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2018-08-18

Presented by the FSSO in collaboration with the OSM

Conductor: Daniel Boico
Soloist: Alissa Margulis (violin)

Saturday, 18 August 2018
Odeion
19:30

The Free State Symphony Orchestra and the OSM invites you to the third symphony concert of the year featuring international guests Daniel Boico (conductor) and the graceful Alissa Margulis (violinist). The long-awaited symphony will take place August 18, 2018 at 19:30 in the Odeion. This concert is presented in collaboration with the Odeion School of Music.

Due to circumstances beyond control, the promised Violin Concerto in D minor by Beethoven was replaced by the gloriously lyrical Violin Concerto in G minor by Bruch. The powerful and dramatic Egmont Overture by Beethoven and Schubert’s Symphony No 6 in C, will round off the programme.

Daniel Boico was born in Israel to musician parents and raised in both Paris and the US, as his father Fima Boico, was concertmaster of Orchestra de Paris and the second violinist of the Fine Arts Quartet. Boico was initially trained as a singer before joining the class of legendary Russian conducting professor Ilya Musin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Russia. He has extensive experience in music administration, planning and programming, having worked as Manager of Artistic Administration of the New York Philharmonic and as executive assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Chicago Symphony and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as well as for Chicago Symphony.

Alissa Margulis was born in Freiburg (Germany), into a family of Russian musicians. At the age of four, she started to learn the violin and the piano with Prof. Wolfgang Marschner. She made her first public appearance at the age of seven with the Budapest Soloists. At the age of ten, she won the first prize at the Spohr Youth Competition and at the German national competition Jugend Musiziert within the same year. She is a regular guest at international classical music festivals, and a privileged chamber music player who performs with a Guadagnini Violin dated 1754, a private loan from Jonathan Moulds.

Alissa is an accomplished musician with numerous awards like the Pro Europa Prize awarded by Daniel Barenboim (Berlin, 2002) and the Nouveau Laureat du Festival Juventus (Cambrai, 2004).


Tickets are available from Computicket outlets and online:

  • R150 Adults
  • R100 Pensioners, UFS staff and block bookings of 10 and more people
  • R50 Children 3 to 18 years

ENQUIRIES:

Contact Ninette Pretorius (051 401 2504) or Ella Kotze (051 401 2342).

www.fsso.org.za / www.facebook.com/OdeionSchoolofMusic


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Fun & games for violin and piano

FUN & GAMES for violin and piano with Piet Koornhof & Tinus Botha

26 October 2017

Odeion

19:30

Two celebrated South African musicians – violinist Piet Koornhof and pianist Tinus Botha – have put together a programme of exciting and exhilarating works for violin and piano. From there the name “Fun & Games”. Concertgoers will be treated to a feast of music from Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile” to Saint-Saëns’ “Dance Macabre” and De Valla’s “Ritual Fire Dance”. Piet and Tinus are both top notch lecturers at the NWU School of Music in Potchefstroom.

A comical reflection on the artists!

Piet Koornhof plays the violin and tries mostly in vain to teach others at North-West University in Potchefstroom. He has been doing it for so long that his left shoulder is higher than the other one and his face carries a permanent grimace. He was fortunate to study with one of the greatest violin teachers in history, Professor Dorothy DeLay, at the Juilliard School in New York (USA), but as a confused teenager he learned much less than he should have. His great musical love is for chamber music, which he often plays with colleagues locally, and sometimes with friends overseas. He is pathologically obsessed with gliding and reading, even though he hardly ever has time for it. He greatly enjoys playing squash with his sons, mostly on the losing side. Oh, yes, he has a DMus degree in musical performance from the institution where he serves as associate professor.

Tinus plays the piano, sometimes rather nicely, if he has to say so himself. He is one of Piet’s dearest colleagues at the North-West University, where he endeavors towards all sorts of noble pursuits. Tinus studied in America (in spite of horrifying exchange rates), where he tried the patience of Jerome Lowenthal, José Feghali, and Harold Martina. After his triumphant return to the Republic, he perpetrated a range of concerts, and completed a DMus degree at the University of Pretoria with superhuman effort. Tinus’ hobbies include gardening, even though his lawn is not currently the lush feast for the eye that he had envisioned. He is planning a duo concert with his little yorkie, Giepie, who enjoys singing with piano accompaniment. He is a rabid proponent of the Oxford comma, and a stalwart in the struggle against abuse of the apostrophe.

ADMISSION

  • R110 (adults)
  • *R70 (pensioners)
  • *R60 (UFS staff)
  • *R40 (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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