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Clarinet & Piano: OPUS
2018-08-30

with the Nöthling Strydom Duo - Danrè Strydom (clarinet) & Grethe Nöthling (piano) and David Griessel (visual artist David Griessel displaying the sketching process inspired by each composition performed)

30 August 2018
Odeion
19:30

Award-winning South African musicians, clarinetist Danrè Strydom and pianist Grethe Nöthling, started an exciting collaboration in 2016. Since recently returning to South Africa after several years abroad, these two musicians aim to provide global audiences with exhilarating performances of not only well-known and loved repertoire, but also of more unknown and interesting repertoire. The Duo performed at 2017 South African festivals and various national concert series. Both musicians (as part of Trio Intolerance) won the Free State Artists of the Year award at the Free State Arts Festival (2017). During 2018 the Duo was invited to perform at the International Clarinet Festival in Belgium. While in Europe, they recorded the first part of their CD of newly composed as well as underplayed South African compositions for clarinet and piano.

In this concert, titled Clarinet & Piano: Opus ZA, the Duo will be performing some of the lovely but demanding South African compositions which will appear on the CD. The selection includes works by well-established composers such as Clare Loveday, Noel Stockton, Hendrik Hofmeyr and Peter Klatzow, to mention a few. All the works are relatively short compositions, so the programme will include nine works in total. To emphasise the character of each of these compositions, South African visual artist, David Griessel, will do nine sketches that will be displayed on a screen behind the musicians. These videos made by Bloemfontein videographer, Zita, will include the complete drawing process, and the audience can follow each line and brush stroke during the performance of the music. After the concert, these original sketches, titled the same as the compositions, will be sold to interested audience members. These will be unique sketches, and the audience can look forward to this extraordinary collaboration of two musicians with a visual artist.

David Griessel graduated with a bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of the Free State. Earlier in 2018, he did an art residency, book launch and exhibition in Caylus and Saint Antonin (France). He currently works as an artist/writer/illustrator in Cape Town and is the art editor of the literary journal, New Contrast. He is part of the artist’s collective, Studio Clowder.

PROGRAMME:

  • Hendrik Hofmeyr: Notturno
  • Clare Loveday: Heatwave
  • Noel Stockton: Three Pieces
  • Peter Klatzow: Moments of Night
  • StephansGrove: Spieeltjie aan die wand
  • Isak Roux: Kleine Chronik
  • Surendran Reddy: Game I for Lîla
  • Alexander Johnson: Jazz Sonatine

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.

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Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)


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Her Lyrical Song

Her Lyrical Song

with Marguerite van Wyk (soprano), Piet Koornhof (violin), Danrè Strydom (clarinet) & Truida van der Walt (piano)

Sunday 1 March 2020
Odeion
16:00

A lyrical evening with a concert titled “Her Lyrical Song” with soprano Marguerite van Wyk, violinist Piet Koornhof, clarinetist Danrè Strydom and pianist Truida van der Walt. The programme will include works by Britten, Mozart, Whitacre, Schubert and S. Le Roux Marais.

Marguerite van Wyk her BMus (Ed) and BMus (Hons) performance degree under the guidance of Hanna van Niekerk at the UFS. During her studies she participated in numerous performances with Pacofs, the Youth Concert Festival together with the Pacofs Orchestra. She recently achieved her Master's Degree in Performance with distinction, under the guidance of Antoinette Olivier. Violinist Piet Koornhof is Associate Professor at the North West University (Potchefstroom). He studied with Professor Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York, and obtained a DMus in Musical Performance from the North West University. Danrè Strydom has established herself as one of South Africa's premier solo, chamber and orchestral musicians. After attending the Interlochen Arts Camp (USA), she studied with Heinrich Armer at the UFS. She furthered her studies at the Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, with renowned clarinettists Eli Eban and Eric Hoeprich. She holds two separate MMus degrees from the Royal Conservatory (Ghent University) and recently completed her PhD at the OSM. She was appointed woodwind lecturer at the OSM in 2014. Truida van der Walt is a well-known accompanist and chamber music player. After piano studies with Adolph Hallis (Johannesburg), she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Vienna). She was regularly invited by the provincial arts councils to accompany visiting overseas artists and has played for numerous winners of competitions.


PROGRAMME

Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
On this Island, Op. 11
Let the florid music praise!
Now the leaves are falling fast
Seascape
Nocturne
As it is plenty

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Aria: L’amero saro costante (Aminta)
From the opera: Il re pastore
with violin solo – Piet Koornhof

Eric Whitacre (Born 1970)
Five Hebrew love songs
Temuná (A picture)
Kalá Kallá (Light bride)
Lárov (Mostly)
Èyze shéleg (What snow)
Rakùt (tenderness)
with violin - Piet Koornhof

Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The shepherd on the rock)
with clarinet – Danré Strydom

Five songs of S. Le Roux Marias (1896 – 1979)
Lentelied
Dit is laat in die nag
Mali, die slaaf se lied
Rooidag


ADMISSION

  • R90 (adults)
  • *R50 (pensioners and UFS staff members)
  • *R40 (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. +27 51 401 2504)

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