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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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YURA LEE violin recital

with Tertia Visser Downie (piano)

8 November 2013

Odeion

19:30

Violinist/violist Yura Lee, first prize winner of 2013 ARD Competition in Germany, is enjoying a career that spans almost two decades, and takes her all over the world. Her musical integrity and her compelling artistry were praised by both the critic and some of the most respected artists of today.

At age twelve, Yura became the youngest artist ever to receive the Debut Artist of the Year prize at the "Performance Today" awards given by National Public Radio. She also received the Avery Fisher Career Grant - one of the most prestigious prizes given to young artists. She received numerous international prizes from competitions, including the first prize at the 2013 ARD Competition (Germany), first prize and the audience prize at the 2006 Leopold Mozart Competition (Germany), first prize at the 2010 UNISA International Competition (South Africa), first prize at the 2013 Yuri Bashmet International Competition (Russia), and top prizes in the Indianapolis (USA), Hannover (Germany), Kreisler (Austria) and Paganini (Italy) Competitions.

Yura studied at the Juilliard School (New York City), New England Conservatory (Boston), Salzburg Mozarteum (Austria), and at the Kronberg Academy (Germany). Her main teachers included Namyun Kim, Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Miriam Fried, Paul Biss, Thomas Riebl, Ana Chumachenko, and Nobuko Imai.  

As a soloist, she has appeared with many major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Symphonieorchester, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, and many others. She has performed with conductors Christophe Eschenbach, Lorin Maazel, Myung-Whun Chung, among many others.

Yura will be accompanied by pianist, Tertia Visser Downie.  Tertia is an accomplished South African pianist who studied under national and international piano masters John Antoniadis, and London-based Martino Tirimo after winning the prestigious Mabel Quick Scholarship.

She completed her honours degree in music at the University of Stellenbosch, as well as achieving the UNISA Performers’ and Teachers’ Licentiates, with distinction in both qualifications. Performing numerous solo recitals in South Africa and internationally, Tertia has also featured with various orchestras.

Tertia regularly gets invited as an official accompanist at national music competitions and regularly accompanies talented and award winning musicians at various events and concerts.  She was one of the official accompanists at the UNISA International String Competition in 2010, accompanying Yura.

During 2009, she joined renowned poet Philip de Vos on a national tour to bring masterpieces Pictures at an exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky and Kinderscenen by Schumann to stage, radio and television. With diverse talent and creativity, in 2008 Tertia took the leading female role in Pieter Dirk-Uys’ play, Appassionata, and performed the Beethoven Sonata with the same name.

Tertia has produced five CDs of her own as well as establishing and managing her Tots in Tune program designed to introduce classical music to young toddlers.  She also released a fourth CD with well-known cellist Marian Lewin at the end of 2009.

She is a part time lecturer in piano at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town.

Programme:

Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano in D major, Op. 12 No. 1

Brahms: Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano in d minor, Op. 108

Kreisler: Praeludium & Allegro, Liebesleid, Liebesfreud

Tchaikovsky: Waltz-Scherzo

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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