Years
2019 2018
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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For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

Venue:  Scaena Theatre, UFS-Main Campus

Language: English 

Genre: Choreopoem / Drama

 

Date and times:

12 September @ 19:30

13 September @ 19:30

14 Septermber@ 19:30

 

Tickets:         

R 40.00 per person

R 30.00 for students, scholars,

R 25.00 for pensioners

 

Bookings Computicket (0861 915 8000)

 A beautiful fusion between dance, poetry, drama and music is what you can expect in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, the next play brought to the stage by the University of the Free State Drama Department. Issues women all over the world are struggling with, like abuse, identity crises, the coming of age and self-love, empowerment and depression, are themes this choreopoem explores. Written in 1975 by American author Ntozake Shange, it is today just as relevant as then.

 For Colored Girls uses nineteen poems by seven women who experience different individual problems. Each of these characters go through a journey of their own but come to realise that they are not alone. While they are all confronted with similar issues, they are not as different from each other after all.

“she’s half-notes scattered

without rhythm/ no tune

sing her sighs

sing the song of her possibilities

sing a righteous gospel

let her be born”- Lady in Brown

The characters’ names reflect the colours of the rainbow: Lady in Red, Lady in Blue, Lady in Brown, Orange, Yellow, Purple and Green.

American playwright, poet and feminist activist fighting for the rights of black women, Ntozake Shange, was born in Trenton New Jersey, as Paulette Williams. When she separated from her first husband, she often attempted to commit suicide. However, focusing her anger and hurt on the limitations that black women have she was able to regain her inner strength. She then took her African name, from South African friends at the time – Ntozake Shange – which means “she who comes with her own things “and “she who walks like a lion”.

Being an educator, performer/director, writer and committed solo spoken word artist, she said “the poems find[ing] their way through me to the audience”, but that she was so nervous in the beginning of putting these poems into a performance, because “I was a performance poet, not a theatre artist.”

For Colored Girls will be performed by second year drama students from the UFS, from 12 – 14 September 2018, at 9:30 in the Scaena Theatre, UFS.

Please note the age restriction of 16 years, as some content is too mature for younger viewers. Tickets are available at Computicket. For more information go to https://www.facebook.com/ufsdrama/

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