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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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FSSO Symphony concert: Soloist: Mark Uys (Violin)

Mark Uys

Bernhard Gueller

FSSO Symphony concert
Thursday 29 July 2010
Odeion
19:30

Soloist: Mark Uys (Violin)
Conductor: Bernhard Gueller

The UFS Department of Music and the Free State Symphony Orchestra have decided to collaborate in presenting combined concert series. This is a result of a need for better co-ordination of solo-, ensemble- and orchestral activities. Therefore the new name: Muzik@UFS. A series will consist of four to five concerts which will normally be presented on Thursdays. The first concert season of 2010 will consist of 5 concerts.

Marc Uys was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, where he had his first violin lessons at the age of four. He holds a Master of Music degree, from the University of Cape Town, with distinction.
From 2002 – 2006, Marc was the first violinist and manager of the Sontonga Quartet. This group worked extensively with composers from Kevin Volans to Terry Riley and Osvaldo Golijov, championing many new works in South Africa and abroad, with performances in venues such as the Victoria National Gallery in Melbourne, Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Barbican in London and Lincoln Center, New York. Solo work includes collaboration with harpist Jacqueline Kerrod in New York, chamber music performances and coaching at the "Stiftfestival 2007" in Holland, as well as performances throughout South Africa. Marc plays a fine 18th century Italian instrument on generous loan from the Lindbergh Arts Foundation and a 2004 "peanut" violin by Oleg Alexeyev.

Bernhard Gueller is principal guest conductor of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and has been music director of Symphony Nova Scotia since 2002.

Well known to audiences internationally for the passion, mastery and drama he brings to the concert hall podium, Gueller is also acclaimed for his “profound interpretations”, the “stunning responses he gets from musicians” and the excitement he elicits. He is celebrated by musicians, critics and audience for his musical purity and continually garners praise for the fresh approach he brings to the podium.

His career has taken him to many top concert halls from America and Australia to Russia, Japan, China, Korea, South Africa and Brazil, as well as countries in Europe such as Spain, Italy, France, Norway and Sweden and his native Germany. He has served as music director and principal conductor with various orchestras, including the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, a position he relinquished last year.

Admission
R120 (adults) per concert
R80 (pensioners, students and learners) per concert

Tickets @ Computicket (Shoprite / Checkers, Mimosa Mall, Izami Bloemiste)
Book online at www.computicket.com  

Season tickets:
Only R360 for the whole season - a massive discount of up to R240!

Enquiries:
Ella Kotze (FSSO), tel. 051 – 401 2342 (8:00 – 13:00)
www.fsso.org.za  
 

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