Years
2019 2018
Symphony Concert
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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Liesl & Albie in Concert - Flute recital

10 May 2018

Odeion

19:30

Liesl Stoltz studied at the University of Stellenbosch after which she studied in France and Italy where she obtained diplomas with distinction. She numbers among her teachers Éva Tamássy, Shigenori Kudo, Pierre-Yves Artaud and Peter-Lukas Graf and has won numerous prizes in national and international competitions in Romania and Germany. She has appeared as soloist with the Cape Town, Eastern Cape and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Free State Symphony Orchestra and with the UCT String Ensemble, Camerata Tinta Barocca and Odeion Sinfonia. In June 2010 she obtained the degree DMus from UCT. At present she performs extensively as soloist and chamber musician in South Africa and teaches privately and at the South African College of Music (University of Cape Town).

Albie van Schalkwyk is not only a solo performer in his own right, but is also one of the leading chamber musicians and vocal accompanists in South Africa. In his distinguished career he won both the UNISA Overseas Scholarship and first prize in the SABC Piano Competition. Besides performing as a piano soloist and with orchestras, he has given masterclasses for singers and accompanists and served as music producer and official accompanist for the SABC. In 2009 he was appointed Associate Professor in Piano and Chamber Music at the College of Music, University of Cape Town. In the same year the South African Academy of Arts and Science awarded him the Huberte Rupert Prize for his contribution to ensemble playing and teaching. He has also been a member of several well-known SA ensembles, notably the Songmakers Guild which gives younger performers opportunities to appear in song recitals.

www.lieslstoltz.co.za

www.sacm.uct.ac.za/sacm/staff/fulltime/assocProfessors/AlbieVanSchalkwyk

Programme

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Sonata, Op. 50
  • Gabriel Fauré: Fantasy, Op. 97
  • Georges Enescu: Cantabile et Presto
  • Bohuslav Jan Martinu: Sonata
  • Benjamin Godard: Suite de trois Morceaux, Op. 116
  • Frank Martin: Ballade
  • Robert Muczynski: Sonata, Op. 14

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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