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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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Deon Lamprecht – Organ recital

Deon Lamprecht – Organ recital
Sunday, 11 October 2009
Odeion
16:00

Organ music lovers can book now for an exceptional performance by well-known organist, Deon Lamprecht, on Sunday, 11 October 2009.

Lamprecht studied at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein where he obtained a Teacher’s Diploma, Church Organist’s Diploma, and a B.Mus., B.Mus.Hons. (cum laude), Master’s and D.Phil. degrees. In 1974 he was appointed as lecturer at the UFS, promoted to senior lecturer in 1984 and to Professor in 1994. From 1994 till 2005 he was the Head of the Department of Music at the UFS.

Lamprecht was awarded the first prize in the organ competition during the Third South African Organ Festival in Cape Town in 1980. During the Music Prize Competition of the SABC, also in 1980, he was awarded the first prize in the organ category, as well as the SAMRO prize in the final round. He has appeared several times as organ soloist in works with orchestra by Handel, Haydn, Poulenc and Saint-Saëns and performs regularly in solo organ recitals. He frequently acts as adjudicator for organ, choir and music competitions. In 2005 he presented two organ recitals in British Columbia (Canada).

From 1978 till 1989 he was conductor of the Pro Ecclesia Choir, from 1990 till 1995 of the University Choir and since 1993 of the Alumni Chamber Choir. On several international tours, he conducted choir performances in Zimbabwe, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, England, France, The Netherlands, Egypt and Spain. He conducted several performances of Telemann’s St Matthew Passion, Bach’s St John’s and St Matthew Passions, The Messiah by Handel, and his choirs took part in performances of the Requiems by Verdi and Mozart, and The Elijah by Mendelssohn.

In 1993 he undertook a study tour focusing on organ and choral directing to Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany and presented a paper during the International Organ Festival in Oundle, England. He received master classes in organ from Ludger Lohmann (Germany), Julian Weir (England), Hans Fagius (Sweden), Harald Vogel (Germany), Jean-Claude Zehnder (Switzerland), Marie-Claire Alain (France) and Jacques van Oortmerssen (The Netherlands).

Programme:
J.S. Bach: Wir glauben all an einen Gott
N. Bruhns: Praeludium in G major
J.S. Bach: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele
J.S. Bach: Passacaglia in C minor
F. Mendelssohn: Sonata no. 5 in D major
A. Guilmant: March upon Lift up your heads by G.F. Handel
J. Alain : Litanies

Admission:
R50 (adults)
R30 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk) and at the doors.

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

 

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