Name: Benjamin Woods in concert
Start: 2025-11-06T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 700 Park Ave, Florence, SC

Benjamin Woods will perform a piano recital of works of Beethoven and Brahms at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 6 at First Presbyterian Church, Florence, SC (corner of Cherokee and Park Avenue). The concert is free and open to the public.
As a pianist, Woods has presented many faculty recitals at FMU, chamber music and solo concerts at numerous other colleges and universities and performances at community concert series and festivals. He has been featured as a guest soloist with the Florence Symphony Orchestra and with the Florence Masterworks Choir. Woods has also performed concertos with conductor John Paul and members of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and with Nicholas Smith and the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra.
Woods was selected as one of 12 national finalists in the U.S. Information Agency’s Artistic Ambassador Competition and one of 10 finalists in the Beethoven International Piano Competition.
Now a professor emeritus of music at FMU, Woods received the dual distinctions of being named one of the FMU board of trustees’ Research Scholars and receiving the J. Lorin Mason Distinguished Professor Award.