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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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Stefan Temmingh (recorder) and Axel Wolf (lute) in “The Brocken Melody”

Thursday, 28 February 2013 

Odeion

19:30

Stefan Temmingh is part of the young generation of world-class recorder players. About his debut CD “Corelli à la mode” an Italian reviewer wrote: “Never before did recorder playing sound so effortless and so differentiated in terms of timbre and dynamics.”  - Corriere della Sera (Milano).   Published by the German label Oehms Classics, the recording was celebrated by the international music press in 2009.  His second CD “The Gentleman’s Flute” was immediately nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2011 (formerly MIDEM Awards).  Since then Stefan is regularly compared to the legendary Frans Brüggen.  Stefan comes from a Dutch-South-African family of musicians. He was born in 1978 (Cape Town) and now lives in Munich.  There he studied with Markus Zahnhausen as well as with Prof. Michael Schneider (Frankfurt). As a specialist in Early Music performance, his repertoire comprises the complete Baroque literature for recorder.  As a soloist he regularly performs with orchestras such as the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen, the Hofkapelle Muenchen, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and at the Ludwigsburg Festival. He has participated in recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Oehms Classics, Christophorus Records, the Southwest German and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporations.  His commitment ranges from Baroque to Modern music. One of his strongest desires is to extend the boundaries of the recorder repertoire and he succeeds to surpass the usual stereotypes concerning his instrument.   In 2008 he was awarded the Contemporary Music Scholarship of the City of Munich.  Since 2010 he has a lectureship at the Munich College of Music.

Axel Wolf is a freelance musician who lives in Bavaria (Germany). He travels to international festivals in Bruges, Utrecht, Edinburgh, Tokyo and New York, both as a soloist or member of ensembles including Musica Fiata (Cologne), the Freiburger Barockorchester, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and The English Concert.  He has been a regular guest at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, performing under the direction of Ivor Bolton, Harry Bicket and Christopher Moulds.  He completed his guitar and lute studies with Hans Michael Koch and continued it with Rolf Lislevand.  He has worked with conductors such as Peter Schreier, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Alan Curtis, Paul McCreesh and Joshua Rifkin in opera, concert and CD productions.  He was a lecturer at the Academy of Music and Theater Hanover (1986 - 2003).  In addition to numerous CD productions as a continuo player and accompanist, he has released solo recordings of the lute works of Johann Sebastian Bach, “Opera for Lute”.

PROGRAMME:

(The Brocken Melody - The fascinating art of Renaissance and Baroque variation): Works by Corelli, Ortiz, De Rippe, Dowland, Schop, Van Eyck as well as the ever popular Greensleeves.

ADMISSION:

R130 (adults), R90 (pensioners, students and learners)

Tickets available at Computicket.

ENQUIRIES:   

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

OSM MASTER CLASS SERIES 2013:

Stefan Temmingh will present master classes to three candidates on the day of the concert (Thursday, 28 February 2013) from 11:00 – 13:00 on the Odeion stage.  Come and see the master at work!

Admission: R50 per person

 

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