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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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Concerto for an African cellist (World Première)
 
 

-  An exceptional collaboration stretched over three continents -

19 March 2013

Odeion

19:30

featuring

Heleen du Plessis – cello

Malcolm Nay – piano

Magdalena de Vries – marimba

OSM Camerata directed by Hans Huyssen

The renowned South African cellist Heleen du Plessis (currently Williams Evans Executant lecturer for cello at the Music Department of the University of Otaga, New Zealand) is the initiator of a project with the title Cello for Africa. The project is a practical investigation of new cello repertoire with a specific focus on the instrument’s suitainability and potential role in music of hybrid styles, resulting from contemporary reflections on South Africa’s diverse musical cultures.  Envisaged as a series of performances in New Zealand and South Africa with ensuing a CD recording – she wishes to present and advocate South African compositions for cello in her current professional environment in New Zealand. Simultaneously it amounts to a reflection on the thrust of her career as an international cellist, with a strong prevailing awareness of her African roots and a definite urge to convey this sentiment and its energy by means of her unique performance style. On 19 March 2013 the Odeion School of Music (OSM) presents a concert with a varied but carefully combined programme of early and contemporary orchestral and chamber music.

Heleen has requested several new South African works for cello, two of which will be premièred on this occasion: she will be the soloist in Hans Huyssen’s Concerto for an African Cellist (with the OSM Camerata, directed by the composer).  Given his specific interest in indigenous African music, the SAMRO Foundation has granted Du Plessis' request to commission Hans Huyssen to this task.  Together with Magdalena de Vries, she will première Peter Klatzow’s A Sense of Place for marimba and cello.  Commemorating the 100th birthday of Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976) the programme furthermore includes his beautiful Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 65, for which Malcom Nay joins Du Plessis. 

Cellist Heleen du Plessis

http://heleenduplessis.com/

Odeion School of Music Camerata (UFS) directed by Hans Huyssen

http://www.huyssen.de/

Admission:

R110 (adults), R70 (pensioners), R40 (students and learners)

Tickets available at Computicket or at the door

Enquiries:   

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

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