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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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An Evening with Kobie Kloppers

5 October 2013
Odeion
19:30

Staff and students of the OSM will present a special concert in honour of Kobie Kloppers.

Jacobus (Kobie) Kloppers (born in 1937 in Krugersdorp) has taught musicology and organ in South Africa and Canada and given organ recitals, including broadcast work for the SABC and CBC.  He has served as a church organist, examiner, composer and organ advisor. He served on the Organ Advisory Committee of the Winspear Centre (1994 - 2002), Edmonton and oversaw the final voicing of the new Davis Concert Hall Organ in the Centre.  He is a member of the Canadian League of Composers, voting member of the Canadian Music Centre, The Edmonton Composers Concert Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. His musical compositions have been performed and broadcast in Europe, the Americas, Hong Kong, and South Africa.

Kobie Kloppers served professor in organ and musicology as well as chairperson of the music department at the King’s University College in Edmonton (Alberta; Canada) from 1979 - 2008.  After his retirement in 2008, he continued as full-time lecturer in organ and musicology at King’s and adjunct professor in keyboard at the University of Alberta until 2013. After completing his undergraduate studies and organ licentiate in South Africa, he continued his studies in Frankfurt am Main: organ with Helmut Walcha at the Musikhochschule (1961 - 1965), and musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (1961 - 1966). 

His compositions (around 70) include works sponsored by the Canada Council, CBC, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, the Marjorie Young Bell Fine Arts and Music Fund at Mount Allison University (Sackville, New Brunswick), the South African Foundation for the Creative Arts and various private sponsors. 

Organists Jan Beukes, Eljee du Plooy, Luzanne Eigelaar and pianist Cèzarre Strydom, will perform during the concert.

PROGRAMME:

Chorale Prelude on Valet will ich dir geben
Chorale Prelude on Wie gross ist des allmächtigen Güte
Pastorale on Ps 23
Choral Prelude on Ps 25
Introduction and Toccata on Lass uns Erfreuen
Partita on In Dulci Jubilo
Partita on The Old Hundredth
Dance Suite for organ duet
Dialektiese Fantasie
Reflections: Prologue, Variations and Epilogue

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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