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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.

ENQUIRIES
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)


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Vassily Primakov piano recital

Thursday, 6 June 2013
Odeion
19:30

Since the release of his recording of the Chopin Piano Concertos, Vassily Primakov has been hailed as a pianist of world class importance.  Deseret News (Salt Lake City) wrote: “…a pianist's pianist.  He is a giant of the keyboard.”  Gramophone wrote: “Primakov's empathy with Chopin's spirit could hardly be more complete”, and the American Record Guide stated: “This is a great Chopin pianist.  Primakov's timing is perfect.”  MusicWeb-International called the CD “one of the great Chopin recordings of recent times.  These are performances of extraordinary power and beauty”.  In 1999, as teenaged prizewinner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Primakov was praised by Donald Rosenberg of the Cleveland Plain Dealer: “How many pianists can make a line sing as the 19-year-old Moscow native did on this occasion?”

Vassily entered Moscow's Central Special Music School at the age of eleven as a pupil of Vera Gornostaeva.  He won first prize in the Rachmaninoff International Young Artist Competition.  At seventeen he pursued his studies at the Juilliard School with the noted pianist, Jerome Lowenthal.  At Juilliard he won the William Petschek Piano Recital Award, which presented his debut recital at Alice Trully Hall.  While he was a student there, Primakov was placed among the top two laureates of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, and won both the silver medal and the Audience Prize in the 2002 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition.  He won first prize in the 2002 Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions.   In 2007 he was named the Classical Recording Foundation's Young Artist of the Year.  In 2009, Primakov’s Chopin Mazurkas recording was named “Best of the Year” by National Public Radio and that same year he began recording Mozart’s 27 piano concertos in Denmark.  BBC Music Magazine (November 2010) praised the first volume of Primakov’s Mozart Concertos: “The piano playing is of exceptional quality: refined, multi-coloured, elegant of phrase and immaculately balanced, both in itself and in relation to the effortlessly stylish orchestra…By almost every objective criterion, Vassily Primakov is a Mozartian to the manner born, fit to stand as a role model to a new generation.”

Vassily has released numerous recordings for Bridge Records which include works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Phillip Glass, Arlene Sierra and Roul Ruders.

In 2011, Vassily, along with his duo partner, Natalia Lavrova, established a new and vibrant record company, L.P. Classics, Inc.  Their first release was Anton Arensky: Four Suites for Two Pianos. Most recently they released Primakov's Live in Concert Album that includes works by Medtner, Schumann, Brahms' Handel Variations and Ravel's La Valse.  

Programme:

Chopin: Polonaise in C-sharp minor, Op. 26, sNo.1
Chopin: 12 Selected Mazurkas 
Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 "Heroic"
Van Eeden: Sonata No. 5 in B-flat minor, BVE 74 (2013) 
Scriabin: Prelude for the left hand in C-sharp minor, Op. 9, No.1
Scriabin: Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30
Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 (revised version)

Admission:

R130 (adults), R90 (pensioners), R50 (students and learners), R50 (group booking of 10+)
Tickets available at Computicket.

Enquiries:       

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

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