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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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Free State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernhard Gueller

Soloist             :           Ockie Vermeulen (organ)

Dates               :           Thursday 13 August

Venue             :           Odeion

Time                :           19:30

 

Music lovers will get the opportunity to listen to two of the most famous works for organ and orchestra during the next concert of the Free State Symphony Orchestra. The Pretoria based organist Ockie Vermeulen will be the soloist in Albinoni’s famous Adagio in G minor as well as Poulenc’s Organ Concerto in G minor. Also on the programme are Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 and Arvo Pärt’s Fratres. The internationally acclaimed conductor Bernhard Gueller will be on the podium. This concert is made possible by a grants from the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) and the Rupert Foundation.

 

Albinoni’s Adagio has been used in several film soundtracks, including Gallipoli and Rollerball and it was also performed at the funeral of Lady Diana, Princess of Wales. Fratres, in its many reincarnations has also appeared soundtracks, most notably There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.

 

Ockie Vermeulen is an active concert organist and music arranger. In 2011 he was invited to perform in Monaco where he played for as service which was attended by Prince Albert and Princess Charlene and also gave a solo recital. His debut CD, Highland Cathedral has been met with critical acclaim and has been topping the South African charts for 50 consecutive weeks. In November 2010 he released his second CD Arena on which he collaborated with musicians such as Christa Steyn, Wessel van Wyk, Charl du Plessis and Helen Vosloo.

 

For the last 13 years music director of Symphony Nova Scotia in Halifax, Canada, Bernhard Gueller continues to enthral audiences with his profound and exciting interpretations. 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 loved by musicians, critics and audience for his musical purity and continually garners praise for the fresh approach he brings to the podium. This is maestro Gueller’s third visit to Bloemfontein and the Free State Symphony Orchestra.

 

Tickets for the concert in the Odeion are available from Computicket outlets or book online at www.computicket.com.

 

Admission:

R130 (adults)

R100 (pensioners)

R50 (students/learners/group bookings of 10+)

 

Enquiries:

Ella Kotze (FSSO), tel. (051) 401-2342 (office hours)

www.fsso.org.za

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