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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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The Art of Romanticism

Samson Diamond & Laura Pauna in concert

19 November 2015

Odeion

19:30

 

Samson Diamond – concert master of the FSSO and leader of the Odeion String Quartet - performs with pianist Laura Pauna in an exciting programme titled The Art of Romanticism with works by Khachaturian, Ysaÿa, Lekeu, Ravel and Strauss. 

 

Samson is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK), where he obtained his BMusHons degree First Class (2006) and MMus performance degree with distinction (2007). He got his first taste of music in Soweto where he studied with founder director of Buskaid, Rosemary Nalden and further on with Richard Ireland, Pauline Nobes and Philippe Graffin. Samson won numerous prizes including the 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist for Music, the Charles Hallé Award, the RNCM Eric Nicholson Bow Prize, the RNCM Major Entrance Award, Edward Heaton Scholarshp, the RNCM Philip Newman Violin Prize, and appeared in the 2010 publication of Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans: Arts and Culture.

 

As a freelance orchestral player in the UK, he played in the Hallé Orchestra, the Academy of St Martins in the Fields, BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata, and the Academy of Ancient Music. Diamond was leader of the internationally acclaimed Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble from its inception in 1997.   Samson has performed before many distinguished guests including Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. In 2009, he performed privately for Mr Nelson Mandela under the invitation of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. He has received quartet masterclasses from internationally acclaimed chamber musicians such as Andras Keller, Johannes Meissl, Christoph Richter, Seppo Kimanen, Roger Tapping, Vladimir Mendelssohn, members of the Endellion String Quartet and The New Zealand String Quartet.  He plays a fine 1803 Wagner violin.

 

South African/Romanian pianist Laura Pauna has established herself internationally as soloist and chamber musician. She was awarded a Master’s in Performance Diploma from the prestigious Hannover Music Conservatoire (Germany). In Germany she studied under Prof Einar–Steen Nokleberg and the Silver Garburg Duo.

 

As duo pianist she has performed at many prestigious venues.  Carnegie Hall have had rave reviews ("...lavish, enthusiastic, brilliant"); Laura has also performed  at the Salzburg Grosse Saal, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Jerusalem Theatre, Yasi (New York), Zagreb Institute Hall, Z.K. Matthews Hall, Cape Town City Hall, to name a few.

 

Competition prizes and scholarships include 1st Prize in the Grieg Competition, "Prix de Oslo" in 2007 and again in 2009. IBLA Grand Prize winner (2006), Valentino Bucchi (Rome, 2006), and the Mozarteum Prize in 2007.

 

Laura is also the recipient of the National Arts Council scholarship 2009, Ottilie-Selbach Stiftung (Berlin, Germany), and the Oscar und Vera Ritter Stiftung (Germany).   She has performed with orchestras such as Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, Cape Town Philharmonic, KZNPO, Pro Musica et al, and at series such as the Piano Fortissimo series (Croatia), Piano Duo Festival Bad Herrenalb, Oslo Grieg Festival, UNISA Concert Series, and the Johannesburg Music Society concert series. Laura had her solo debut in 2011 at the Bucharest Music & Film Festival.

 

Programme

Khachaturian: (1961) Andante from piano solo sonata

Lekeu: Sonata for violin in G

Ravel: Tzigane

Ysaye: Sonata No.3 for solo violin Op. 27 in D minor “Ballade”

Strauss: Sonata for violin in E flat major Op. 18

 

Admission

R110 (adults), R70 (pensioners), R60 (UFS staff), R40 (students and learners), R40 (group bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket.

 

Enquiries

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

 

 

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