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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+)

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*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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OSM Opening Concert 2014

Thursday, 27 March 2014

ODEION

19:30

On 27 March 2014 the Odeion School of Music will present its annual Opening Concert. 

During the first half of the programme top students and lecturers of the OSM (Danrè Strydom, Luzanne Eigelaar, Lesley-Ann Mathews and Heinrich Lategan) will perform, followed by the OSM Camerata (OSMC) performing together with OSM vocal students under tutolage of Peet van Heerden and members of the Odeion Choir (Lance Phillip) in the second half.  The OSMC will be conducted by Xavier Cloete.  In this programme two short excerpts from Idomineo (Mozart) and Fidelio (Beethoven) as well as Valse triste by Sibelius will be performed.  OSM MMus student Werner Stander will be serving as assistant conductor for Xavier Cloete. 

In 2011 Xavier Cloete completed a BMus degree at the University of Stellenbosch with bassoon and orchestral conducting as main instruments. He is currently employed by the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (KZNPO) as the assistant conductor for the KZNPO Youth Orchestra.  In 2013 he won the second National Len van Zyl Conductor's Competition.  After winning this competition, he was selected as one of the top 200 successful young people in South Africa, and appeared in the national Mail and Guardian newspaper during March 2013.

As the winner of the competition, Xavier completed a conducting internship with the famous Philadelphia Orchestra which gave him the opportunity to work with acclaimed conductors such as Christoph von Donyani, Andre Bureko as well as Yannick Nezet-Seguin.  He then studied conducting at the Bienen School of Music (Northwestern University) in the Advanced Graduate Conducting Class of Prof Victor Yampolski.

Xavier was invited to attend the first Sasha Mäkilä International Master Classes (Finland) during January 2013 where he conducted the St Michel's City Orchestra.  He will be making his international debut with the St Michel's City Orchestra (Finland) during April 2014.

The OSMC participated in 2013 in the 13th International Conservatoire Festival which was hosted at the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatoire in St Petersburg (Russia) where they received a standing ovation during their gala performance in the Glazonov Hall.  In 2013 the OSMC performed during the CD recording of Cello for Africa (Cello Concerto for an African Cellist by Hans Huyssen) with SA cellist Heleen Du Plessis.  The CD was internationally released on the New Zealand label for Classical Music ODE records. In March 2014 this CD was nominated for the The Violoncello Foundation - 2nd Listeners' Choice Award in NY.

ADMISSION:

R110 (adults), R70 (pensioners), R60 (UFS staff), R40 (students & learners), R40 (block booking of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket

PLEASE NOTE: ALL UFS STAFF QUALIFY FOR A DISCOUNT FOR THIS EVENT!! CONTACT NINETTE PRETORIUS  (PretoriusN@ufs.ac.za) FOR MORE INFORMATION AT X2504

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