“An Afternoon with Kreisler”

with Samson Diamond (violin) & Dana Cilliers (piano)

Sunday, 19 May 2013

Odeion

16:00

The Odeion School of Music cordially invites you to a free OSM Sunday Afternoon Concert with violinist, Samson Diamond and pianist, Dana Cilliers.    

They will perform works and arrangements by Fritz Kreisler.  The programme includes works like Caprice Viennois, Rondino on a theme by Beethoven, Tambourin Chinois,  Recitativo & Scherzo Caprice for solo violin and Syncopation as well as as arrangements by Kreisler like Albeniz’ Tango, Op.165 No.2, Danse Espagnole by Granados and Londonderry Air - Farewell to Cucullain.

Samson, leader of the Odeion String Quartet, is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (UK) where he obtained both the Bachelor of Music Honours degree First Class (2006) and his Master of Music Performance (2007) degree with distinction. Samson got his first taste of music in Soweto, where he studied with the founding director of Buskaid, Rosemary Nalden and in the UK with Richard Ireland, Pauline Nobes and Philippe Graffin. He has won many prizes, including the prestigious 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist for Music, the Charles Hallé Award; the RNCM Eric Nicholson Bow Prize, the RNCM Major Entrance Award, Edward Heaton Scholarship and the RNCM Philip Newman Violin Prize.

As a freelance orchestral player in the UK, Samson played in the Hallé Orchestra, the Academy of St Martins in the Fields, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, and the Academy of Ancient Music. He has been heard in concert in prestigious venues such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Berlin, Bela Bartok National Concert Hall in Budapest and the Musikverein in Vienna.  Samson has appeared as soloist with L’Orchestre Nationale d’France, the Buskaid Ensemble and prominent orchestras in South Africa, including the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra and the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dana Cilliers studied piano with Thomas Rajna at UCT. He completed a BMus and MMus degree.  As a student, he performed as a soloist with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, the CAPAB Orchestra and other ad hoc orchestras. He gave a number of public solo and ensemble recitals, and the SABC broadcast both solo recitals and orchestral performances on radio and television. In 1993, after teaching at schools in the Free State, he took a position as a lecturer in piano at the University of the Free State. In addition to numerous, regular solo and chamber recitals, notably as member of the Henkins-Cilliers Piano Trio. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Bloemfontein, and he also performs regularly as an accompanist at local and national competitions. 

Admission: Free (no booking necessary)

Enquiries: Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 – 401 2504)