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SARITA URANOVSKY Violin Recital
2018-06-14

With Annalien Ball (piano)

14 June 2018
Odeion
19:30

A native of Cape Town, Sarita Uranovsky, enjoys an exceptionally active and diverse career as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral musician and teacher across the globe. She held positions of Concertmaster with Orchestra Geminiani de Fallonica (Italy), the RSAMD Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Concertmaster of the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra. A founding member and violinist of MONTAGE Music Society, she can be heard on Montage Music Society's "Starry Night Project" released on MSR Classics and has recorded and broadcast for both the BBC and SABC and appeared on numerous recordings for BMOP (Boston Modern Orchestra Project). She can be heard performing regularly in groups around Boston including Boston Philharmonic, Boston Musica Viva, the Cantata Singers, BMOP, Boston Pops and Emmanuel music. She performed regularly for Sir Yehudi Menuhin's "Live Music Now!" scheme while in the United Kingdom and appeared as first violinist of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Quartet in concert for HRH Prince Charles, HRH Princess Anne and at the church of St-Martin-in-the-Fields. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Ellie Marx Memorial and Du Toit van Tonder Scholarships and was silver medallist and University of Natal Prizewinner at the SASOL Music Competition (South Africa). She was awarded an Audrey Macklin Bursary (England) from the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music and won the prestigious Governors Recital Prize at the RSAMD as well as the Ian D Watt and Dunbar Gerber Prizes (Scotland) for violin and piano duo. An avid teacher, Uranovsky is on the music faculty at Tufts University and maintains a private teaching studio. She has been on the faculty of the Vianden International Music Festival (Luxembourg) and the Saarburg International Music Festival (Germany). She holds an Artist Diploma from Boston University, a BMus (with honours) and MMus (with distinction) from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Professional accompanist Annalien Ball regularly performs with various South African and International artists. Highlights of 2017 include recitals in Cape Town and Johannesburg with French violinist Philippe Graffin, accompanying for a week of singing masterclasses with Professor Klesie Kelly-Moog as part of the Mozart festival, and concerts with cellist Berthine van Schoor (Port Alfred and Grahamstown). Annalien started piano at an early age and her piano teachers include Adolph Hallis and Marian Friedman. She completed a BMus, BMusHons and MMus at the University of Pretoria. After finishing her studies her main focus moved away from solo performance to chamber music and piano accompaniment. Annalien has been the pianist of numerous ensembles: The Allegri Trio, Trio Con Brio, Chalumeau trio, Trio Gloriosa, The Aulos trio, The Integration trio as well as The Magic Flutes. She performed at the Wakkerstroom festival in March 2018 with violinist Miro Chakaryan and flautist Malané Hofmeyr-Burger, as well as playing recitals with violinist Viara Markova. At present she is the accompanist of pre- and postgraduate music students at the University of Pretoria.

PROGRAMME

  • Dvorák: Romance in F minor Op. 11
  • Beethoven: Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24
  • Sarasate: Romanza Andaluza
  • Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78
  • Smetana: From My Homeland

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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Lamont & Friends

In “All Beethoven”

16 May 2019 ~ Odeion ~ 19:30

The Odeion School of Music invites you to “Lamont & Friends” with a special all Beethoven programme.

Anneke Lamont started her career at the age of twelve years and was a pupil of Josias van der Merwe. She won the UNISA Overseas Scholarship and continued her studies in Hannover (Germany) under Arie Vardi. She was also taught by Lamar Crowson, Joseph Stanford, Albie van Schalkwyk and Madeleine Buffler. She received a PhD from the UFS in 2006. Anneke is an active performing artist, and Head of Piano studies at the OSM since July 2018. She has served on screening panels for UNISA Piano International Competitions. She has made several recordings and in collaboration with various artists; she has also performed on the national and international stage. Anneke invited the following guest musicians to join in this all Beethoven programme: Albertus Engelbrecht (tenor), Anmari van der Westhuizen (cello), Pieter Joubert (violin), Matthew Eshun (violin) and Danrè Strydom (clarinet).

Albertus Engelbrecht was appointed in opera houses of Nürnberg and Passau (Germany) for a total of seventeen years where he sang a diversity of leading roles such as Orfeo in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Ulisse in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incorronazione di Poppea (all three operas under direction of Kobie van Rensburg), Ramiro in Rossini's La Cenerentola, Duca in Verdi's Rigoletto, Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Guest contracts have taken him to Luzern (Switzerland) and Los Angeles (USA). As concert singer, he performed regularly in Berlin, Frankfurt, Mainz and Vienna. A highlight of his career was concerts of Medelssohn's Walpurgisnacht in the Teatro San Carlo (Naples, Italy). Since 2016 Mr Albertus Engelbrecht is lecturer in singing at the OSM.

Danrè Strydom has established herself as one of South Africa’s premier solo, chamber and orchestral musicians through her global concert experience. She began her musical training in Namibia and after attending the Interlochen Arts Camp (USA), she began her formal studies with Heinrich Armer (UFS). She furthered her studies at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where she worked with renowned clarinetists Eli Eban and Eric Hoeprich. She holds two master’s degrees in Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Performance from the Royal Conservatory (Ghent University) and recently completed her PhD at the OSM. Danrè studied conducting with various established conductors, including the late Chris Dowdeswell and Dirk Brosse. After playing clarinet/bass clarinet for the award-winning Brussels Philharmonic from 2009 to 2013, she accepted a position as woodwind lecturer at the OSM.

Pieter Joubert is a Gr. 11 learner at Sentraal High School and receives lessons from Francois Henkins. In 2017-8 he was chosen as the best senior string player at the Bloemfontein Eisteddfod. In 2017 he performed as soloist with the FSSO during their concerto festival. He is concertmaster of the FSYO and regularly performs with the SMA Sinfonietta. During the 2017-8 Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival, he was selected as member of the Festival Orchestra. He also took part in the Gauteng and Franschhoek Chamber Music Festivals.

Matthew Eshun is a student from Ghana studying towards a BMusHons degree in violin performance with Samson Diamond as well as Cultural Musicology at the OSM. He is currently the principal second in both the OSM Camerata and and FSYO and has received masterclasses from David Bester. He is also a research assistant at the OSM.

Anmari van der Westhuizen graduated from the University of Stellenbosch (BMusHons), from the Mozarteum, Salzburg (Grosses Diplom), and from the Hochschule für Musik (Cologne) with Maria Kliegel (Konzertexamen). In 2013 Anmari received her PhD from the University of Pretoria. She has won prestigious competitions including the ATKV Forte Competition, the SABC Competition and the Oude Meester Competition. Anmari has performed in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Faroe Islands, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

PROGRAMME

  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
    • Adelaide, Op. 46
    • Sonata in F major (Spring Sonata), Op. 24 No. 5
    • Sonata in A minor, Op. 23 No. 4
    • Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
    • Clarinet Trio in B flat major, Op. 11
    • Rondo e capriccio Op. 129 for piano

ADMISSION

  • R130 (adults)
  • *R70 (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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