Sonatas and Soundscapes

Greenville performing arts organization returns to the stage with three productions spanning opera, musical theatre, and a range of other genres

As the Spoleto Festival USA prepares to return with in-person performances for 2021, South Carolina Public Radio is announcing coverage plans for this year's festival.

Launched in Charleston in 2013, the Colour of Music Festival continues to highlight Black classical artistry and musicianship even as it has expanded well…

“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…

Beginning Friday, May 22, South Carolina Public Radio is proud to present special Spoleto Festival USA programming as part of a new “Spoleto at Home”…

Paul Wiancko started playing cello at age five. By age eight, he had composed his first piece of music.“If you can call it a piece,” Wiancko says. “I…

It’s a common plot for an opera: an endangered female character awaits rescue from the male lead. But Ludwig van Beethoven wasn’t generally one to settle…

Entering its sixteenth year, the Southeastern Piano Festival will once again bring rising talents and seasoned performers alike to the University of South…

At home performing the sonatas of both Joseph Haydn and John Cage, Pedja Muzijevic is a versatile musician. Pedja’s skills as a pianist and harpsichordist…

Working with jazz legends like John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, and numerous others has given double bassist Reggie Workman more than a little…