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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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Harmonic Brass Munich

German brass quintet back in Bloemfontein by popular demand!

2 March 2016

Odeion

19:30

 

Description: Munich Brass Tags: Munich Brass“From the first note to the last, this was a fun, inspiring, engaging and quite simply brilliant concert.” 

(Gareth Harvey, What’s on in Cape Town)

 

After the five gentlemen of Harmonic Brass Munich’s visits to Bloemfontein in 2012 and 2014, concertgoers could not stop talking about the extraordinary and highly entertaining concerts they have been treated with.  The OSM could not let the chance go by to invite them to Bloemfontein with their next SA tour. 

 

Since 1991, the Harmonic Brass Munich has been renowned for its big, elegant brass sound.  Carnegie Hall (New York), Arts Center (Seoul), Leipzig Gewandhaus: the five gentlemen are welcomed and feel at home everywhere in the world. Harmonic Brass travels around the globe playing around 120 concerts a year with different programmes.  An ensemble that spreads good humor: meticulous filing at their performances combined with baroque joie de vivre and serious musical works alternating with giggling boyishness. Five individuals, who couldn't be more unique, melt into a remarkable unity on stage.  Harmonic Brass is supported by an incredibly large number of fans.  Representing the Goethe Institute, Harmonic Brass has been a cultural ambassador all over the world since 2000 and the musicians from Munich also present numerous international workshops.  Anyone who has been to a Harmonic Brass concert knows what the Süddeutsche Zeitung means when writing about an ensemble that "… with its glamorous-virtuous way of performing is one of the best of its kind worldwide."

 

The members of the group have changed since their last visit.  Gergely Lukács has left the group and a lady, Elisabeth Fessler, has succeeded him.

 

Hans Zellner (trumpet) studied with Prof Lachenmaier, Rolf Quinque and Wolfgang Guggenberger at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich as well as the Hochschule für Musik und Theater (also in Munich).

 

Elisabeth Fessler (trumpet) studied with Prof Wolfgang Guggenberger at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen and joined Harmonic Brass Munich in 2014.

 

Andreas Binder (French horn) studied with Prof Siegfried Hammer and Prof Wolfgang Gaag at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater. 

 

Thomas Lux (trombone) studied with Prof. Paul Schreckenberger at the Staatl. Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim. 

 

Manfred Häberlein (tuba) studied at the Meistersinger-Conservatory in Nürnberg and with Tom Walsh at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich.

 

Programme:

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741): Concerto in C

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): If you are with me (BWV 508)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (BWV 1047) - Allegro assai

Frederick Loewe (1901 - 1988): My Fair Lady

Michael Jackson (1958 - 2009): Black or White

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Triumphmarsch from “Aida”

Arr.: Hans Zellner (*1968): Africa

Leroy Anderson (1908 - 1975): Buglers Holiday

Arr.: Hans Zellner (*1968): A Tribute to Louis Armstrong           

   (all arrangements by Hans Zellner)

 

Admission:

R130 (adults)

R90 (pensioners, students and learners)

R70 (UFS staff)

R50 (group bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket.

 

Enquiries:   

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 – 401 2504)

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