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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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FSSO Symphony Concert - Free State Symphony Orchestra

Gérard Korsten

Denise Sutton

Jeanne-Louise Moolman

Free State Symphony Orchestra
Thursday 26 May 2011
Odeion
19:30

Programme:
Anton EBERL : Symphony in C
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART : Sinfonia Concertante
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN : Symphony No. 1

Gérard Korsten is regarded by many as the best conductor this country has ever produced. He took up his appointment as Music Director of the London Mozart Players in 2010. Over the next three years Gérard will be fully involved in the orchestra’s musical development. He will conduct all of its major UK concerts and will work with the orchestra to develop foreign touring as well as new project opportunities. Gérard is also Principal Conductor of the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg Bregenz.

Gérard Korsten’s recent engagements have included Le nozze di Figaro (La Scala, Milan) Ariadne auf Naxos & Hans Werner Henze’s L’Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (Lyon) Don Giovanni (Royal Opera, Stockholm) Cosi fan tutte (Teatro del Maggio Musicale, Florence & San Carlo, Naples) and concerts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders and Netherlands Radio Kamer Filharmonie.

Gérard Korsten conducts regularly in the Vienna Konzerthaus, Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1995 with Camerata Salzburg, and his Berlin Festival debut in 1998 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Forthcoming engagements include Cosi fan tutte and Albert Herring (Glyndebourne), La Veuve joyeuse & Siegfried (Lyon) Le nozze di Figaro (Gothenburg) and a debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. His recordings include the Tchaikovsky Serenade and Souvenir de Florence with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe for DGG, Don Pasquale for TDK, and Die ägyptische Helena, Euryanthe and Alfonso und Estrella and for Dynamic.

Denise Sutton has been leader of the Odeion String Quartet and Head of the Strings Department at the University of the Free State since 2008. She obtained a B.Mus cum laude at the University of Stellenbosch. An Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Scholarship enabled her to go to Amsterdam, where she studied with Theo Olof and Nap de Klijn, as well as London. She was leader of the second violins of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and successfully auditioned for the English Chamber Orchestra. With these orchestras she had the opportunity of touring the UK, France, Spain, Germany, the USA and Canada. On her return to South Africa, she was concertmaster of the PACT Orchestra for almost twenty years, and was also leader of the Transvaal Chamber Orchestra, Johannesburg Festival Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of South Africa (COSA). She has been a member of many chamber groups, notably the Rosamunde Quartet, of which she was leader and co-founder. Denise has appeared as soloist with various orchestras. She has extensive teaching experience and has taught many successful students who are working professionally here and abroad. She serves on the jury for competitions such as ARTSCAPE and the UNISA national string competition and is an examiner for UNISA, the University of Pretoria and North-West University.

Jeanne-Louise Moolman, violist, was appointed as a member of the Odeion String Quartet and senior lecturer in viola at the University of the Free State in 2008. Studied at the University of Pretoria under Prof. Alan Solomon where she obtained the B.Mus and B.Mus.Hons degrees with distinction. In Salzburg she studied under Thomas Riebl. She is an experienced chamber musician who regularly performs in various combinations with some of South Africa’s leading musicians. Jeanne-Louise was a founding member of the Rosamunde String Quartet. As soloist she has performed several concertos, including the Suite Hebraïque (Bloch), the Concerto in C mineur of JC Bach, Harold in Italy (Berlioz) and the Sinfonia Concertante (Mozart) with different orchestras in the country. In 2008 she gave the world-premiere performance of Stefans Grové’s Concerto for Flute and Viola with the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa and was subsequently invited to perform this work at the 37th International Viola Congress in Stellenbosch. Jeanne-Louise has more than twenty years experience as principal violist of various professional orchestras in Gauteng and the Free State. As a student 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.


Admission
R120 (adults) per concert
R80 (pensioners, students and learners) per concert

Tickets @ Computicket (Shoprite / Checkers, Mimosa Mall)
Book online at www.computicket.com  

Enquiries:
Ella Kotze (FSSO), tel. 051 – 401 2342 (8:00 – 13:00)
www.fsso.org.za


 

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