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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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Her Lyrical Song

Her Lyrical Song

with Marguerite van Wyk (soprano), Piet Koornhof (violin), Danrè Strydom (clarinet) & Truida van der Walt (piano)

Sunday 1 March 2020
Odeion
16:00

A lyrical evening with a concert titled “Her Lyrical Song” with soprano Marguerite van Wyk, violinist Piet Koornhof, clarinetist Danrè Strydom and pianist Truida van der Walt. The programme will include works by Britten, Mozart, Whitacre, Schubert and S. Le Roux Marais.

Marguerite van Wyk her BMus (Ed) and BMus (Hons) performance degree under the guidance of Hanna van Niekerk at the UFS. During her studies she participated in numerous performances with Pacofs, the Youth Concert Festival together with the Pacofs Orchestra. She recently achieved her Master's Degree in Performance with distinction, under the guidance of Antoinette Olivier. Violinist Piet Koornhof is Associate Professor at the North West University (Potchefstroom). He studied with Professor Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York, and obtained a DMus in Musical Performance from the North West University. Danrè Strydom has established herself as one of South Africa's premier solo, chamber and orchestral musicians. After attending the Interlochen Arts Camp (USA), she studied with Heinrich Armer at the UFS. She furthered her studies at the Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, with renowned clarinettists Eli Eban and Eric Hoeprich. She holds two separate MMus degrees from the Royal Conservatory (Ghent University) and recently completed her PhD at the OSM. She was appointed woodwind lecturer at the OSM in 2014. Truida van der Walt is a well-known accompanist and chamber music player. After piano studies with Adolph Hallis (Johannesburg), she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Vienna). She was regularly invited by the provincial arts councils to accompany visiting overseas artists and has played for numerous winners of competitions.


PROGRAMME

Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
On this Island, Op. 11

Let the florid music praise!
Now the leaves are falling fast
Seascape
Nocturne
As it is plenty

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Aria: L’amero saro costante (Aminta)

From the opera: Il re pastore
with violin solo – Piet Koornhof

Eric Whitacre (Born 1970)
Five Hebrew love songs

Temuná (A picture)
Kalá Kallá (Light bride)
Lárov (Mostly)
Èyze shéleg (What snow)
Rakùt (tenderness)

with violin - Piet Koornhof

Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The shepherd on the rock)
with clarinet – Danré Strydom

Five songs of S. Le Roux Marias (1896 – 1979)
Lentelied
Dit is laat in die nag
Mali, die slaaf se lied
Rooidag


ADMISSION

  • R90 (adults)
  • *R50 (pensioners and UFS staff members)
  • *R40 (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. +27 51 401 2504)

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