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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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Anzél Gerber (cello) & Ben Schoeman (piano)

28 May 2015

Odeion

19:30

 

Praised by various critics for her ability to capture the audience through her mature artistic approach, extraordinary musicality and technique, Anzél Gerber is increasingly performing on internationally renowned stages.  Her art as cellist has been shaped by Russia's most prominent teachers and soloists, starting with Alexander Fedortchenko (Spain), and Alexander Kniazev (Moscow State Conservatory).  Later, as part of her PhD in performance (Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2008), she pursued her studies under Natalia Shakhovskaya.  She is a dedicated exponent of the Russian school.

 

She received her first cello lessons from Glenda Piek and later Marian Lewin.  Under Lewin's tutelage she won several music competitions and scholarships, which enabled her to further her studies abroad.  She received guidance from David Geringas, Karine Georgian, Ralph Kirshbaum and Maxim Vengerov and has also attended masterclasses by Mstislav Rostropovich, Natalia Gutman, Heinrich Schiff, Bernard Greenhouse, Gary Hoffman, Maria Kliegel, Young-Chang Cho, Philippe Muller and Julius Berger.

 

As soloist she has collaborated with numerous conductors, including Gérard Korsten, Yasuo Shinozaki, Guido Ajmone-Marsan, David Tidboald, Leslie B Dunner, Christopher Dowdeswell, Robert Maxym, Gordon Hunt, Richard Cock and Hector Hevia.  Together with Ben Schoeman she received the Baronessa Constanza Arezzo Giampiccolo di Donnafugata IBLA Award as overall winners of the IBLA Grand Prize International Music Competition (Italy, 2012). 

 

She served on the faculty and was a member of the jury for the International Music Academy and Competition in Cremona (Italy, July 2013).  She is lecturing cello performance at the University of Stellenbosch since 2014. 

 

Ben Schoeman is regarded as one of South Africa's foremost pianists.  He studied at the University of Pretoria, the Accademia Pianistica 'Incontri col Maestro' (Imola, Italy), the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (UK) and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Italy).  His teachers include Joseph Stanford, Michel Dalberto, Louis Lortie, Boris Petrushansky, Eliso Virsaladze and Ronan O'Hora.  He is currently completing a doctoral thesis on the piano music of South African composer Stefans Grové.  He has won the first grand prize in the 11th UNISA International Piano Competition (2008), first prize in the Royal Overseas League Music Competition (London, 2009), the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music (2011) and the Contemporary Music Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition (USA, 2013).  He has given solo, chamber music and concerto performances throughout Europe, Canada, the USA and South Africa in such prestigious concert halls as the Wigmore, Barbican, Cadogan and Queen Elizabeth Halls (London), the Konzerthaus (Berlin), Paleis het Loo (the Netherlands), the Gulbenkian Auditorium (Lisbon), Teatro del Giglio (Lucca) and the Romanian Athenaeum (Bucharest).  He has performed at major festivals in the United Kingdom, Italy, South Africa, Romania and Canada. 

 

His solo album, featuring works of Franz Liszt, was released in 2011.  Ben was awarded the KykNet Fiësta and Kanna Awards in recognition of his performances of Liszt's music during the bicentenary of the composer (2011).  He is a Steinway Artist.

 

PROGRAMME

Anton Rubinstein: Sonata no. 1 in D major for cello and piano, Op. 18

Benjamin Britten: Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 65

Frédéric Chopin: Sonata for cello and piano in G minor, Op. 65

Bohuslav Martinu: Variations on a theme of Rossini for cello and piano (1942)

 

ADMISSION

R130 (adults)

R90 (pensioners)

R70 (UFS staff)

R50 (students and learners)

R50 (group bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket.

 

ENQUIRIES

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 – 401 2504051 – 401 2504)

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