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Stefan Velkov Guitar Recital
2018-04-19

19 April 2018

Odeion

19:30

Bulgarian-born Stefan Velkov was introduced to music since earliest childhood. His official training in music theory, piano and guitar started at the age of seven.

Stefan received his first music degree as a guitar and light music performer from the Bulgarian State Conservatoire (later renamed to Bulgarian Academy of Music). At this stage (the late seventies of the 20th century) the guitar in Bulgaria was still regarded mostly as a light-music instrument. That is why it was included as a study subject only within the Light Music Department of the Conservatoire. The interest and the knowledge of the classical guitar was still at its infancy, but its popularity was growing fast. This made it necessary for the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture to make a historic decision: for the first time in Bulgarian music history, a decision was made to send a young Bulgarian guitarist to Germany to receive a proper music degree in classical guitar and to return to Bulgaria and introduce classical guitar as a subject at the Bulgarian Academy of Music.

After competing with all the most talented guitarists of the country, Stefan won the competition which enabled him to receive a master's degree in classical guitar from the Berliner Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler. He completed his studies in guitar, piano and composition with a special reward of the Hochshule as one of the five best students. During his studies he also won the competition for the best guitar composition.

During his studies abroad (1981 - 1988) Stefan met and had masterclasses with most of the best guitar professors and guitar maestros of our time: Maria-Livia Sao Marcos (Switzerland/ Brazil), Costas Cotsiolis (Greece), Dieter Kreidler (Germany) and Leo Brouwer (Cuba).

In 1986 he was appointed as the first classical guitar lecturer at the Bulgarian Academy of Music and chairperson of the guitar festivals and competitions. This was the time when his own active concert career began. Stefan's repertoire includes most of the great masterpieces ever written for this instrument, but he became more and more known for his own compositions for guitar which, according to critics, outshine the best known masterpieces created for classical guitar.

Stefan’s arrival in SA (1991), coincided with the search of the Free State Musicon for a qualified guitar lecturer in order to introduce the subject classical guitar as part of its music training programme. He was offered the position of senior guitar lecturer at the Musicon which he holds until present day. During this time he also taught at the University of the Free State (1992 - 1999).

Stefan has given concerts in Bulgaria, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, England and South Africa.

PROGRAMME

  • Velkov: Summer Dream
    From the golden heritage of the classical guitar:
    • Villa-Lobos: Prelude
  • Two Magnificent Arpeggios
    • Giuliani
    • Brower
  • Two Romantic Pieces:
    • Velkov: Serenade
    • Velkov: Adagio (The Magic Of Love)
  • Velkov: Bulgarian Suite for Guitar
    • I Bulgarian folk dance
    • II Bulgarian folk-singing
    • III Bulgarian folk dance in 7/8
    • IV Bulgarian folk-song
    • V Bulgarian folk dance in 9/8
  • Velkov: Tango
  • Velkov: Two Modern Dances
  • Velkov: The Wild Horse

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)


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FSSO Symphony Concert - Free State Symphony Orchestra

Gérard Korsten

Denise Sutton

Jeanne-Louise Moolman

Free State Symphony Orchestra
Thursday 26 May 2011
Odeion
19:30

Programme:
Anton EBERL : Symphony in C
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART : Sinfonia Concertante
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN : Symphony No. 1

Gérard Korsten is regarded by many as the best conductor this country has ever produced. He took up his appointment as Music Director of the London Mozart Players in 2010. Over the next three years Gérard will be fully involved in the orchestra’s musical development. He will conduct all of its major UK concerts and will work with the orchestra to develop foreign touring as well as new project opportunities. Gérard is also Principal Conductor of the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg Bregenz.

Gérard Korsten’s recent engagements have included Le nozze di Figaro (La Scala, Milan) Ariadne auf Naxos & Hans Werner Henze’s L’Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (Lyon) Don Giovanni (Royal Opera, Stockholm) Cosi fan tutte (Teatro del Maggio Musicale, Florence & San Carlo, Naples) and concerts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders and Netherlands Radio Kamer Filharmonie.

Gérard Korsten conducts regularly in the Vienna Konzerthaus, Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1995 with Camerata Salzburg, and his Berlin Festival debut in 1998 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Forthcoming engagements include Cosi fan tutte and Albert Herring (Glyndebourne), La Veuve joyeuse & Siegfried (Lyon) Le nozze di Figaro (Gothenburg) and a debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. His recordings include the Tchaikovsky Serenade and Souvenir de Florence with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe for DGG, Don Pasquale for TDK, and Die ägyptische Helena, Euryanthe and Alfonso und Estrella and for Dynamic.

Denise Sutton has been leader of the Odeion String Quartet and Head of the Strings Department at the University of the Free State since 2008. She obtained a B.Mus cum laude at the University of Stellenbosch. An Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Scholarship enabled her to go to Amsterdam, where she studied with Theo Olof and Nap de Klijn, as well as London. She was leader of the second violins of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and successfully auditioned for the English Chamber Orchestra. With these orchestras she had the opportunity of touring the UK, France, Spain, Germany, the USA and Canada. On her return to South Africa, she was concertmaster of the PACT Orchestra for almost twenty years, and was also leader of the Transvaal Chamber Orchestra, Johannesburg Festival Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of South Africa (COSA). She has been a member of many chamber groups, notably the Rosamunde Quartet, of which she was leader and co-founder. Denise has appeared as soloist with various orchestras. She has extensive teaching experience and has taught many successful students who are working professionally here and abroad. She serves on the jury for competitions such as ARTSCAPE and the UNISA national string competition and is an examiner for UNISA, the University of Pretoria and North-West University.

Jeanne-Louise Moolman, violist, was appointed as a member of the Odeion String Quartet and senior lecturer in viola at the University of the Free State in 2008. Studied at the University of Pretoria under Prof. Alan Solomon where she obtained the B.Mus and B.Mus.Hons degrees with distinction. In Salzburg she studied under Thomas Riebl. She is an experienced chamber musician who regularly performs in various combinations with some of South Africa’s leading musicians. Jeanne-Louise was a founding member of the Rosamunde String Quartet. As soloist she has performed several concertos, including the Suite Hebraïque (Bloch), the Concerto in C mineur of JC Bach, Harold in Italy (Berlioz) and the Sinfonia Concertante (Mozart) with different orchestras in the country. In 2008 she gave the world-premiere performance of Stefans Grové’s Concerto for Flute and Viola with the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa and was subsequently invited to perform this work at the 37th International Viola Congress in Stellenbosch. Jeanne-Louise has more than twenty years experience as principal violist of various professional orchestras in Gauteng and the Free State. As a student she won, among others, the ATKV Forté and Oude Meester competitions and in 1985 she was the first winner of the University of Natal 75th Anniversary Prize.


Admission
R120 (adults) per concert
R80 (pensioners, students and learners) per concert

Tickets @ Computicket (Shoprite / Checkers, Mimosa Mall)
Book online at www.computicket.com  

Enquiries:
Ella Kotze (FSSO), tel. 051 – 401 2342 (8:00 – 13:00)
www.fsso.org.za


 

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