Show Must Go On, Adieu Matthew, Bonjour Colour of Music Festival, Black Professional Classical Musicians Festival October 19-23, Charleston

Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi

Maestro Marlon Daniel

October 13, 2016 Charleston SC— The 2016 Colour of Music Festival is pleased to announce its five-day festival is fast approaching, notwithstanding the wrath of Hurricane Matthew and its aftermath.

Now in its fourth year, the Colour of Music Festival opens this Wednesday, October 19 through Sunday, October 23 presenting a musical kaleidoscope of black classical composers, performers, and artists from across the globe at various venues throughout historic Charleston, South Carolina.

Showcasing acclaimed black chamber ensemble players and artists to form the Colour of Music Festival Orchestra, the event brings leading performers from Canada, France, Britain, Colombia, and the Caribbean among others to Charleston.

“This is the second year the Festival has opened two weeks after a tropical storm or hurricane and our organizers, the City of Charleston’s Office of the Mayor, Office of Cultural Affairs, Charleston Area Visitor and Convention Bureau and Gaillard Center management are notifying locals and visitors alike that Charleston is ready to welcome them – we are very appreciative of how everyone is helping us get the word out,” says Lee Pringle, Festival founder and producer.

The Colour of Music Festival includes symposiums, organ and piano recitals, vocal recitals, a chamber series, and an evening Masterworks series including a special Gala evening Saturday, October 22. Highlights include the début of Chevalier de Saint Georges’ only opera every discovered, The Anonymous Lover, featuring Magali Léger, native of Saint George’s birthplace, the Isle of Guadeloupe, showcasing the Festival’s All Things French (Toutes Les Choses Françaises) motif.

Internationally renowned conductor Marlon Daniel will again serve as Festival Music Director with leading black maestros serving as guest conductors to lead the Masterwork Series’ Colour of Music Festival Orchestra.

|COLOUR OF MUSIC FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE|

Special Event Presentation • 6:00pm • Charleston Library Society
Mon Oct 17, Dr. Rufus Jones, Jr., Author, Negro at Home, Maestro Abroad

Symposium Presentations • 10:30am • Gaillard Center, Salon 1
Wed Oct 19, French Connection to

Black Classical Music                                                                                                   

Thu Oct 20, Black Opera Legends                                                                                                                

Fri Oct 21, Black Musicologist Forum                                                                                                          

Sat Oct 22, The Legacy of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor         

                                                                                                    

High Noon Organ Recitals • 12:00pm • Mt. Zion AME Church

Wed Oct 19, Alvin Blunt                                                                                                                  

Thu Oct 20, Nathaniel Gumbs

Fri Oct 21, Roy Belfield, Jr.                                                                                                              

Sat Oct 22, Rasaan Hakien         

                                                                                                    

Chamber Music Vocal Matinées • 2:00pm • St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church

Wed Oct 19, KB Solomon, Bass                                                                                                      

Thu Oct 20, Patrick Daily, Countertenor                                                         

Fri Oct 21, Brandie Sutton, Soprano                                                                   

Sat Oct 22, Magali Léger

                                                                                                                  

Ebony and Ivory Piano Recitals • 4:00pm • St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church

Wed Oct 19, Clayton Stephenson                                                                    

Thu Oct 20, Sakura Myers                                                                                                               

Fri Oct 21, Isata Kanneh-Mason                                                                         

Sat Oct 22, Lawrence Quinnett

                                                                       

Chamber Evening Recitals • 6:00pm • Avery Research Center (McKinley Washington Auditorium)

Wed Oct 19, Kanneh-Mason Chamber Trio                                                    

Thu Oct 20, Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, Violinist                                         

Fri Oct 21, Thomas Flippin, Classical Guitarist                                               

Sat Oct 22, Romuald Grimbert-Barré, Violinist  

                                                                                                    

Masterworks Series • Gaillard Center

Thu Oct 20 8:00pm

The Anonymous Lover (petit opera) AMERICAN PREMIERE     

Colour of Music Virtuosi, Marlon Daniel, conductor

Magali Léger, soprano, Everett Suttle, tenor, Washington Isaac Holmes, baritone

Fri Oct 21 8:00pm

Colour of Music Festival Orchestra                                                   

Marlon Daniel, conductor

Romauld Grimbert-Barré, violin

Clayton Stephenson, piano

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 26, Sergei Prokofiev

Prelude à l'Après-midi d'un faune, Claude Debussy

Violin Concerto No.1 in g minor, Op. 26, Max Bruch

The Oak, Florence Price

Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, Antonin Dvorak

Sat Oct 22 7:00pm

Gala Performance

Carmina Burana, Carl Orff

Roderick Cox, guest conductor

Brandie Sutton, soprano, Patrick Dailey, countertenor, KB Soloman, bass

Across the Calm Waters of Heaven, Ahmed Alabaca

                                                                                                                                                              

Sun Oct 23 5:00pm

Matinee Memorial Performance

Requiem, Gabriel Fauré

Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (Song of Destiny), Johannes Brahms

David E. Morrow, guest conductor

Kimwana Doner, soprano, Washington Isaac Holmes, baritone

Colour of Music Festival Ticket Information

$11-$72

In person: Gaillard Center Box Office, 95 Calhoun Street, Charleston

By phone (843) 242-3099

Online: www.colourofmusic.org

At door: (credit card, cash or check) before each performance

Series packages with discounts up to 30% off available; special rates onsite for active duty and reserve U.S. military personnel and college students with ID; all-inclusive packages for college professors/administrators, church groups, and groups of ten or more available; $10 for schools/church youth groups

About the Colour of Music Festival

Based in Charleston, South Carolina and organized in 2013, the Colour of Music Festival, Inc. presents a diverse classical repertoire of baroque, classical and 20^th century music at the highest of musical standards to diverse audiences throughout the Lowcountry, regionally and nationally. www.colourofmusic.org

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