Upcoming Events

Robert McDuffie Center for Strings Fabian Concert Series

The Fabian Concert Series continues at Spivey Hall with an evening of large-scale chamber masterworks featuring violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, Artistic Director of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, cellist Raman Ramakrishnan, and pianist Benjamin Hochman, joined by McDuffie Young Artists. The program centers on two monumental works of the piano chamber repertoire.

Independence
A concert celebrating the 250th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence

Alan Morrison & Friends

Alan will be joined by Michael Tiscione, Acting Principal Trumpet of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for a not-to-be-missed performance. 

Spivey Hall Children's Choir Program: Britten to Bluegrass featuring the Chuck Nation Band

The award-winning Spivey Hall Children’s Choir Program proudly presents its spring concert.

Season Opening Celebration: Richard Goode, piano

“Richard Goode is one of the finest pianists in the world. Few can match his unfailingly beautiful tone, effortless technical command, interpretive insight, and total emotional commitment to the music he plays.” 

— The Washington Post 

Hilary Hahn, violin
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Yekwon Sunwoo, piano

“Hahn conjured into being a cathedral of sound: spacious and full of dazzling beauty.”
— Washington Post  

“Goerne displayed complete vocal freedom, some of his high notes… reaching towards heaven.”
— New York Classical 

Igor Levit, piano

“One of the most significant pianists of our time.” 
–   The New Yorker 

“As you’d predict from an artist who combines acute intelligence and technical panache, it’s utterly absorbing.” 
–   Gramophone 

Blind Boys of Alabama

“Living legends of gospel music.” 
– NPR 

“For more than seventy-five years since my Gospel-singing, schoolteacher mother introduced me to the Blind Boys from Alabama, we have been graced with their magnificent music, their thundering, harmonic power that moves soul and spirit. They’ve stood the test of time and they’re still striking hot iron with every note.” – Taj Mahal 

Spivey Hall Children’s Choir Holiday Concert

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano
Samson Tsoy, piano

“A piano duo on superb form.” 
– The Times 

“Electrifying intimacy.” 
– The Guardian  

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

“Able to let the music breathe… conjuring an impeccable combination of clarity, energy and elegance.”  

— Financial Times 

David Coucheron, violin
Julie Coucheron, piano
And Friends

“During the violin concerto, … Coucheron made the lightning-quick passages of notes sound exquisitely musical.” 
– Atlanta Journal Constitution 

“Julie Coucheron exhibited dizzying virtuosity, dashing up and down the keyboard like a meticulously calibrated musical cyclone.”
– ArtsATL

Yeol Eum Son, piano

“The piano entry was suffused with winning guile, the phrasing with just enough expectant hesitancy to draw in the listener.”
– The Edinburgh Music Review

Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin
Thomas Dunford, lute

“A Baroque violinist of rare imagination and flair.” 
— Gramophone 

“Dunford spurns the notion that continuo should have parameters. After all, rules are meant to be broken — or, his word, ‘explored’.”
– Early Music America 

Kimberly Marshall, organ

“A multi-faceted musician who pushed the organ to its limit with her virtuosic demands in playing and registration. This was a royal performance by one of our royalty!”
– The American Organist

“Marshall played with wonderful lightness… and an almost dance-like rhythm that I found most delightful.”
– Fanfare 

Paul Lewis, piano

“Quietly commanding… Lewis lets the music speak with remarkable clarity.” 

— The Washington Post 

Spivey Hall Children’s Choir Spring Concert