The Concerts

The 2011/2012 Masterworks Season

I couldn’t be more excited about all the wonderful music the S.C. Philharmonic has in store for you this season.

However you look at it, the season is big. The “Rach 3,” Tchaikovsky “Pathétique” Symphony, Scheherazade, and the Beethoven Ninth could even be called giant. We have a “Mostly Mozart” program and our annual “Beethoven & Blue Jeans” concert. Guest artists with worldwide acclaim and our own musicians will produce big sound. Welcome to the South Carolina Philharmonic 2011/2012 Masterworks Series.

“it’s big!”

- Morihiko 

Masterworks  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7 
Special Event Concert: Piano Extravaganza

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Autumn Romance

Masterworks 1
Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011 | 7:30 p.m.
Koger Center for the Arts
Jennifer Frautschi (website), violin

  • Mason Bates (website): Rusty Air in Carolina
  • Korngold: Violin Concerto
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, "Pathetique"
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Beethoven & Blue Jeans: Oktoberfest!

Masterworks 2
Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011 | 7:30 p.m.
Koger Center for the Arts
Dusan Vukajlovic, cello (Sponsored by Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC)
Brad Edwards (website), trombone

  • Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
  • Friedrich Gulda: Concerto for Cello and Wind Band
  • Ferdinand David: Concertino for Trombone
  • Schumann: Symphony No. 4
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Mostly Mozart

Masterworks 3
Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 | 7:30 p.m.
Koger Center for the Arts
Sponsored by Family Medicine Centers of South Carolina
Doug Graham, clarinet (Sponsored by Liz & Hoyt Wheeler)
Vanessa Haynes & Bolton Ellenberg, piano (Sponsored by PHT Services, Ltd.)
2011 Arthur Fraser International Concerto Competition prize winners

  • Fauré: Masques et bergamasques
  • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
  • Mozart: Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos (I. Allegro)
  • Mozart: Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter"
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Soundscapes

Masterworks 4
Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012 | 7:30 p.m.
Koger Center for the Arts
Yosuke Kawasaki (website), violin
Edward Arron (website), cello

  • Jonny Greenwood (website): Popcorn Superhet Receiver
  • Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin & Cello
  • Sibelius: Valse triste
  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 3
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Love Songs

Masterworks 5 (Premium Concert)
Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 | 7:30 p.m.
Koger Center for the Arts

  • Wagner: "Prelude and Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde
  • Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
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Mother Russia?

Masterworks 6
Saturday, March 24, 2012 | 7:30 p.m.
Koger Center for the Arts
Martina Filjak (website), piano

  • Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
  • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
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Ode to Joy

Masterworks 7 (Premium Concert)
Saturday, April 28, 2012 | 7:30 p.m.
Koger Center for the Arts
Yuriy Bekker (website), violin
S.C. Vocal Soloists and Choirs TBA

  • Edward Hart (website): Under an Indigo Sky
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, "Choral"
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Special Event Concert: Piano Extravaganza

Sunday, June 10, 2012 | 4 p.m.
Koger Center for the Arts
Marina Lomazov, Joseph Rackers, Charles Fugo, Phillip Bush, Arthur Fraser International Concerto Competition winners, piano

  • Mozart: Concerto for Three Pianos
  • Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos
  • Bach: Concerto for Four Keyboards
  • Holst: The Planets, "Jupiter" (arr. for five pianos)
  • and more…
Piano Extravaganza is not a subscription concert.
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