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Douglas Masek Saxophone Recital
2018-07-31

with Neal Stulberg (piano)

31 July 2018

Odeion

19:30

The Los Angeles-based duo, in the country for the SANNSS, is touring the major South African cities. Both Masek and Stulberg, leaders in their respective fields, are internationally acclaimed soloists. The duo performs rarely heard selections from the concert saxophone repertoire in major cities around the country. Their program includes music by well-known composers such as Astor Piazzolla, David Heath, and even the South African composer, Allan Stephenson.

Internationally renowned saxophonist DOUGLAS MASEK, whose performances emphasize his versatility in a wide range of musical styles, from classical and contemporary to jazz, has consistently garnered critical acclaim. : The Los Angeles Times writes, (Masek’s) “...playing is smooth, sinuous, stunning, stylish, dazzling, and glowing with the requisite rich color.” In South Africa, The Argus describes “Masek’s tone: beautiful and pure” and the Cape Times adds “dynamic and magical.” With extensive concert touring in the United States, Europe, Asia, South Africa, and South America, he has also performed as a soloist at numerous festivals. He has performed with notable conductors, including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kent Nagano, Placido Domingo, John Mauceri, Andre Previn, Michael-Tilson Thomas, James Conlan, Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Giselle Ben-Dor, Rachael Worby, JoAnn Falletta, Arthur Rubinstein, Grant Gershon, Carlo Franci, Hubert Soudant, Paul Freeman, Allan Stephenson and Bernhard Gueller. He has also worked on motion picture sounds tracks for John Williams, Randy Newman, David Newman and others, for Sony, Warner, Paramount, Universal, Disney and 20th Century, along with television and radio broadcasts. Masek's discography includes seven solo CD collections; Distant Memories, Windwood, Recrudescence, Saxvoir Faire, Saxtronic Soundscape, Saxophone Alternative, and EclectSax. He has recorded for Centaur, Albany, Cambria, Atlantic, Navona, Koch International, Stereophile, Summit and Philips Classics recording companies. Masek completed his academic education with a D.M.A. from the University of Southern California. Currently Professor of Saxophone at UCLA, Douglas is also a Vandoren Elite Artist and Conn-Selmer Artist.

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Although an acclaimed pianist in his own right, it is as an orchestral conductor that NEAL STULBERG has been heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "…a shining example of podium authority and musical enlightenment," Stulberg has garnered consistent international acclaim for performances of clarity, insight, and conviction. Since 2005, he has served as Director of Orchestral Studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and currently serves as both Professor and Chair of the UCLA Department of Music. Stulberg has already led numerous North American orchestras, and international engagements have included the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Korea Philharmonic (KBS), Queensland, Adelaide and West Australian Symphonies, to name but a few. Behind the keyboard, Stulberg appears as recitalist, chamber musician and with major orchestras and at international festivals as pianist/conductor. His performances of Mozart concertos conducted from the keyboard are uniformly praised for their buoyant virtuosity and interpretive vigour. He has recorded for West German Radio, Donemus, Yarlung Records, Sono Luminus and the Composers Voice label. Stulberg is a graduate of Harvard College, the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School. He studied conducting with Franco Ferrara at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), piano with Leonard Shure, Theodore Lettvin, William Masselos and Mischa Kottler, and viola with Ara Zerounia.

PROGRAMME:

  • Melvin Solomon (b.1947): ‘a la Mozart’
  • Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Café 1930 (arr. Isoda/Sugawa)
  • Maria Grenfell (b.1969): Time Transfixed
  • Allan Stephenson (b.1949): Introduction and Allegro
  • Maria Newman (b.1962): Parens (Ancestors)
  • Bill Cunliffe (b.1956): Bechet
  • David Heath (b. 1956): Coltrane (solo saxophone)
  • Pedro Iturralde (b.1929): Suite Hellenique
  • John Boswell (b.1960): Waterfall
  • John Boswell: Kindred Spirits

ADMISSION

  • R140 (adults)
  • *R100 (pensioners)
  • *R80 (UFS staff)
  • *R60 (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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JÉRÔME PERNOO cello recital with Jérôme Ducros (piano)

21 November 2013

Odeion

19:30

 

Born in Nantes, Jérôme Pernoo first studied with Germaine Fleury and then with Xavier Gagnepain and Philippe Muller at the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris. In 1994, he was prize winner at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow as well as at the Rostropovitch Competition in Paris and, in 1996, he won the UNISA International Strings  Competition.

