Years
2019 2018
THE RHAPSODIC ORGAN
2018-06-07

with Gerrit Jordaan

7 June 2018

Odeion

19:30

Gerrit Jordaan studied organ under the guidance of Stephan Zondagh (pupil of Marcel Dupré and Nadia Boulanger), Wim Viljoen (pupil of Marie Claire Alain) and Daleen Kruger (pupil of Jean Claude Zender). In 2007 he completed a DMus with a dissertation on Stefans Grové's Afrika Hymnus II. This Hymnus was dedicated to Gerrit – as it was conceived in a dream wherein the composer heard him playing this work.

Since his student days, Gerrit has been involved with South African organ music, commissioning and performing new works – of which some had been dedicated to him - writing articles on this repertoire, working towards performances with the insight of the composers, recording this repertoire, typesetting and adapting instrumental works to the organ. As an enthusiast of South African music, he presented recitals in Europe as well as Finland and Canada. In 2016 he was invited to play the final recital at the Klangzeit Festival for contemporary music in Münster (Germany). Some of his articles were published internationally in Het Orgel, Organ – Journal für die Orgel, Orgue Nouvelles as well as in local academic publications. He wrote reports on the Stylus Phantasticus in the Praeludia of Buxtehude and on the Choral Preludes of Brahms. He studied historical performance practice of standard repertoire in numerous masterclasses at UNISA Organ Simposia, Haarlem Summer Academia and in Pistoia from organists including Luigi Tagliavini, Harald Vogel, Ludger Lohmann, Bernard Lagacé, Wolfgang Zerer, Olivier Latry, Marie Claire Alain and Szigmund Zsathmary. Until recently, Gerrit was chair of the Church Organist Committee of Southern Africa (SAKOV). He compiled three volumes of original Southern African choral preludes and choir pieces for SAKOV. He is a member of VONKK – a committee that develops new Afrikaans church music – creating new songs, providing organ, choir and instrumental arrangements to this growing repertoire.

PROGRAMME:

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G major (BWV 541)
  • Jacobus Kloppers: Celtic Impressions (2003/4) - Two Strathspeys, Two Airs, Two Jigs, Toccata on two marching songs
  • Surendran Reddy: Toccata for Madiba (ca. 8:00)
  • Antalffy-Zsiross Dezso: Sketches on Negro Spiritual Songs (ca. 7’00)
  • George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (organ transription: Tobias Zuleger)

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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DAVID HELBOCK – Solo Piano

Playing compositions from the recent ACT CD release Playing John Williams & Into the Mystic

12 March 2020

Odeion

19:30


“Great!” - Jazz thing (DE)
“Accomplished, melodic playing” - The London Times (GB)
“David Helbock is a musician to watch. [...] An impeccable pianist with a clear, crisp touch.” - Jazzwise (GB)
“Best of all, of course, is the pianism of David Helbock. He has a magical and mysterious relationship with the keyboard… a masterclass in careful control of nuance and ineffable beauty.” - Jazz da Gama (Canada)

Two rewards and the audience prize at the world biggest jazz-piano-solo competition of the Jazz Festival Montreux (CH), a lot of enthusiastic international reviews for his CDs, and tours all over the globe with his own projects - David Helbock has, without a doubt, already had a great international musical career.

The new program Playing John Williams is also the title of his fourth solo piano album after the releases Emotions (2003), Time (2007) and Purple (2012).

Since 2016 David Helbock is an exclusive artist with the well-known German jazz label ACT-Music with whom he has released two albums already – Into the Mystic (2016) and Tour d’horizon (2018). Playing John Williams, his third CD with ACT now, is a solo piano album, which was released end of August 2019.

On this album, David Helbock deals with the music of John Williams, one of the most famous film music composers of all time, who wrote nearly all the music to Steven Spielberg´s Blockbusters.

David Helbock connects seamlessly to two of his projects in the past. On the CD Purple (Traumton - 2012) the pianist dealt with compositions of the famous pop artist Prince and already back then transferred and reduced Pop Culture into his unique and creative solo piano language. On the CD Into the Mystic (ACT - 2016), David Helbock, who was awarded the most important prize of Austria – the Outstanding Artist Award in 2011, dealt with mystical stories from different mythologies together with his trio with bass ukulele and drums.

Already back then the trio touched on the music of John Williams and played an arrangement of the film music of Star Wars - a film full of cross-connections between different mythological elements.

Film music from blockbusters like Indiana Jones, Harry Potter to Jaws or Schindler´s List are reduced to their essence and shine like new in unique, creative and jazzy solo piano arrangements.

David Helbock will also perform some of his own original compositions from his album Into the Mystic - a programme that dives into a spiritual world. David was inspired to write compositions by stories of different cultures and their mythology. In this way, some very driving pieces, along with the spirit of our time but also many quiet, mystical moments, emerged.

PROGRAMME

  • Hedwig’s Theme Version 1 (John Williams)
  • E.T. (John Williams)
  • Hymn to the Fallen (John Williams)
  • Jaws (John Williams)
  • Schindler’s List (John Williams)
  • Escapades (John Williams)
  • Hedwig’s Theme Ver. 2 (John Williams)
  • Eros (David Helbock)
  • AM (David Helbock)
  • Spiritual Monk (David Helbock)
  • The Soul (David Helbock)
  • Duel of the Fates - Star Wars Episode 1 (John Williams)

ADMISSION

R160 (adults)
*R80 (pensioner s and UFS staff members)
*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.

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