Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, Happy New Year! The next concert of the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra will be “Romantic Celebration” on Sunday, January 29, 2023, at the Beaufort High School Performing Arts Center. We are excited to have piano soloist and Steinway Artist Susan Merdinger perform again with the Orchestra. Ms. Merdinger will perform the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23. Beforehand, the BSO will perform the Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" in A minor, Op. 56. To whet your appetite for the Tchaikovsky piano concerto performance, you can listen on YouTube to Ms Merdinger...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, On Sunday, May 15, 2022, at 4:00 pm, the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra will perform its 2022 May concert “Romantic Blockbusters” at the Sea Island Presbyterian Church, 81 Lady’s Island Drive, Lady’s Island, SC 29907. This will be our final concert for the 2011-2022 season. The program will include the Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, composed by Max Bruch in 1866 as well as the Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, known as the “Reformation Symphony,” composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830. The violin soloist for the Bruch Violin...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s musical offering is the 1st Movement (Allegro maestoso – Tempo giusto) of the Violin Concerto No. 1, composed by Niccolò Paganini. The recording is from a concert by the BSO in March 2016 and is on YouTube: BSO plays the Paganini Violin Concerto in D, 1st Movement. The violin soloist is Tamás Kocsis. About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Four years ago Tamás Kocsis performed the Paganini Violin Concerto in D with the BSO. A groundbreaking technical achievement, the Paganini continues to be a violinist’s tour de force and a vehicle...