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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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Free State Youth Orchestra conducted by Alexander Fokkens

Soloist:                Eljee du Plooy (organ)

Date:                    Thursday 24 April 2014

Venue:                 Odeion

Time:                    19:30

The Free State Youth Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Fokkens will give a free performance in the Odeion on Thursday 24 April. The FSYO compromises of students from the Odeion School of Music, students from the University of the Free State as well as learners of the highest level on all instruments from the High Schools in the Free State province. Many of the members this year are from the very successful Mangaung String Program under Peter Guy.

One of the main objectives are to create a seamless path in music education; working within their school programs, complimented by training and exposure to a high level youth orchestra that utilises the students at the OSM and UFS, leading them to continue their musical training at the Odeion School of Music and University of the Free State and ultimately giving them the potential to play in the Free State Symphony Orchestra (FSSO).

Alex Fokkens (Artistic director of the FSSO) is the principal conductor of the FYO. Weekly rehearsal are conducted by Anmari van der Westhuizen but there are also regular sectional rehearsals which are led by members of the Odeion String Quartet (for string players), Danré Strydom for the woodwinds and George Foster for the brass instruments.

The programme for 24 April will consist of the Symphony No. 104 “London” (Haydn), Three Cornered Hat Suite (De Falla) and the Symphony No. 1 “Organ Symphony” (Guilmant) with Eljee du Plooy as the organ soloist.

Eljee du Plooy received a bursary for post-graduate studies in 2012 in the final round of the SAKOV organ competition. In 2013 he won the organ category prize of the ATKV Musiq Competition and another bursary from SAKOV. He completed his MMus degree cum laude in 2013 and was awarded the Fanie Beetge Prize for best post-graduate student. Eljee is currently organist of the NG  Gemeente Hospitaalpark.

Admission: Free

Enquiries:

Ella Kotze (FSSO), tel. (051) 401-2342 (08:00 – 13:00)

www.fsso.org.za

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