 

Pernoo has performed with most of the major symphony orchestras in Europe.  He has appeared in recital with the pianist Jérôme Ducros on some of the world's most renowned stages: the Wigmore Hall in London, the Florence Gould Hall in New York, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Cité de la Musique in Paris.

 

His 2008/9 season was highlighted by the world première of the cello concerto Guillaume Connesson has dedicated to him, with the Orchestra of the Rouen Opera, in Rouen and Paris. In 2011 he will perform this masterwork several times in France and at the Enescu Festival in Rumania.

 

His discography includes Bach's Suites for cello (live 1998), the Ricercati of Antonii and Gabrielli (2002), the Rachmaninoff and Frank Bridge Sonatas for cello and piano, the Cello concerto Nr. 2 by Saint-Saëns with the Orchestre de Bretagne under Nicolas Chalvin (Timpani Records, 2006) and the Cello concerto by Offenbach with Les Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski (Archiv-Deutsche Grammophon, 2006). He has just released his new CD-recording (for Ligia Digital) with Jérôme Ducros including works by Beethoven (among others the Kreutzer Sonata in the transcription by Czerny,).

 

Jérôme Pernoo plays a baroque cello and a piccolo cello. Both instruments are Italian and were built in the 18th century by the Milanese School. He also plays a modern cello made for him by Franck Ravatin.

 

Born in 1974, Jérôme Ducros studied piano with Françoise Thinat at the Music Conservatory of Orléans and also with Gérard Frémy and Cyril Huvé at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.  He postgraduated with Gérard Frémy and was also advised by Léon Fleisher, Gyorgy Sebök and Davitt Moroney.  In 1994 he took part in the first Umberto Micheli Piano Competition organized by Maurizio Pollini at the Scala di Milano (jury president: Luciano Berio). He was awarded the Second Prize and the Special Prize for the best interpretation of the imposed work (Incises, by Pierre Boulez).

 

Since then he has been achieving a brilliant career, performing at the Festival de Montpellier, at the Orangerie de Sceaux, at the Roque d'Anthéron, at the Festival de Pâques de Deauville, at the Théâtre du Châtelet, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, at Salle Pleyel, at Radio-France, at the Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse), at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and in London, Geneva, Rome, Berlin, New York and Tokyo. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Johannesbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonie de Chambre de Paris, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductors such as Alain Altinoglu, Paul Meyer, James Judd, Emmanuel Krivine, Marc Minkowsky and Christopher Hogwood.  A highly appreciated partner in chamber music, he has performed with Augustin Dumay, Michel Portal, Michel Dalberto, Nicholas Angelich, Franck Braley, Paul Meyer, Gérard Caussé, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Henri Demarquette, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Quintette Moraguès, Quatuor Parisii and Jérôme Pernoo (with whom he has been making a duo since 1995). In 2007, he performed at the French Victoires de la Musique with Maxim Vengerov. He also toured with soprano Dawn Upshaw to London, New York and Salzburg.  At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées their concert was recorded by Erato. In 2007 he started an intensive collaboration with Philippe Jaroussky, performing worldwide.

 

Among his most performed works in recital, his own transcription of Schubert’s Fantaisie for four hands that has raised unanimous enthousiasm. The recording of this transcription (Ligia Digital) was awarded the Diapason d’Or of the year 2001.  Jérôme Ducros is also a composer. His Trio for two cellos has been performed a number of times.

 

His recent recordings include the works for piano and orchestra by Fauré under the baton of Moshe Atzmon (Quartz), a recital with Renaud Capuçon (Virgin Classics), a programme with selected works by Beethoven with Jérôme Pernoo and a program with French melodies with Philippe Jaroussky, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon and Emmanuel Pahud (Virgin Classics).

 

PROGRAMME:

Bach: Sonata for viola da gamba in D major, BWV 1028

Ducros: Fantaisie for cello and piano

Shostakovich: Sonata in D minor for cello and piano, Op. 40

 

ADMISSION: R130 (adults), R90 (pensioners), R50 (students and learners), R50 (group booking of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket.                      

 

ENQUIRIES: Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

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