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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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Nettie Immelman Memorial Concert

with Jeanne-Minette Cilliers (piano)
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Odeion
19:30

Legendary piano teacher, Nettie Immelman, passed away in 2011. The Odeion School of Music decided to arrange an annual concert in her memory and Jeanne-Minette Cilliers was the obvious choice of a celebrated pianist to invite to perform in this first concert.
Jeanne-Minette Cilliers received lessons in her native country (South Africa) from amongst others, Nettie Immelman and Japie Human. Among the most versatile musicians of her generation she has been called “a pianistic poet”, garnering rave reviews for her color-rich and imaginative performances.

She made her orchestra debut at the age of 12 in South Africa playing Joaquín Turina's Rapsodia sinfónica. From a young age she won top prizes in national competitions including the coveted UNISA Overseas Music Scholarship and two special prizes at the UNISA International Piano Competition in 2000. International highlights include top prizes at the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale, the Kalamazoo Young Artists Bach Competition and the Nena Wideman Concerto Competition.

Increasingly in demand as a collaborator, Jeanne-Minette has performed in Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Israel, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, Barbados, and across North America - including festivals and venues such as the Irving S. Gilmore Keyboard Festival, the Ravinia Festival, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York City. She has collaborated with artists such as Frans Helmerson, Janos Starker, Roger Vignoles, Martina Arroyo, Håkan Hagegård, David Daniels, Joyce Castle, Lise Lindstrom, Lester Lynch, actor Zoe Caldwell, and director Peter Sellars.

Currently she is on the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, while also a music director for the Martina Arroyo Opera Foundation in New York City. Jeanne-Minette has recorded regularly for the SABC, and has featured on various SABC television and radio programmes.

She holds two performance licentiates in chamber music and vocal accompanying (equal to an arts diploma), both cum laude, from UNISA - received at the early age of eighteen. She earned her B.Mus. and M.Mus. degrees (with distinction) from the University of Michigan. As a student of Menahem Pressler, she earned an Artist Diploma from Indiana University. Jeanne-Minette is based in New York City.

Programme:
Prokofiev – Sonata, Nr. 4
Debussy - Estampes
Berg – Sonata, Op. 1
Schubert - Drei Klavierstücke, D 946

Admission:
R120 (adults), R80 (pensioners, students and learners)
R50 (group bookings of 10+)
Tickets available at Computicket.

Admission to the seminar and pre-concert talks are free.

Enquiries:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)
 

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