NEW MUSIC SERIES
CMA Jazz on Main
Presented by Family Medicine Centers of South Carolina
“Best Musical Director” by the Metrolina
Theatre Association of the Carolinas.
A dilettante of pop culture, Noel has
become a popular lecturer for theatres
and museums, creating and presenting
multi-media presentations on everything
from Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons
to Mel Brooks. In 2011, Freidline was
chosen for the Blumenthal Performing
Arts Association “Center Stage” award in
recognition of his excellence in service to
the arts.
Artistic Director Noel Freidline
The Columbia Museum of Art will
launch a new concert series, Jazz on
Main, on Friday, January 17, featuring
the internationally renowned swinging of
the Noel Freidline Quintet. Dr. Stephen
Serbin, owner of Family Medicine Centers
of South Carolina, volunteer on the CMA
Development Committee, and long time
supporter of the Museum, brought the
idea of a jazz series to life. Passionate about
music and art, he wanted a jazz program
similar in scope and class to the Chamber
on Main series, now in its 12th season
at the Museum. “Columbia already has
a world-class chamber series and jazz is
America’s chamber music, so it is only
fitting the Museum offer a world-class
jazz series as well,” says Dr. Serbin. “A
metropolitan area like Columbia only has a
few cultural institutions, so each one has an
obligation to be an engine for the arts.”
Dr. Serbin is exemplary of how a donor
can have a big impact on the Museum and
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our community. The series is generously
funded by Family Medicine Centers of
South Carolina.
The Noel Freidline Quintet is Freidline
on piano and vocals; Renée Ebalaroza,
vocals; Juan Rollan, saxophone; Rick Dior,
drumset; and Tom Hildreth, bass. They
released their seventh CD “Live at the Jazz
Corner,” in September of 2008. Their 2002
release “Four Nights at the Slammer,” spent
12 weeks on the national jazz radio charts
and broke into the top 20. The Quitntet
has played major festivals from Switzerland
to Florida and, from 2000 to 2003, was the
house band at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
“I feel every business and individual
capable of enriching the lives and education
of the community has an obligation to do
“All of the arts are interrelated,” says Dr.
so,” says Dr. Serbin. “It is important for
Serbin. “Music is inspired by the graphic
my medical practice to set an example of
arts and vice versa. They have a symbiotic
philanthropy in the
relationship. This is
I feel every business and one of the reasons
business community
to sponsor the arts
individual capable of
music concert series
and human services.
at the Museum have
enriching the lives and
If we can do it, so can education of the community been so successful.
others.”
The program for
has an obligation to do so.
the concert in April,
– Dr. Stephen Serbin. inspired by the Japan
Noel Freidline was
chosen specifically
in the Jazz Age exhibition, is a good
by Dr. Serbin to be the artistic director of
example of the fusion and symbiosis of
the series. Freidline is a pianist, vocalist,
music and visual art.”
arranger, composer, educator and has been
the leader of his own group since 1991. He
The 2014 Jazz on Main series will be
was named Best Jazz Musician by Charlotte
presented at the Museum on January 17,
Magazine in 2006 and in 2009 was named
April 18, September 12, and November 14.