Colour of Music Festival Returns to North Charleston for Special Series February 25-28
Colour of Music Festival Inc., the country’s largest black classical music organization headquartered in Charleston, SC, showcasing gifted classical composers and performers of African descent, is proud to announce its return to North Charleston at Eternal Father of the Sea Navy Chapel and the North Charleston Performing Arts Center February 25-28, 2026.
Presented in partnership with the City of North Charleston, Roper Saint Francis Health System, the Boeing Corporation, Crews Subaru and Chevrolet, and the South Carolina Stingrays, performances will showcase piano and vocal recitals and a chamber performance, February 25-26, with an orchestral finale with the Colour of Music Festival Orchestra at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center February 28.
"Debuting at the City of North Charleston’s Arts Fest in 2023, the Colour of Music Festival is proud to present its orchestra at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center with several chamber music settings. As the region’s cultural hub, we are excited to offer the City a new signature event that brings the classical arts to its residents,” said Lee Pringle, Colour of Music Festival Founder and Artistic Director.
COLOUR OF MUSIC FESTIVAL CALENDAR | FEBRUARY 25-28
Wednesday, February 25 | Eternal Father of the Sea Navy Chapel
Piano Recital • 2 p.m.
Edward E. Callahan, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, Frédéric Chopin Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49, Maurice Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, No.1 “Ondine,” and Joseph Joubert His Eye is On the Sparrow, are among the curated works performed at the Festival’s California debut.
Wednesday, February 25 | Eternal Father of the Sea Navy Chapel
Chamber Music Quartet, Quintet Ensembles & Sextet • 7 p.m.
Joseph Bologne, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Sonata for Two Violins in B-flat Major, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat Major, KV 452, Edmund Thornton Jenkins’ Reverie Phantasy and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s String Quartet No. 1 “Calvary.”
Thursday, February 26 | Eternal Father of the Sea Navy Chapel
Voice Recital • 2 p.m.
Angela Brown, soprano and Edward Callahan, piano
Richard Danielpour’s Selections from A Woman's Life, Daniel Schnyder’s My Boy from Charlie Parker's Yardbird and segments from Richard Danielpour’s Three Prayers from Margaret Garner, Ease Yourselves, He Is By, Epilogue.
Saturday, February 28 | North Charleston Performing Arts Center
Colour of Music Festival Finale • 7 p.m.
The finale features the Festival’s 60+ member orchestra spotlighting violinist Romuald Grimbert-Barré performing Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. Under the baton of guest conductor Maestro Leslie B. Dunner soprano Angela Brown will perform an aria from Chevalier de Saint Georges’ opera L'amant Anonyme. The performance concludes with the Charleston debut of CASOP: A Requiem for Rice, honoring the Africans who perished during the Atlantic slave trade for the economic gains realized during the enslavement of Black Africans throughout North America. The cultivation of rice by Africans contributed significantly to the building of America, particularly in the Charleston Lowcountry. Yet thousands of them were never given the proper ritual; hence, the title of the new composition is “Unburied, Unmourned, and Unmarked.”
2026 Colour of Music Festival Tickets and Information: $15-$40
North Charleston, NC
By phone: (888) 512-9835
Online: colourofmusic.org
At door: (credit card, cash, or check) before each performance
Colour of Music Festival Orchestra in North Charleston presented by Roper St. Francis Healthcare, Boeing, Crews Subaru, Crews Chevrolet, South Carolina Stingrays, and the City of North Charleston.