Carlos Moseley Chamber Music Series

The Friends of the Petrie School of Music hosts the annual Carlos Moseley Chamber Music Series, featuring four concerts by world-renowned musicians followed by champagne receptions that provide a rare opportunity to meet the performers. The intimate setting of Daniel Recital Hall, which holds just 340 people and was praised for its outstanding acoustics by Chamber Music America, enables each patron to experience every nuance, every facial expression, every finite movement made by these incredible artists as they perform.

Season subscriptions are open to the public for $125 per person. Contact Sarah Spigner at (864) 596-9193 or sarah.spigner@converse.edu. 

2012-2013 Chamber Music Series

The American Chamber Players play Appalachian Spring

September 24, 2012
To open the 30th Anniversary season of the Carlos Moseley Chamber Music Series, the American Chamber Players will be joined by distinguished guest artists for a performance of Aaron Copland’s masterpiece, Appalachian Spring. This American classic was premiered at the Library of Congress in 1944, and the ACP and friends will perform it in Copland’s brilliant, thirteen-instrument original version. Long-time favorites of the Moseley Series, the American Chamber Players were founded by Miles Hoffman in 1985, and their fascinating programs with varied instrumental combinations have delighted concert audiences from coast to coast ever since.

Amy I-Lin Cheng, piano

October 29, 2012
Piano virtuoso Amy I-Lin Cheng has thrilled audiences all over the world with her dynamic performances, in venues ranging from New York’s Carnegie Hall to the National Recital Hall of Taiwan. She won the 2000 Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition, and toured Asia after winning the top prize in the Rising Young Artist Series competition in Taipei. The New York Concert Review wrote that “her control of the keyboard is complete,” and praised her “wide range of touch, color, and dynamics.” Her Moseley Series program will include works by Mozart, Schumann, and Gershwin.

The Brentano String Quartet

Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. The Philadelphia Inquirer praises its “seemingly infallible instincts for finding the center of gravity in every phrase and musical gesture.” In addition to performing the entire two-century range of the standard quartet repertoire, the Brentano Quartet has a strong interest in both very old and very new music.

Chanticleer

April 16, 2013
Named for the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for the seamless blend of its twelve male voices ranging from countertenor to bass, and for its original interpretations of vocal literature from Renaissance to jazz, and from gospel to venturesome new music. Chanticleer first appeared on the Moseley Series in 2004.

About the Friends of the Petrie School of Music

In 1983, a group of devoted faculty, administrators and community supporters formed the Friends of the School of Music. Among them was Carlos Moseley, whose world-wide musical connections helped establish Converse College as a venue for such eminent performers as Charles Wadsworth and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Yo-Yo Ma, Chanticleer, the Tokyo String Quartet, the Beaux Arts Trio and many others. In 2004, the Friends of the Petrie School of Music renamed our concert series the Carlos Moseley Chamber Music Series.

For decades the name Carlos Moseley has been synonymous with musical excellence. This great musician is revered for his contributions to music not only in his hometown of Spartanburg, but also around the world. Carlos has enjoyed a distinguished career as a concert pianist, professor, and as president of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Chairman of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York. He has served on the boards of Converse College and Brevard Music Center, and has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School, Duke University, Wofford College and Converse College. He is also a recipient of the Order of the Palmetto, the highest honor available to a citizen of South Carolina.

Subscriptions to the Moseley series and additional donations made by the Friends of the Petrie School of Music are crucial sources of support for Converse music students. Most of the Moseley Series artists offer master classes to Converse students, which is a hallmark of the Petrie School of Music experience.