Guest cellist with the GRAMMY-winning Parker Quartet celebrating 150 years of Schoenberg with Verklarte Nacht. Hootie Johnson Hall at Darla Moore School of Business at USC.

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Decoda—comprising alums of the adventurous Ensemble Connect and featuring “some of the brightest young classical musicians in the world” (Time Out New York)—is Carnegie Hall’s first-ever affiliate ensemble. With every concert, the spectacularly versatile ensemble showcases its commitment to virtuosic performance, audience and community engagement, and seemingly boundless repertoire. For its 2024–2025 Carnegie Hall concert, Decoda performs works by Robert and Clara Schumann, Gustav and Alma Mahler, Schoenberg, and a one-of-a-kind collaborative suite by four of today’s leading composers, featuring live narration and singers.

Performers

Decoda
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano
Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone
Richard Powers, Narrator

Program

R. SCHUMANN "Eintritt" from Waldszenen

C. SCHUMANN "Geheimes Flüstern," Op. 23

G. MAHLER "Ging heut' Morgen übers Feld" from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

A. MAHLER "Licht in der Nacht"

SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

DAVID KIRKLAND GARNER / STEPHEN JAFFE / ERIC MOE / MELINDA WAGNER A Forest Unfolding

Max Richter, a leading figure in contemporary classical music, is known for blending classical composition with modern electronic elements. His innovative work spans solo albums, ballets, film scores and unforgettable concert hall performances. From Shutter Island to The Leftovers, his evocative music has captivated audiences worldwide. 

Join us at Dubai Opera for a captivating evening as Richter performs his latest studio album, In a Landscape, along with selected pieces from The Blue Notebooks, celebrating its 20th anniversary. This performance offers a unique opportunity to experience Richter’s deep exploration of human emotion, optimism, and the fusion blend of acoustic and electronic soundscapes. 

Max Richter’s fusion of classical technique and electronic technology -heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for film, dance, art and fashion - has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians.

The newly announced tour, marking the coming of age for the globally celebrated musician, will see Richter play across the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, Canada, Australia and Asia throughout 2024 and 2025, including shows at London’s legendary Royal Festival Hall, the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Sydney Opera House.

Coinciding with the world tour Richter will release his 9th studio album ‘In A Landscape’ in September 2024. The new album marks a significant evolution in Richter’s musical journey, as he delves deeper into the themes of optimism and human emotion accompanied by an innovative exploration of electronic sounds and field recordings. It is a record about reconciling polarities, bringing together the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world, the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living - a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in constant motion.

American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)
Clarice Jensen, cello & artistic director
Ben Russell & Laura Lutzke, violins
Kyle Miller, viola
Claire Bryant, cello

Max Richter’s fusion of classical technique and electronic technology -heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for film, dance, art and fashion - has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians.

The newly announced tour, marking the coming of age for the globally celebrated musician, will see Richter play across the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, Canada, Australia and Asia throughout 2024 and 2025, including shows at London’s legendary Royal Festival Hall, the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Sydney Opera House.

Coinciding with the world tour Richter will release his 9th studio album ‘In A Landscape’ in September 2024. The new album marks a significant evolution in Richter’s musical journey, as he delves deeper into the themes of optimism and human emotion accompanied by an innovative exploration of electronic sounds and field recordings. It is a record about reconciling polarities, bringing together the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world, the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living - a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in constant motion.

American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)
Clarice Jensen, cello & artistic director
Ben Russell & Laura Lutzke, violins
Kyle Miller, viola
Claire Bryant, cello

Ahead of his highly anticipated ninth album, neo-classical master and post-minimalist legend Max Richter returns to the Sydney Opera House for an all-new performance with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.

One of the most influential and acclaimed composers of all time, Max Richter is bringing his highly anticipated first ever world tour to Australia, performing a selection of his best-loved works from The Blue Notebooks and the newly released In A Landscape alongside the visionary American Contemporary Music Ensemble.  

Max Richter’s fusion of classical technique and electronic technology – heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for the likes of Dior and Kim Jones, Denis Villeneuve, Martin Scorsese and Woolf Works by Wayne McGregor, to name a few – has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians.   

His latest release and ninth studio album In A Landscape is a meditation on the present that brings together the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world. In A Landscape employs homogenous musical language to Richter’s seminal album The Blue Notebooks, with the two albums bookending this significant chapter of Richter’s life and career. 

With a catalogue amassing over three billion streams to date making him the most-streamed classical artist in the world, don’t miss this transcendent evening with Max Richter and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.  

USC faculty Joe Eller, Claire Bryant, and Lynn Kompass perform works by Jon Jeffrey Grier and Johannas Brahms for clarinet, cello, and piano at Greenville’s hidden gem, the Sigal Music Museum.

Congaree Trio plays trios by Lili Boulanger, Gabriel Fauré, and Felix Mendelssohn in a private house concert in Philadelphia, PA.

USC faculty Jennifer Parker-Harley, Claire Bryant, and Phillip Bush in a program of music for flute, cello, and piano for Columbia’s chamber music enthusiasts, ChamberPots. Works by Gaubert, Haydn, and more.

