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Jan & Clara Hugo
2018-03-22

A unique concert of piano solo works, opera and art songs

22 March 2018

Odeion

19:30

Lyrical soprano, Clara Hugo, was born in 1993 and started her musical education at the age of seven. She sang in the Maitrise de Paris choir under the direction of Patrick Marco and participated in numerous concerts with the Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre Lamoureux in prestigious halls in Paris, such as Salle Pleyel, Chatelet Theatre and Salle Gaveau. She has worked with John Axelrod, Christoph Eschenbach and sang Fauré's Requiem with Mathieu Romano. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Operatic singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Mendelssohn-Bartholdy” (Leipzig), where she studied with Regina Werner-Dietrich, Carola Guber and received further guidance from Philipp Moll, Jeanette Favaro Reuter and Alexander Schmalz. She specialized in 19th century singing technique and aesthetic under the guidance of Peter Berne. She received masterclasses from Donna Brown, Malcolm Walker and Valérie Guillorit. She took part in productions of Die Zauberflöte by Mozart and Das Wildschutz by Lortzing with the conductor Matthias Foremny and stage director Matthias Oldag. She sang the solo soprano part of La Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini and received a prize for her execution for Bach Cantatas in Leipzig. She performed at the Gewandhaus with the Cappuccino Orchestra and debuted in 2016 at the Leipzig Opera House in the roles of Barbarina and the first maid (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart). She gives regular recitals together with the pianist Jan Hugo.

Pianist Jan Hugo, born in 1991 in South Africa, studied at the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale in Imola (Italy) and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Mendelssohn-Bartholdy” (Leipzig). He has received guidance from Boris Petrushansky, Leslie Howard, Michel Dalberto, Cyprien Katsaris, Vovka Ashkenazy, Joaquin Soriano, Robert Levin, Graham Scott, Adam Wodnicki, Jin Ju, Piero Rattalino, Riccardo Risaliti, Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Alan Fraser, Joseph Stanford, Gerald Fauth, Christian Pohl, Piotr Palezcny, Christopher Elton and Ronan O'Hora. He is a prizewinner of many competitions, such as the Alkan-Zimmerman International Competition, Royal Overseas League International Competition, SAMRO and UNISA national competitions. He has played at the MITO and Edinburgh festivals, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), in the Sala Mozart (Bologna) and at the TivoliVredenburg (Utrecht). He has performed with the Cape Town Philharmonic, Johannesburg Philharmonic, KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic, Leipzig Philharmonic under the baton of Arjan Tien, Alexander Rahbari, Leslie Dunner, Bernhard Gueller, Giedre Slekyte, Daniel Boico, Sebastian Lang-Lessing and German Guttierez. He performed on the straight-strung concert grand made by Chris Maene and is passionate about historical instruments. His first CD was released in November 2017. Upcoming performances include recitals for the Wagner Society (Cape Town) and the Verbania Festival.

PROGRAMME

Joseph Canteloube: Extracts from Chants d'Auvergne
Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31
Franz Liszt: Die Lorelei; Die Drei Zigeuner
Giacomo Puccini: Si, mi chiamano Mimi from La Bohème
Franz Liszt: Un Bal from Symphonie Fantastique
Igor Stravinsky: No Word from Tom from The Rake's Progress
Claude Debussy: Air de Lia from L'enfant Prodigue
Poissons d'or from Images
C'est l'extase; Green and L'Ombre des arbres from Ariettes oubliées
Alexander Scriabin: Sonata No. 5, Op. 53
Gioacchino Rossini: Bel raggio Lusinghier from Semiramide
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12

ADMISSION

  • R140 (adults)
  • *R100 (pensioners)
  • *R80 (UFS staff)
  • *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.

