USC Announces the Maestro’s Farewell Season
The USC Symphony
Orchestra’s upcoming season celebrates Maestro Donald Portnoy’s 31 years
leading Carolina’s premier orchestra. His music leadership has drawn out the
very best in thousands of young musicians. The Ira McKissick Koger Professor of
Fine Arts retires as director of the USC Symphony Orchestra and Orchestral
Studies after
the 2016-2017 academic year.
Portnoy has received countless
accolades throughout his years conducting the university’s orchestra – one of the top university orchestras
in the region. He
will continue to teach conducting and violin and direct the Conductors
Institute of South Carolina at USC.
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| Photo Credit: Keith Trammel |
Join us for our monumental season opener with Marina Lomazov
The Russian Romantics
Thur., Sept. 13, 2016
Marina Lomazov, piano
The first
concert of the new season includes Maestro Donald Portnoy conducting Tchaikovsky's powerful Symphony No. 4 in F minor. Our guest artist Marina Lomazov will be performing Rachmaninoff’s
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor. Praised by critics as “a diva of the piano”
(The Salt Lake City Tribune), “a mesmerizing risk-taker” (The Plain Dealer,
Cleveland), and “simply spectacular” (Chicago International Music Foundation),
Ukrainian-American pianist Marina Lomazov has established herself as one of the
most passionate and charismatic performers on the concert scene today.
Following prizes in the Cleveland International Piano Competition, William
Kapell International Piano Competition, Gina Bachauer International Piano
Competition, and Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Lomazov has given
performances worldwide. She is the Ira McKissick Koger Professor of Fine Arts
at USC and a Steinway Artist.
All concerts take place at the Koger Center for the Arts (1051 Greene St., Columbia, SC) at 7:30 p.m.
A pre-concert Prelude Talk with Maestro Portnoy takes place at 6:45 p.m. prior to each performance.
Season subscriptions: Save with a season subscription (7 concerts) and enjoy the best seats in the house: $150
Discounts: $110 seniors, USC faculty and staff; $45 students.
Single concert tickets: $30 general public; Discounts: $25 seniors, USC faculty and staff; $8 students.
Call 803-251-2222 or Koger Box Office, corner of Greene and Park Streets (M-F 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) or online at kogercenterforthearts.com.