Modern Music: Echoes of a Revolution

Galleries and bar open at 5:00 p.m. | Concert 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

Celebrate French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850 – 1950 with a live vocal and chamber music performance inspired by the exhibition. Modern Movements showcases a range of French composers spanning the same period — Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Nadia Boulanger, Francis Poulenc, and others — many of whom were closely associated with artists in the exhibition and part of the same currents circulating in French art and culture at the time.

This special presentation features tenor Dominic Armstrong, cellist Claire Bryant, pianist Phillip Bush, mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway, pianist Lynn Kompass, and flutist Jennifer Parker-Harley.

The first USC Faculty chamber music concert features performances by voice and strings faculty. Voice faculty Dominic Armstrong and Ashley Emerson, accompanied by the USC faculty string quartet, will perform the world premiere of Rachel Whelan’s maybe there will be Music, which sets poetry by Paul L. Thomas. The program also features Duo Cortona (mezzo Rachel Calloway and violinist Ari Streisfeld); tenor Johnnie Felder, baritone Jacob Will, violinist Bill Terwilliger, and pianist Lynn Kompass in Ralph Vaughn-Williams’ The Last Invocation; and soprano Serena LaRoche joined by a student / alumni choir of eight cellists led by Claire Bryant, in Heitor Villa Lobos’s gorgeous Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5, "Aria (Cantilena)."

We are excited to host the annual SC Cello Choir on Saturday, September 28, 2024, at the University of South Carolina School of Music and the Koger Center for the Arts!

Celebrated Icelandic cellist and pedagogue, Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, will be joining us from Cincinatti Conservatory of Music as our guest artist and clinician for the weekend. Sæunn is an exceptional musician, teacher, and person; I feel very lucky to share her with all of you later next month. I urge you to check out her website, but would like to share something she wrote on her homepage which speaks so greatly to the human and artist she is:

I am a cellist driven by exploration. My passion is for asking questions, searching into the unknown in musical dialogue with audiences and innovative artists. As this examination has the capacity to create meaningful and powerful experiences that can touch the soul and can only exist in the moment, my mission is to create spontaneous compositions, intuitive performances, and experimental collaborations that can cut beyond words and deeply connect us.

We will also be joined by USC alumna, cellist, and composer Buffi Jacobs, a native South Carolinian and former cellist in the touring company of Hamilton: An American Musical!, Buffi has forged a career as a performer/composer and her current work explores the live looping immersive world of cello and visuals. We will also perform two or three of Buffi's arrangements during cello choir!

Saturday 8/28 - Koger Center for the Arts

8:30 Registration / Check-in Koger Lobby

9 - 12 Rehearsals

12 Lunch

2 - 5 Rehearsals

6PM Celebratory Community Concert – Free and open to the public

Congaree Trio — Phillip Bush, piano; Ari Streisfeld, violin; Claire Bryant, cello

Works by Donald Crockett and Felix Mensdelssohn

Alarm Will Sound, one of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene” (The New York Times), is thrilled to announce its return to the Time:Spans festival. Known for their adventurous programming and virtuosic performances, Alarm Will Sound promises an evening of groundbreaking music that pushes the boundaries of the classical genre.

This year’s performance showcases an eclectic mix of works from some of the most dynamic and thought-provoking composers of our time including Andrew Norman, Claude Baker, Chelsea Komschlies, Felipe Tovar-Henao, Kelley Sheehan, and Marcos Balter.

Decoda is thrilled to announce the 10th Anniversary Season of Decoda’s celebrated Chamber Music Festival at our new home, tucked away in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains, right outside of Asheville, North Carolina, June 23 - 30, 2024. 

Decoda’s new summer partner, Warren Wilson College, aligns harmoniously with our own mission to create, connect, and spread compassion through music. Believing that “the world needs curiosity,” Warren Wilson is a campus community that fosters relationships with community partners through meaningful engagement, sustainable agriculture practices, and by educating the next generation of “curiously insightful, experienced, and capable individuals.” 

Decoda cannot wait to celebrate ten years of our unique summer festival, which is dedicated to training the next generation of young artists to rethink and reimagine their role in society. Through outstanding chamber music making, creative collaboration, and hands-on project design and development, DCMF cultivates the vision of community through music with the young artists of tomorrow.

Featuring “some of the brightest young classical musicians in the world” (Time Out New York), Decoda is Carnegie Hall’s first-ever affiliate ensemble, comprising alums of the adventurous Ensemble Connect. Copland’s Appalachian Spring—celebrating its 80th anniversary this season—serves as an inspiration and departure point for this unique program. Experience a premiere composed by and featuring Ringdown, the new electronic cinematic pop duo of Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee; an American folk–inspired septet by Copland’s friend Hanns Eisler written shortly before his expulsion from the US; a new arrangement of Billy Bragg’s setting of Woody Guthrie’s “Eisler on the Go”; and the dynamic Vera by Hannah Kendall.

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