ENQUIRIES

Ninete Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504 / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za)


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FSSO Symphony Concert - Free State Symphony Orchestra

Gérard Korsten

Denise Sutton

Jeanne-Louise Moolman

Free State Symphony Orchestra
Thursday 26 May 2011
Odeion
19:30

Programme:
Anton EBERL : Symphony in C
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART : Sinfonia Concertante
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN : Symphony No. 1

Gérard Korsten is regarded by many as the best conductor this country has ever produced. He took up his appointment as Music Director of the London Mozart Players in 2010. Over the next three years Gérard will be fully involved in the orchestra’s musical development. He will conduct all of its major UK concerts and will work with the orchestra to develop foreign touring as well as new project opportunities. Gérard is also Principal Conductor of the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg Bregenz.

Gérard Korsten’s recent engagements have included Le nozze di Figaro (La Scala, Milan) Ariadne auf Naxos & Hans Werner Henze’s L’Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (Lyon) Don Giovanni (Royal Opera, Stockholm) Cosi fan tutte (Teatro del Maggio Musicale, Florence & San Carlo, Naples) and concerts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders and Netherlands Radio Kamer Filharmonie.

Gérard Korsten conducts regularly in the Vienna Konzerthaus, Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1995 with Camerata Salzburg, and his Berlin Festival debut in 1998 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Forthcoming engagements include Cosi fan tutte and Albert Herring (Glyndebourne), La Veuve joyeuse & Siegfried (Lyon) Le nozze di Figaro (Gothenburg) and a debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. His recordings include the Tchaikovsky Serenade and Souvenir de Florence with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe for DGG, Don Pasquale for TDK, and Die ägyptische Helena, Euryanthe and Alfonso und Estrella and for Dynamic.

Denise Sutton has been leader of the Odeion String Quartet and Head of the Strings Department at the University of the Free State since 2008. She obtained a B.Mus cum laude at the University of Stellenbosch. An Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Scholarship enabled her to go to Amsterdam, where she studied with Theo Olof and Nap de Klijn, as well as London. She was leader of the second violins of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and successfully auditioned for the English Chamber Orchestra. With these orchestras she had the opportunity of touring the UK, France, Spain, Germany, the USA and Canada. On her return to South Africa, she was concertmaster of the PACT Orchestra for almost twenty years, and was also leader of the Transvaal Chamber Orchestra, Johannesburg Festival Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of South Africa (COSA). She has been a member of many chamber groups, notably the Rosamunde Quartet, of which she was leader and co-founder. Denise has appeared as soloist with various orchestras. She has extensive teaching experience and has taught many successful students who are working professionally here and abroad. She serves on the jury for competitions such as ARTSCAPE and the UNISA national string competition and is an examiner for UNISA, the University of Pretoria and North-West University.

Jeanne-Louise Moolman, violist, was appointed as a member of the Odeion String Quartet and senior lecturer in viola at the University of the Free State in 2008. Studied at the University of Pretoria under Prof. Alan Solomon where she obtained the B.Mus and B.Mus.Hons degrees with distinction. In Salzburg she studied under Thomas Riebl. She is an experienced chamber musician who regularly performs in various combinations with some of South Africa’s leading musicians. Jeanne-Louise was a founding member of the Rosamunde String Quartet. As soloist she has performed several concertos, including the Suite Hebraïque (Bloch), the Concerto in C mineur of JC Bach, Harold in Italy (Berlioz) and the Sinfonia Concertante (Mozart) with different orchestras in the country. In 2008 she gave the world-premiere performance of Stefans Grové’s Concerto for Flute and Viola with the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa and was subsequently invited to perform this work at the 37th International Viola Congress in Stellenbosch. Jeanne-Louise has more than twenty years experience as principal violist of various professional orchestras in Gauteng and the Free State. As a student she won, among others, the ATKV Forté and Oude Meester competitions and in 1985 she was the first winner of the University of Natal 75th Anniversary Prize.


Admission
R120 (adults) per concert
R80 (pensioners, students and learners) per concert

Tickets @ Computicket (Shoprite / Checkers, Mimosa Mall)
Book online at www.computicket.com  

Enquiries:
Ella Kotze (FSSO), tel. 051 – 401 2342 (8:00 – 13:00)
www.fsso.org.za


 

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