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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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OSM Opening Concert 2014

Thursday, 27 March 2014

ODEION

19:30

On 27 March 2014 the Odeion School of Music will present its annual Opening Concert. 

During the first half of the programme top students and lecturers of the OSM (Danrè Strydom, Luzanne Eigelaar, Lesley-Ann Mathews and Heinrich Lategan) will perform, followed by the OSM Camerata (OSMC) performing together with OSM vocal students under tutolage of Peet van Heerden and members of the Odeion Choir (Lance Phillip) in the second half.  The OSMC will be conducted by Xavier Cloete.  In this programme two short excerpts from Idomineo (Mozart) and Fidelio (Beethoven) as well as Valse triste by Sibelius will be performed.  OSM MMus student Werner Stander will be serving as assistant conductor for Xavier Cloete. 

In 2011 Xavier Cloete completed a BMus degree at the University of Stellenbosch with bassoon and orchestral conducting as main instruments. He is currently employed by the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (KZNPO) as the assistant conductor for the KZNPO Youth Orchestra.  In 2013 he won the second National Len van Zyl Conductor's Competition.  After winning this competition, he was selected as one of the top 200 successful young people in South Africa, and appeared in the national Mail and Guardian newspaper during March 2013.

As the winner of the competition, Xavier completed a conducting internship with the famous Philadelphia Orchestra which gave him the opportunity to work with acclaimed conductors such as Christoph von Donyani, Andre Bureko as well as Yannick Nezet-Seguin.  He then studied conducting at the Bienen School of Music (Northwestern University) in the Advanced Graduate Conducting Class of Prof Victor Yampolski.

Xavier was invited to attend the first Sasha Mäkilä International Master Classes (Finland) during January 2013 where he conducted the St Michel's City Orchestra.  He will be making his international debut with the St Michel's City Orchestra (Finland) during April 2014.

The OSMC participated in 2013 in the 13th International Conservatoire Festival which was hosted at the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatoire in St Petersburg (Russia) where they received a standing ovation during their gala performance in the Glazonov Hall.  In 2013 the OSMC performed during the CD recording of Cello for Africa (Cello Concerto for an African Cellist by Hans Huyssen) with SA cellist Heleen Du Plessis.  The CD was internationally released on the New Zealand label for Classical Music ODE records. In March 2014 this CD was nominated for the The Violoncello Foundation - 2nd Listeners' Choice Award in NY.

ADMISSION:

R110 (adults), R70 (pensioners), R60 (UFS staff), R40 (students & learners), R40 (block booking of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket

PLEASE NOTE: ALL UFS STAFF QUALIFY FOR A DISCOUNT FOR THIS EVENT!! CONTACT NINETTE PRETORIUS  (PretoriusN@ufs.ac.za) FOR MORE INFORMATION AT X2504

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