Carolina Live
Carolina Live travels the region and features classical musicians from our area as well as those of international renown who visit our performance halls. Lauren Rico hosts the series.
Note: Carolina Live is looking for professional-quality vocal or instrumental recordings made in concert in the Carolinas in the past couple of years. Mail them to: Box 8990, Davidson, NC 28035-8990, attn. Carolina Live. For more info, call 877.333.8990.
Finlandia and Scheherazade are featured in a concert by the Winston-Salem Symphony; plus works by Alban Berg and Chris Brubeck that feature the violin.
The Brevard Music Center Orchestra play Mussorgsky and Dvorak, plus an intimate recital by Canadian mezzo-soprano Susan Platts.
The early-music and Baroque ensemble Rebel plays music by Vivaldi, Telemann, Corelli, and some less-well known composers in Spartanburg South Carolina.
The Vega String Quartet, plus faculty from Brevard Chamber Music - and solo guitar from the Rosario Guitar Festival in Columbia, SC.
Works by Beethoven, Rossini, Chopin and Brahms, in a program featuring the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and guest soloist Vladimir Feltsman.
The Winston-Salem Symphony is joined by mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile, who plays the concerto he wrote for the instrument; and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra welcomes the eclectic string trio "Time for Three". Plus Bach, Tchaikovsky and Debussy!
Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade joins the Symphony of the Midlands in a concert recorded shortly before her retirement, called "Ah Spring, a Night at the Opera"; plus Yuriy Bekker and the Ensemble of St. Clare play Vivaldi.
The Kontras Quartet, in residence with the Western Piedmont Symphony Orchestra, serves up Haydn, Glazunov and Schumann; they join the orchestra for the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Kelly Hall-Tomkins as soloist.
From the South Carolina Philharmonic’s season-ending concert in April of 2011 at the Koger Center in Columbia, this concert begins with a performance by the South Carolina Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. This concert is followed by one given at Chamber Music Charleston.
From the Greenville Orchestra’s Chamber Series, this program provides a sampling of 20th century and contemporary work ranging from Prokofiev’s well-known student symphony in homage to Haydn to a recent work featuring tambourine soloists from American composer Michael Daugherty.

