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Jeanne-Louise & Grethe In Concert
2018-02-15

JEANNE-LOUISE & GRETHE IN CONCERT

15 February 2018

Odeion

19:30

Violist Jeanne-Louise Moolman and pianist Grethe Nöthling presents this exciting, diverse and challenging programme of works by Brahms, Hofmeyr and Clarke.

Jeanne-Louise was appointed as violist of the Odeion String Quartet and senior lecturer at the OSM in 2008. She studied at the University of Pretoria under Prof Alan Solomon, where she obtained the BMus and BMusHons degrees with distinction. She subsequently also studied in Salzburg under Thomas Riebl. She won, among others, the ATKV Forté and Oude Meester competitions and in 1985 she was the first winner of the University of Natal 75th Anniversary Prize. She is an experienced musician who regularly performs with some of our country’s foremost musicians in various chamber music combinations. Other musicians with whom she has performed, include the violists Gérard Korsten, Philippe Graffin, the pianists Leslie Howard and Albie van Schalkwyk, and the clarinettist Robert Pickup. Jeanne-Louise has given numerous solo performances in South Africa and in Zimbabwe. As soloist, she has performed with various orchestras in the country, among them the KZNPO (Durban), the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa (Pretoria), NAPOP (Pretoria) and the Free State Symphony Orchestra (Bloemfontein). Jeanne-Louise has had more than twenty years of experience as principal violist of several professional orchestras in Gauteng and the Free State.

Grethe made her musical debut performing as soloist with the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra. She won several national music competitions, awards and bursaries including the Sanlam Music Competition (1994), ABSA National Music Competition (Piano Category, 1998), ATKV Prelude Competition (2000), Hennie Joubert National Piano Competition (2000), Lionel Bowman Beethoven Competition (2001) and UNISA Overseas Scholarship for Teachers (2003). She has been a soloist with major orchestras in the country between 1989 and 2005 including the Cape Town Philharmonic, KZNPO and the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa. Grethe is an avid chamber musician and has performed with guest artists and faculty members of the University of Iowa, including Nicole Esposito, Anthony Arnone, Melissa Kraut, Larry Stomberg and Sarah Frisof. She completed a BMus degree (cum laude) at the University of Pretoria under Ella Fourie and Joseph Stanford. In 2006 she continued her studies abroad and completed her MMus at the Cleveland Institute of Music (2008) and DMus (2014) at the University of Iowa (US). Her teachers included Daniel Shapiro (CIM), Paul Schenly (CIM) and Uriel Tsachor (UIowa). During her studies at the University of Iowa she was appointed as teaching assistant for three years. In 2015 she returned to South Africa and in 2016 she was appointed as principal piano lecturer at the OSM.

PROGRAMME:

  • Brahms: Sonata in F major, Op. 120 No. 2
  • Hendrik Hofmeyr: Viola Sonata
  • Rebecca Clarke: Sonata for viola and piano

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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Ben Schoeman – piano recital
 
Ben Schoeman

16 April 2011
Odeion
19:30

Ben Schoeman is one of South Africa’s foremost pianists and the winner of the 2011 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music. In 2008 he became the first South African in history to win the first grand prize in the 11th UNISA Vodacom International Piano Competition in Pretoria. In 2009 he also won the coveted gold medal and first prize in the Royal Overseas League Music Competition in London.
 
He regularly performs concertos with the leading South African symphony orchestras and gives solo and chamber music recitals throughout South Africa. His recent nationwide tour of 23 concerts received rave reviews and he was praised for his “dazzling virtuosity” (Pretoria News) as well as his “magical music-making” (Classic Feel Magazine). His performance with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra of Brahms’s Piano Concerto no. 2 was described as “powerful…with enormous musical insight and pianistic ability” (Die Burger).
 
Ben Schoeman gave performances across Europe, Canada and the United Kingdom. He played in prestigious concert halls, such as the Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), the Grande Auditorio of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), the Romanian Atheneum (Bucharest), the Teatro del Giglio (Lucca), the Paleis Het Loo (the Netherlands), Schloss Moritzburg (Dresden) and the Konzerthaus (Berlin). He also gave recitals at various international festivals, among others the Chester, King’s Lynn and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals (United Kingdom), the Festival da Bach a Bartók and the Festival Pianistico “Mario Ghislandi” (Italy), the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival (Canada) and the Crans-Montana Semaines Musicales (Switzerland).
 
He obtained a Masters in Performing Arts (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria, as well as a Master Diploma from the Accademia Pianistica ‘Incontri col Maestro’ in Imola, Italy. He is currently undertaking a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at City University of London and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has studied with well-known musicians, including Joseph Stanford, Michel Dalberto, Louis Lortie, Boris Petrushansky and Ronan O’Hora.
 
In 2008 he received the prestigious Laureate Award from the University of Pretoria Alumni Association for his achievements as well as his contribution to music in South Africa. Salon Music and UNISA recently launched his DVD-recording of concertos by Mozart and Tchaikovsky. His solo album with works of Franz Liszt (sponsored by Standard Bank) is set for release in April 2011 under the TwoPianists label.
 
PROGRAM: Works by Franz Liszt (1811-1886):
Variations on a theme from JS Bach's Cantata no. 12, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, S.180
Ave Maria, die Glocken von Rom (für die große Klavierschule von Lebert und Stark), S. 182
Les Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este, From Années de Pèlerinage, Troisième Année, S. 163
Venezia e Napoli, S. 162 (Gondoliera, Canzone, Tarantella)
Sonata in B minor, S. 178
 
ADMISSION:
R120 (adults)
R80 (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. +27 (0)51 401 2504)

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