Beethoven

The orchestra's opening weekend is not only going on as planned in the wake of Helene, but expanding to include an outdoor broadcast. As Greenville Symphony Executive Director Jessica Satava and Music Director Lee Mills share, Beethoven's landmark Symphony No. 9 is a work of music that promises to resonate powerfully with a hard-hit community.

Marking 10 years of its artistic residency at the USC School of Music, the chamber group is partnering with Historic Columbia to perform all 16 of Ludwig van Beethoven’s string quartets—and the composer’s visionary Grosse Fuge—across six venues in the capital city.

Illia Ovcharenko had already chosen the music he would perform for the 2022 Hilton Head International Piano Competition when his home country was invaded in February. By the time of the competition in mid-March, some of the works he selected were resonating on a deeper level.

Acclaimed Irish pianist and Beethoven interpreter offers insights into the composer’s music ahead of his February 3rd performance in Aiken.

“The first thing to get past is the scowl,” writes Mark Evan Bonds in Beethoven: Variations on a Life. Bonds, who is a professor of musicology at the…

Not long after his arrival in Vienna in late 1792, a young Ludwig van Beethoven was beginning to make an impression in the musical city. The Austrian…