The Art of Inspiration with Composer Augusta Read Thomas

We’re so pleased to present to you a wide range of presentations over the next few months-everything from workshops to research talks to artist conversations as a part of the Fall 2021 Peake Colloquium calendar.

Join us for Luise E. Peake Music & Culture Colloquium Series presents Augusta Read Thomas, composer and 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, with “The Art of Inspiration with Augusta Read Thomas.”

The Luise E. Peake Music & Culture Colloquium is a public event series hosted by the Music History, Ethnomusicology, and Experimental Music faculty at the University of South Carolina School of Music and is dedicated to showcasing diverse programming and guests, especially emerging scholars and artists.

Named after the late musicologist Professor Luise Eitel Peake-Dickerman, who served on the School of Music faculty from 1968 to 1994, the Peake Colloquium offers the School of Music, University, and Columbia communities with free workshops, concerts, scholarly talks, and films that engage with musical histories of the past and present, performance practices, and global cultures.

All Peake Colloquium events will be live-streamed for our guests who are uncomfortable or unable to come to campus. Events in the Recital Hall will be streamed via The University of South Carolina School of Music’s official YouTube page. Please register at least 24 hours before all other events so you can receive a Zoom link.  We hope to see you at some (or all!) of the Peake Colloquium events this semester!

All Luise E. Peake Music & Culture Colloquium events are free.