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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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UFS Department of Music presents - Russian soprano EVGENIA GREKOVA and IRINA PURYSHINSKAJA (piano)



UFS Department of Music presents
Russian soprano EVGENIA GREKOVA and IRINA PURYSHINSKAJA (piano)
Thursday, 27 August 2009
Odeion
19:30

The Russian soprano Evgenia Grekova, born in Kurgan, visited South Africa for the first time in 2006 to compete in the Unisa Vodacom International Singing Competition in Pretoria. She won the concert category and four prizes in total.

Grekova studied music in Moscow and Karlsruhe in Germany, and attended master classes by some of the world"s most famous singers, including Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Edith Mathis, Mirella Freni and Marilyn Horne.

While still a student she made her professional debut with the Stuttgart State Opera. In 2001 she joined the ensemble of the Nürnberg Opera for four years, and built a substantial repertoire in German opera houses, including operas by Bizet, Gluck, Humperdinck, Mozart, Nicolai, Offenbach, Nino Rota and Richard Strauss.

It was during this period, in 2002, that she was invited to make her debut in two Wagner roles (in The Ring and in Tannhauser) at the Bayreuth Festival, which prompted the Neue Zürcher Zeitung to praise her performance as “the vocal miracle of the evening”.

From 2001 she entered several international competitions and won numerous prizes – most recently in the Bido Sayao Competition in Sao Paulo (2009).

She has already sung under the direction of well-known conductors such as Philippe Auguin, Adam Fischer, Antonio Pappano, Helmuth Rilling, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Christian Thielemann. Grekova appeared in concert with top European orchestras, including the WD Rundfunk- and SW Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Nürnberger Symphoniker and the Bayrische Kammerorchester.

As a concert artist she was invited to the Richard Strauss Lieder Festival, and was immediately hailed by the press: “An important singer has arrived, in concert and opera.”

With this concert Evgenia will be accompanied by renowned solo and chamber pianist, Irina Puryshinskaja. After her studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and in Germany, Irina gave several solo and chamber music concerts in Germany, Munich, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and China. In 1996 she received a special prize as best Lied pianist at the XII International Robert Schumann Competition (Zwickau) and also took several prizes in other international competitions. Irina has been professor of piano at the Conservatory of Vorarlberg (Austria) since 2000. She is currently professor in piano at the Landeskonservatorium Feldkirch (Austria).

PROGRAMME:
RICHARD STRAUSS
Stänchen
Traum durch die Dämmerung
Die Nacht
Hat gesagt – bleibt’s nicht dabei
Meinem Kinder
Schlechtes Wetter
Morgen!

LEONARD BERNSTEIN
“I hate music!”

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Suleika 1
Der Fluss
Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Gretchen am Spinnrade
Nach und Träume
Im Abendrot

SERGEI RACHMANINOV
U moego okna
Ne poj krasawitza pri mne
Siren’
Vocalise
Sdes horosho
Wesennie wody

ADMISSION:
R100 (adults)
R60 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk) and at the doors.

ENQUIRIES:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 - 401 2504)




 

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