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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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UFS Department of Music presents Special Project Concerts I & II Odeion String Quartet – Hooked on Haydn

UFS Department of Music presents Special Project Concerts I & II
Odeion String Quartet – Hooked on Haydn
17 & 24 May 2009
Odeion
16:00



The Odeion String Quartet, established in 1991, is the only residential string quartet at a SA university. The quartet has recently undergone a total metamorphosis and now boasts with new members Denise Sutton (first violinist), Sharon de Kock (second violinist), Jeanne-Louise Moolman (violist) and Anmari van der Westhuizen (cellist). The quartet had its official launch on 6 November 2008.

The Department of Music is presenting two Special Project Concerts with the Odeion String Quartet, named “Hooked on Haydn”. These concerts are specially held in commemoration of the bicentenary of the death of the composer. In the first concert (17 May, 16:00), the ensemble will perform two string quartets from the six Op. 76 string quartets (nos. 1 & 3). With the second concert on 24 May (16:00) nos. 2 & 4 from Op. 76 will be performed.

Denise Sutton was concert master of the PACT orchestra, leader and founder member of the Rosamunde String Quartet, as well as member of the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa (COSA). She played in two international chamber orchestras: the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra. Denise had a part-time teaching practice at the University of Pretoria (UP) and at a number of schools.

After her music studies at the University of Cincinnati, Sharon de Kock lectured at two universities, the music conservatory in Mexico and at a music school in Costa Rica before returning to South Africa in 2007. She has played in three international symphony orchestras (in Peru, Costa Rica, USA).

Jeanne-Louise Moolman has performed as principal violist in several professional orchestras in Gauteng and was leader of the viola section of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) and COSA. She was also a founder member of the Rosamunde String Quartet and lectured at the University of Pretoria and the Pro-Arte music school.

Anmari van der Westhuizen studied at the University of Stellenbosch, at the Mozarteum (Salzburg) and at the Hochschule für Musik (Köln). She has been the conductor and director of the UCT String Ensemble since 1999, and spent eight years (1988 – 1996) as soloist and chamber musician in Europe.

Admission:
R50 (adults)
R30 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (Shoprite/Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall Information desk, online at www.computicket.com ) or at the doors. Telephonic bookings: 011 – 340 8000 or 083 915 8000.

Enquiries:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 - 401 2504)  

 

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