Magdalena de Vries (marimba) & Frank Mallows (vibraphone)

Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Odeion

19:30

Duo FourIVTwo featuring Magdalena de Vries (concert marimba) and Frank Mallows (vibraphone) started this formidable ensemble in 2003.   

Frank holds a M.Mus. degree from UCT and studied with Ed Saindon at Berklee College of Music (USA). Frank plays on a Musser gold bar vibraphone.  Magdalena obtained a Postgraduate Diploma with cum laude from the Tokyo College of Music (Japan) where she studied under Prof. Atsushi Sugahara. She won most of the National Music Competitions in South Africa, and was also winner of the Performing Australian International Competition in London (UK). Magdalena plays on a custom-made concert grand Marimba One marimba.

Duo FourIVTwo has performed with great success at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival; the Cape Town Concert Series (Baxter Concert Hall); the Aardklop Festival (Potchefstroom); Northwards House (Johannesburg); Baroque in the Bush (Kruger National Park); the Franschoek Festival; ZK Matthews Auditorium (UNISA); the Enoch Sontonga Conference Hall (UNISA); Oude Libertas Amphitheatre as well as the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival.

They are featured on the CD Myths, Magic and Marimbas.  Duo FourIVTwo is very passionate about performing South African compositions and continues to explore the rich talent of South African composers.

Expect an informative performance of visual spectacle and rich, rhythmic sonorous sensations.  

Programme:

W.A. Mozart – Fantasy in D minor, arr. FA Mallows

World premières – works by SA composers D. Kosviner & N. Stockton 

M. Scherzinger – Florestan's Island (world première)

C. Corea – Children's Songs, arr. FA Mallows

P. Klatzow – Variations on an Uncomposed Kyrie (SA première)

C. Loveday – Hoar Frost

I. Roux – Fasimba

Admission:

R130 (adults), R90 (pensioners, students and learners)

Tickets available at Computicket

Enquiries:   

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)