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CHARLIE Mag Honors Members of School of the Arts
CHARLIE magazine, which celebrates progressive culture in Charleston, will honor its selection of 50 Most Progressive people in Charleston tonight. Included in those 50 are several of the College of Charleston School of the Arts’ faculty, staff, alumni and supporters including… John Zeigler, a staunch supporter of the School of the Arts, is described by [...]Charleston Music Fest’s Opening Concert Celebrates Medical Recovery of Violinist
The College of Charleston School of the Arts is pleased to announce that violin professor and Director of Strings Lee-Chin Siow, critically-acclaimed soloist and Gold Medal winner of the 1994 Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition, will perform again, for the first time since a car crash that broke her arm – the one that holds [...]CofC Theatre Season 2012-13
***The canceled show from Tuesday, August 28 has been rescheduled for Thursday, August 30 at 7:30 p.m. The Department of Theatre in the College of Charleston School of the Arts announces its 2012-13 season! Download the pdf file to check out the line-up of works, and get your season subscription today! Opening the season will [...]Theatre Professor Reviewed in The New York Times
Scenic design professor Charlie Calvert designed the set for “The Comedy of Errors” performed by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. A New York Times review says, “This production of “The Comedy of Errors,” inventively directed by Jason King Jones, is a stylish, beautifully acted show that treats Shakespeare’s comedy as true farce.” Read another review of the production. Calvert [...]College of Charleston Alumnus Has Album on Grammy.com
College of Charleston alumnus Jay Shepard ’04 was an economics major with a passion for music (and a music minor) and this month, his passion paid off. The Florence, S.C., native released his debut album, Harsh Mistress, on July 3, 2012 (internationally on July 10 through iTunes Europe) with a preview track featured on Grammy.com. Shepard worked [...]Guitar Foundation of America Presents Conference and Concerts at the College of Charleston
From June 26 to July 2, 2012, the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) will hold its annual Convention and International Competition at the College of Charleston Department of Music, hosted by Grammy nominated professor Marc Regnier. The convention will take place at The Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts on the [...]Bookends: Chamber Symphony Then & Now
Magnetic South – an innovative partnership between the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and the Composition area of the College of Charleston (CofC) Music Department – presents Bookends: Chamber Symphony Then & Now. The second concert in the series this season takes place on Friday, March 30, 2012 at 8:00pm at the Simons Center Recital Hall, [...]‘Back to Bach’ with Sebastian Knauer
Sebastian Knauer, from Germany, will perform at the College of Charleston’s International Piano Series on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. at the College of Charleston Sottile Theatre, 44 George Street. He will play a program entitled “Back to Bach,” which will take audiences through a timeline of Bach’s influence on various composers. It [...]Dance Concert: Looking Back, Moving Forward
The Department of Theatre in the College of Charleston’s School of the Arts is excited to present its fourth annual dance concert, Looking Back, Moving Forward. This unique show provides the audience with a historical perspective of personal and cultural chronicles that help comprise who we are today. Looking Back, Moving Forward will run Saturday, [...]Prestigious Verner Award Given to Halsey Institute and Mark Sloan
The College of Charleston School of the Arts is proud to announce that one of the six recipients of this year’s Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Awards for the Arts is the College’s Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, with a nod to its director Mark Sloan. Sloan expresses, “It is both humbling and thrilling to have [...]
