works for piano and strings featuring Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's (Felix's equally talented sister) Piano Quartet in Ab Major and the epic piano quintet by British romantic, Ralph Vaughan Williams. Sandwiched in between, we will perform some beautiful miniatures for strings by Decoda's own, Evan Premo (bass).

Decoda, the Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall, is an artist-led collective of virtuoso chamber musicians and passionate advocates for music in communities around the world. Praised by the New York Times as “refreshing in the extreme” and by luminary Eric Booth as “the ninja musical artists the 21st century requires”, the NYC-based chamber music collective presents a program called Belonging at Southern Exposure on January 19th, 2024. Seamlessly flowing in time and space, musical selections explore connection, closeness, and the sense of belonging granted through the act of making and sharing art.

Belonging draws roots from medieval monophony of Hildegard von Bingen, explores the warmth of a mother and the whimsy of a child from works by Sarah Kirkland Snider and Chick Corea, to the discovery and meditation of the natural world by Decoda’s own Evan Premo and Brad Balliett.

The program shines a spotlight on Decoda’s celebrated creative community program, Music for Transformation, which serves incarcerated people around the United States. Decoda will perform three original works by incarcerated musicians, including one from a South Carolina prison, Lee Correctional Institution, where Decoda has been in residence since 2014.

Join me and my stellar Gamecock Music colleagues, pianist, Phillip Bush and violinist, Ari Streisfeld for a program centered around the stunning Sonata for Cello and Piano by Francis Poulenc (on his 125th birthday!) and paired with some unknown gems by sisters Nadia and Lili Boulanger and Catalan composer Enrique Granados. The evening explores the rich musical language of the early to middle 20th century France.

with Joe Eller, clarinet and Lynn Kompass, piano

USC Concert Choir Selected for National Conference in Atlanta

Concert Choir’s program will feature the music of award-winning British composer Cecilia McDowall. BBC Music Magazine describes her music as “sometimes richly tonal, sometimes more exploratory in harmonic range, her music is always full of invention.” A featured work will be McDowall’s “Night Flight,” for choir and cello. USC cello professor Claire Bryant will accompany the choir.

Norcross United Methodist Church featuring the music of Cecelia McDowall

Featured ensemble at UMBC’s new music festival, Livewire

World premiere of new work by composer Perry Goldstein.

Featured Performance on the closing evening of the Santa Fe Institute Lake City convening, Lake City, South Carolina.

Performing works by Tayloe Harding and Brian Wilson with Phillip Bush, piano, May Phang, piano and Stephen Nordstrom, violin.

A private house concert for supporters of Decoda

A Forest Unfolding featuring novelist Richard Powers

Amy Beach Piano Quintet

Hear world premieres by Joseph Jones and Sarah Kirkland Snider; John Coltrane’s “Naima,” arranged by Decoda founding member and artistic director Brad Balliett; selections from Corea’s Children’s Songs, arranged by Decoda; and Stravinsky’s Suite italienne and selections from Rameau’s Les Gentils Airs, both arranged by Catherine Gregory.

The Congaree Trio, a newly established piano trio made up of UofSC School of Music professors Phillip Bush, Ari Streisfeld, and Claire Bryant, perform the Piano Trio in G Minor by Antonin Dvorak as well as recent trios by Yiorgos Vassilandonakis (composed for the group) and Reena Esmail.