Friday, September 19, 2025
Splinter Reeds
One of the world's leading reed quintets makes its South Carolina debut. Splinter Reeds is "a group who combine exceptional virtuosity with an adventurous spirit, and a collective approach grounded in shared perceptiveness.” (The Wire Magazine, 2024).
Friday, November 14, 2025
Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives
USC music faculty Greg Stuart and David Kirkland Garner lead a cadre of students in scenes from experimental composer Robert Ashley’s quirky, mesmerizing 1980s “opera,” Perfect Lives. Featuring USC professor Ed Madden, former Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC.
Friday, January 30, 2026
Tessellatum
Violist Nadia Sirota and cellist Gabriel Cabezas present Donnacha Dennehy's epic work Tessellatum, performed live with pre-recorded viola and 11 microtonally-tuned viols. Projected animation by Steven Mertens.
Friday, March 20, 2026
Holy Visions
A virtuosic all-female vocal new music super group, including USC's own Rachel Calloway, comes together in Columbia for a special night centered around John Zorn's The Holy Visions.
All Southern Exposure concerts are FREE.
Southern Exposure Gala ’26
Saturday, March 21, 2026, 8-11 p.m.
This evening features a special, intimate, one-woman performance for voice and electronic processing by the extraordinary vocalist and composer Eliza Bagg, aka Lisel. A member of the Grammy-winning voice ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, Lisel is known for her "ethereal" aesthetic (New York Times) and "gossamer" pop-styled performances (The New Yorker).