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Anmari & Albie in concert
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Anmari & Albie in concert

22 February 2018

Odeion

19:30

Anmari van der Westhuizen is Adjunct Professor and Head of the Odeion String Quartet at the UFS. She graduated from the University of Stellenbosch (BMusHons, cum laude), from the Mozarteum, Salzburg (Grosses Diplom, cum laude), and from the Hochschule für Musik (Cologne). She performed as a chamber musician and soloist in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Faroe Islands, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In 2015 she received the Vryfees award for the Best Classical performer of the Arts Festival and the Rose award from Radio Rosestad for her remarkable contribution towards arts and culture.

Albie van Schalkwyk is not only a solo performer in his own right, but is also one of the leading chamber musicians and vocal accompanists in South Africa. Besides performing as a piano soloist and with orchestras, he has given masterclasses for singers and accompanists. In 2009 he was appointed Associate Professor in piano and chamber music at the South African College of Music (University of Cape Town).

Programme:

  • Shostakovich: Sonata for violoncello and piano, Op. 40 (1934)
  • Tribute to Gaspar Cassadó (1897 - 1966):
    • a) Toccata: Frescobaldi - Cassadó
    • b) Intermezzo from the opera Goyescas: Granados - Cassadó
    • c) Pastorale: Couperin - Cassadó
    • d) Solo suite for cello: Prelude- Fantasia: Cassadó
    • e) Requiebros: Cassadó
  • Brahms: Sonata for violoncello and piano, Op. 99

Admission

  • R120 (adults)
  • *R80 (pensioners)
  • *R70 (UFS staff)
  • *R50 (students, learners and block bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket or online at http://online.computicket.com/web/

*Please note that tickets for pensioners, students, learners and UFS staff can only be purchased at a Computicket outlet (Shoprite Checkers) or at the doors since a valid card or ID has to be presented to qualify for the above mentioned discount.

Enquiries

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)


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ANDREY PISAREV piano recital

Friday, 14 November 2014

ODEION

19:30

 

In 1991, in the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, a young Russian pianist won the Grand Prize - which was the first time since 1956 that the Grand Prize had been awarded in this competition. It was won by Andrey Pisarev.  In 2006 the reviewer Gunilla Boström wrote in the Swedish newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad: “In April 2004 I believed that Andrey Pisarev was the best pianist I have ever heard, and this opinion remains after his recital… The expression “World pianist” is not an exaggeration regarding him… “

 

Besides the Mozart Competition, Andrey Pisarev won 1st prize in the Rachmaninoff Piano Competition (Moscow, 1983) as well as 1st Prize in the UNISA TRANSNET International Piano Competition (1992).  The German newspaper Westdeutsche Algemeine Zeitung wrote about Andrey: “His performance cannot be forgotten. …The pianist presented such impressive music that is rarely heard.”

 

He began his musical education at the age of seven. In 1978 he moved to Moscow to study at the Music School and then at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. He graduated in 1987 and received his MMus degree in 1989.

 

Andrey has already performed in of the most prestigious concert halls of the world and with the world’s best symphony orchestras such as the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, RAI Orchestra Milan, Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Both solo recitals and concerts with the orchestras were acclaimed by audience and critics in the USA, South and Central America, Europe, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, besides all Russia. Critics wrote after his solo recital at one of Europe’s most prestigious concert halls (Gewandhaus, Leipzig): "… his thoroughly unquestionable and irreprehensible technical accomplishment and imaginative interpretations, which amply tell the story of the brilliant Lisztian piano in its epic moments, or that of Schumannesque intimist in the idyllic ones. His playing is remarkable for its composure as for its complete pianistic command. The faultless proportions, the air of rapt simplicity, the perfect sense of balance and phrase were often breathtaking."

 
Pisarev is professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory and has held masterclasses in Japan, the USA, Yugoslavia, France and Brazil, to name but a few.

 

PROGRAMME

Mozart: Fantasie in D minor, K.397
Beethoven: Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Schumann: Novelette No 8 in F-sharp minor, Op. 21

Chopin: Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1

Chopin: 4 Scherzi

 

OSM INTERNATIONAL MASTERCLASS SERIES 2014

The OSM, in collaboration with ClassicSA, presents masterclasses with Andrey on Thursday afternoon, 13 November (14:00 – 18:00).  For enquiries or is you are interested in taking part, contact Ninette Pretorius (051 401 2504 / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za)

 

ADMISSION

R130 (adults)

R90 (pensioners)

R70 (UFS staff)

R50 (students and learners)

R50 (group bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket.

 

ENQUIRIES

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 – 401 2504)

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