Admission Cost: FREE

Admission Cost: $27.00 to $32.00

About This Show

The Koger Center and ColaJazz Foundation are excited to present to you the new 2026 Live in the Lobby Jazz season! Featuring 6 stunning performances, you can get your season tickets today to get every show for one low price.

Created as a partnership between the Koger Center for the Arts and the ColaJazz Foundation, Live in the Lobby 2026 will consist of six concerts held throughout the Koger Center facility. Join us to experience this one-of-a-kind series designed for audiences seeking premier jazz and specialty experiences in an exceptional setting. 

About the Artist

Vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Mar Vilaseca was born in 1998, in Barcelona, Spain. Mar grew up in a musical environment and learned how to play and sing at a very young age, being exposed to a wide variety of music. She was classically trained in piano and traditional harmony at the Conservatorio del Liceo. At the age of 14, she started singing professionally in her father’s band, where she began her career in jazz and modern music.

Mar finished her classical studies in 2016 and despite her love for classical piano, she decided to focus her career on vocal jazz. She was accepted at the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya, where she studied her undergraduate degree in Jazz Voice Performance, graduating in 2020. During those college years, Mar became more and more passionate about the music and history of jazz and took her first of many trips to New York City. The diversity of culture and music captivated her, and soon she would decide to move to the United States. In 2020, before taking that step, she released her first album entitled Find the Way, which presents all original compositions. The recording was released by a British Label named Ubuntu Music.

Subsequently, Mar moved to New York to study her Master of Music in Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School, with Professors Wynton Marsalis, Carla Cook, Elio Villafranca, Kenny Washington, and Donald Vega among others. She gained experience in such different music majors including performance, education, music business, arranging and production, and she expanded her repertoire in multiple music genres. She graduated in 2022 with the Juilliard Career Advancement Fellowship Award.

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Admission Cost: FREE

Admission Cost: FREE

Admission Cost: FREE

Admission Cost: FREE

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Admission Cost: FREE

Echoes of Identity brings together a rich and varied tapestry of violin music by Jewish composers, highlighting both heritage and individuality of expression. Ernest Bloch’s Baal Shem stands as a cornerstone of the repertoire, evoking the spiritual depth and intensity of Jewish tradition, while Meira Warshauer’s Yiddish Fantasy offers a vibrant and personal reflection on cultural memory from a contemporary voice rooted here in Columbia, South Carolina. The program is further enriched by works of Israeli composers Paul Ben-Haim and Shulamit Ran, whose music expands the narrative in strikingly different ways, blending lyricism, modernism, and rhythmic vitality. Together, these works reveal the diversity and expressive breadth of Jewish composers across time and place.

Admission Cost: FREE