Odeion
19:30

Since 1991, the Harmonic Brass Munich has been renowned for their big, elegant brass sound. Carnegie Hall (New York), Arts Center (Seoul), Leipzig Gewandhaus: the five gentlemen are welcomed and feel at home everywhere in the world. Harmonic Brass travels around the globe playing around 120 concerts a year with changing programmes. An ensemble that spreads good humor: meticulous filing at their performance combined with baroque joie de vivre, serious musical work alternating with giggling boyishness. Five individuals, who couldn't be more unequal, melt to a unity on stage that is hardly ever to be met. Harmonic Brass is supported by an incredibly large number of fans. For the Goethe Institute Harmonic Brass has since 2000 been a cultural ambassador all over the world and the musicians from Munich also hold numerous international workshops. Whoever has been to a Harmonic Brass concert knows what the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” means when writing about an ensemble that "… with its glamorous-virtuous way of performing is one of the best of its kind worldwide."

Hans Zellner (trumpet) studied with Prof. Lachenmaier, Rolf Quinque and Wolfgang Guggenberger at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich as well as the Hochschule für Musik und Theater also in Munich.

Gergely Lukács (trumpet) studied with Prof. Károly Neumayer, Prof. István Palotai and Prof. Zoltán Szücs at the Franz-List Music Academy in Budapest as well as with Prof. Reinhold Friedrich at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe.

Andreas Binder (French horn) studied with Prof. Siegfried Hammer and Prof. Wolfgang Gaag at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater.

Thomas Lux (trombone) studied with Prof. Paul Schreckenberger at the Staatl. Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim.

Manfred Häberlein (tuba) studied at the Meistersinger-Conservatory in Nürnberg and with Tom Walsh at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich.

Programme:

Vivaldi – Concerto in C
Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565)
Bach – Jesu, Joy Of Man´s Desiring
(BWV 147)
Orff – O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)
Verdi – Triumphmarsch from Aida
Rimsky-Korsakov – Procession of the Nobles
Händel – The Harmonious Blacksmith
Bizet – Carmen
Khachaturian – Sabre Dance
Ravel – Bolero

Admission:

R120 (adults)
R80 (pensioners, students and learners)
R50 (group bookings of 10+)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall / Waterfront information desks) and at the doors.

Enquiries:

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 – 401 2504)