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Handel the Great
2018-04-25

The Odeion Baroque Ensemble of the OSM presents

Handel the Great

Wednesday 25 April 2018

Odeion

19:30

The Odeion Baroque Ensemble presents this concert – Handel the Great. This concert consists of a variety of some of the most attractive and popular works by Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 - 1759). The famous Water Music, concerto’s and arias are on the programme. The artists who will perform, include members of the Henkins family – Tilla, Francois, Brahm, and Alba; the Kriges – Petrus and Maretha; Kimberley based oboist Kobus Malan; percussionist Heinrich Lategan and tenor Lance Phillip.

Petrus Krige arranged the works on the programme for an ensemble of violins, violas, cello, double bass, three recorders, two oboes, bassoon, harpsichord, organ, Baroque timpani and tenor.

The guaranteed highlight on the programme will be the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Handel composed his Water Music with the arrival of the new King George I on the Thames river. This king was Handel’s employer before (in Hannover). Thirty five years later he composed the Music for the Royal Fireworks for 59 wind instruments. About 12 000 people attended the performance in Green Park.

Lance Phillip will open the programme with the popular Where’er you walk from Semele - a Shakespeare sonnet set to music. He will also perform a complete secular cantata and give a rendition of opera extracts from Rodelinda.

The rest of the programme will consist of concerto’s for violin and oboe. Handel himself was a violinist and oboist. His only Violin Concerto, with demanding technical abilities, will be performed by Francois Henkins. Handel is most likely the most prominent composers of organ concerto’s. Maretha Krige plays the first and second movement from a lesser known organ concerto.

Where’er you walk, an aria from Semele
Adagio, from Organ Concerto in D minor
Excerpts from the three Water Music suites
Look down, harmonious Saint
Oboe Concerto in G minor
Violin Concerto in B-flat major (Sonata à 5)
Fatto inferno and Pastorello, from opera Rodelinda
Excerpts from Music for the Royal Fireworks

ADMISSION

  • R120 (adults)
  • *R80 (pensioners)
  • *R70 (UFS staff)
  • *R50 (students, learners and block bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket or online at http://online.computicket.com/web/

*Please note that tickets for pensioners, students, learners and UFS staff can only be purchased at a Computicket outlet (Shoprite Checkers) or at the doors since a valid card or ID has to be presented to qualify for the above mentioned discount.

ENQUIRIES
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504 / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za)


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Khanyisile Mthetwa – flute recital

Khanyisile Mthetwa – flute recital
with Lesley-Ann Mathews (piano)
6 August 2011
Odeion
19:30

Khanyisile began her musical education at the age of 15 at the Centre for Gifted Children in Johannesburg in 2000. Khanyisile made her début as soloist with the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra at the age of 16 with the Mozart Concerto No. 2 under the baton of Chris Dowdeswell. She studied at the University of Pretoria with dr John Hinch. After two years she continued her studies at the Music Conservatoire in Nice and played principal piccolo in the Symphony Orchestra of Lugano in Switzerland. She also completed a diploma specializing in orchestral training at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire in Milan (Italy) where she graduated as the premier prix laureate. In 2009 she completed her performance diploma study at the acclaimed Superior Conservatoire (Paris) under the tutelage of prof. Gabriel Fumet. During her studies abroad she received master classes from Trevor Wye, Tessa Brink, Ljubisa Jovanovic, Emmanuel Pahud to name but a few.

In 2005 Khanyisile was the overall winner in the UNISA competition for new Talent. She was the recipient of the section for woodwinds in the National Ronnie and Rhona Lubner competition for orchestral musicians. She was recipient of the Pretorium Trust bursary at the University of Pretoria and awarded a leadership bursary by the University of Pretoria and The National Research Foundation. She won the Apollo Foundation bursary for overseas study 3 years consecutively. She was awarded bursaries by both the National Arts Council and the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

In 2006 she played principal flute in the South African National Youth orchestra at the Beethoven Festival (Bonn, Germany). On the same tour she played principal flute in Beethoven 5th Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Herbert Blomstead. Khanyisile was also a member of the World Youth Orchestra in 2006. She plays regularly with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Johannesburg Festival Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, the MIAGI Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra. She has performed with the Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic, Milan soloists, the Nice Summer Festival Orchestra and at the Saint Chapelle (Paris). She has given recitals in all the major cities in South Africa and abroad (Atlanta, Washington D.C., Milan, Rome, Como, Geneva, London and Paris).

Khanyisile is currently the flute lecturer at the National School of the Arts.

Program:
Poulenc: Sonata for flute and piano
Hofmeyr: Incantessimo for solo flute
Prokofiev: Sonata for flute and piano

Master Classes:
Khanyisile will present master classes on Thursday, 4 August from 14:00 – 17:00 in the Odeion. Admission is free.

Admission:
R60 (adults)
R40 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk) and at the doors.

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

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