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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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Ching-Yun Hu (piano recital)

Ching-Yun Hu (piano recital)
8 March 2011
Odeion
19:30

“This young woman brings with her the secret, the mystery, and the style. She has the suspense of Brendal, Perahia’s lyricism and Barenboim’s depth. Are we witnessing the birth of a new Martha Argerich?”

Chanoch Ron, Yediot Acharonot, Israel.

In Ching-Yun’s home country (Taiwan) and abroad, she has been given a title – “Taiwan’s Proud”. Referred to as “dazzling”, Ching-Yun captured the top prize at the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. Her memorable performances of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 and Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in the finale of this competition were broadcast live to 38 countries worldwide.

At the age of 14, Ching-Yun moved to the US to study at The Juilliard School. At 16 she won the silver medal at the Taipei International Piano Competition after which she collaborated with several orchestras, including the Aspen Concert Orchestra, New York Sinfonietta, Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and the World Festival Orchestra and appeared at major festivals in The Netherlands, Austria, the UK and the USA. As Taiwan’s major artist of her generation, she appeared with the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra in a concert for 10 000 people as a memorial for the 921 Earthquake Anniversary. Concert appearances have also taken her to prestigious venues such as the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Salle Cortot, Osaka Hall and various other major concert halls around the world.

Her numerous other international competition accolades include several gold medals and first prizes: at the World Piano Competition (Cincinnati), Olga Koussevitzky International Piano Competition, Seiler International Piano Competition (New York) and the California International Piano Competition. Her performances have been aired by several international radio and television stations. The most recent addition to her long list of international awards is being awarded the First Prize in the 2009 Concert Artists Guild International Competition securing her a Carnegie Hall recital.

Programme:
Beethoven – Sonata in C major, Op. 35 (“Waldstein”)
Schumann – Fantasie, Op. 17
Schubert/Liszt – Song Transcriptions
Liszt – Concert Etude “La Leggierezza”
Liszt – Spanish Rhapsody

Admission:
R120 (adults)
R80 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk, the Waterfront Mall) and at the doors.

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

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