Events (Category: Performances) | Columbia Museum of Art

Tuesday October 03

5:30 pm

Baker & Baker Presents the Amernet String Quartet and Friends

Tuesday, October 3 | Galleries open 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Concert 6:30 – 8:15 p.m.

Host musicians mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway, tenor Dominic Armstrong, and pianist Phillip Bush welcome the Amernet String Quartet for a concert inspired by the CMA Collection.

Thursday October 26

7:00 pm

Drag Bingo at the CMA

Cover girl, you better work! In celebration of Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray: Rendez-Vous, get ready to strike a pose at the return of Drag Bingo, hosted by drag queen extraordinaire Patti O’Furniture, featured on HBO’s We’re Here.

Sunday October 29

4:00 pm

Chaye Alexander Presents Live on Boyd Plaza Featuring Conversation Piece

The season premiere features Charlotte-based contemporary jazz sextet Conversation Piece. With Willie Walker on bass guitar and vocals, Carl Ratliff on saxophone and flute, Darryl Payton on trombone, Charlton Taylor on keyboards, Derek McCoy on guitar, and Christian Whitley on drums, Conversation Piece has one goal in mind: to ensure a good time is had by all.

Friday November 10

7:00 pm

Arts & Draughts

Celebrate CMA’s fall exhibition Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray: Rendez-Vous at your favorite museum party!

Saturday November 11

10:00 am

Day of the Dead Celebration

Join Palmetto Luna on Boyd Plaza to celebrate Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos). This free event includes a Day of the Dead altar, arts and crafts, live music, folkloric dances, a live painting session, and other cultural activities.

Monday November 13

6:00 pm

CMA Chamber Music on Main

Monday, November 13 | Happy Hour and Galleries Open 6:00 p.m. | Concert 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Playing works by Beethoven and Arensky, violinist Tessa Lark and cellist Alice Yoo join artistic director and pianist Andrew Armstrong for a very special return to your museum’s chamber music series.

Friday November 17

10:30 am

Letters from Anne and Martin

In collaboration with the Anne Frank Center at USC, the CMA presents a special performance of the stage play Letters from Anne and Martin, directed by Mario Haynes of the Anne Frank Center at USC, performed by Parish Bradley and Alexandra Gellner of Anne Frank Center USA, and presented in connection with the annual Anne Frank Center Awards.

Wednesday November 29

6:00 pm

Baker & Baker Presents Forests of Noise

Wednesday, November 29 | Galleries open 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Concert 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Head to the CMA for an evening of experimental performance in collaboration with Greg Stuart and Cormac Cannon of the USC School of Music. From composer Michael Pisaro-Liu, fields have ears (11): forests of noise was conceived as a virtual forest in ecstatic re-creation performed by a group of 55 musicians consisting of solo percussion, an experimental music ensemble, and a wind ensemble augmented by seven percussionists.

Monday December 11

6:00 pm

CMA Chamber Music on Main

Monday, December 11 | Happy Hour and Galleries Open 6:00 p.m. | Concert 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

The British are coming! The Barbicans bring some of England’s greatest music to Main Street. An impossibly brief survey of British composers, from 17th-century Henry Purcell to 20th-century Benjamin Britten, runs the emotional and artistic gamut with the Barbican String Quartet — featuring Amarins Wierdsma and Kate Maloney on violin, Christoph Slenczka on viola, and Yoanna Prodanova on cello.

Sunday December 17

4:00 pm

Jazz with Mark Rapp: Swing, Santa, Swing

Transport yourself to a winter wonderland of music and merriment as trumpeting maestro Mark Rapp leads a jazz quintet of world-class musicians accompanied by a featured vocalist

Monday March 04

6:00 pm

CMA Chamber Music on Main

Monday, March 4 | Happy Hour and Galleries Open 6:00 p.m. | Concert 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Dubbed by artistic director Andrew Armstrong as “The Kaleidescope Concert,” this third show of the season features “one of two great valveless horn players in the Western Hemisphere,” R.J. Kelley. Kelley joins Armstrong on piano, Alexander Fiterstein on clarinet, Amy Schwartz Moretti on violin, Gabriela Diaz on viola, and Raphael Bell on cello.

Monday April 08

6:00 pm

CMA Chamber Music on Main

Monday, April 8 | Happy Hour and Galleries Open 6:00 p.m. | Concert 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

For the final program of the season, artistic director Andrew Armstrong advises concertgoers to expect the unexpected.

All Events

Baker & Baker Presents the Amernet String Quartet and Friends

Tuesday, October 3 | Galleries open 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Concert 6:30 – 8:15 p.m.

Drag Bingo at the CMA

Chaye Alexander Presents Live on Boyd Plaza Featuring Conversation Piece

Arts & Draughts

Day of the Dead Celebration

CMA Chamber Music on Main

Monday, November 13 | Happy Hour and Galleries Open 6:00 p.m. | Concert 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Letters from Anne and Martin

Baker & Baker Presents Forests of Noise

Wednesday, November 29 | Galleries open 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Concert 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.

CMA Chamber Music on Main

Monday, December 11 | Happy Hour and Galleries Open 6:00 p.m. | Concert 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Jazz with Mark Rapp: Swing, Santa, Swing

CMA Chamber Music on Main

Monday, March 4 | Happy Hour and Galleries Open 6:00 p.m. | Concert 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

CMA Chamber Music on Main

Monday, April 8 | Happy Hour and Galleries Open 6:00 p.m. | Concert 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.