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Stockton Revealed
2018-03-04

Stockton Revealed

4 March 2018

Odeion

16:00

Stockton Revealed is an unique concert with a variety of Classical and Jazz compositions by well known celebrated composer and pianist, Noel Stockton.

Noel Stockton has established a wide reputation as a leading arranger, composer, performer, teacher and Jazz educator. He has been involved in all spheres of music for over fifty years.

Born in Benoni, Noel was a member of many well known South African bands in his youth, and broadcast extensively during the fifties and sixties. Subsequently he has conducted, arranged and composed, and performed for jazz ensembles, symphony orchestras and wind bands.

SAMRO commissions (compositions) include Manguang Suite (premièred and conducted by Dr F Fennell, USA), Concerto for Stageband premièred in 1994, by the Cape Town Jazz Orchestra Conversation Piece (Suite for String Quartet and Clarinet), Sol Y Sombra (Suite for String Quartet, Castanets and Clarinet.). Other compositions include Adagio for Strings, South African Folk Song Rhapsody, Invictus (orchestral prelude) for Jazz quartet and Symphony Orchestra, Gossip for Saxophone and String Orchestra and Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano.

Productions as music director/conductor include Pacofs Goes Pop, Noel Stockton Big Band Shows I and II, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Snoopy!!!!!, Die Goue Kring (also composer), Met Permissie Gesê, Romeo and Juliet, Brommer in die Boord, Nathaniel and Stockton in Concert, Grease, The Wiz, Sound of Music (for Eunice High School) and Flamenco - Jazz Fiesta.

Noel was a member of the PACOFS Symphony Orchestra and Senior Lecturer at the Musicon in Bloemfontein for 17 years, and lecturer in Jazz Studies and Theory at the University of the Free State and Pretoria University.

Musicians who will perform, include Noel Stockton (piano), the Nöthling-Strydom Duo (with Danrè Strydom – clarinet and Grethe Nöthling – piano), Francois Henkins (violin), Elspeth Neary (violin), Anna van Niekerk (viola), Anmari van der Westhuizen (cello), Tilla Henkins (cello), Geruan Geldenhuys (flute), Xavier Cloete (bassoon), Marco D’Angelo (trumpet), George Foster (tuba), Petro Engelbrecht (piano), Lesley-Ann Mathews (piano) and Jasmin Antonie (castanets).

PROGRAMME:

  • Six short pieces for Violin and Piano
  • Antiphonals for Trumpet and Piano
  • Diversions for Violin, Recorder and Piano
  • Invocation and Chant for solo V’Cello and Bembe
  • Three pieces for Clarinet and Piano
  • Sonatina for Tuba and Euphonium (Bassoon)
  • Sol Y Sombra Suite (in honour of Uys Krige)
  • Dance suite for Flute and String Quartet

ADMISSION

  • R70 (adults)
  • *R50 (pensioners)
  • *R50 (UFS staff)
  • *R40 (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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SARITA URANOVSKY Violin Recital

With Annalien Ball (piano)

14 June 2018
Odeion
19:30

A native of Cape Town, Sarita Uranovsky, enjoys an exceptionally active and diverse career as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral musician and teacher across the globe. She held positions of Concertmaster with Orchestra Geminiani de Fallonica (Italy), the RSAMD Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Concertmaster of the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra. A founding member and violinist of MONTAGE Music Society, she can be heard on Montage Music Society's "Starry Night Project" released on MSR Classics and has recorded and broadcast for both the BBC and SABC and appeared on numerous recordings for BMOP (Boston Modern Orchestra Project). She can be heard performing regularly in groups around Boston including Boston Philharmonic, Boston Musica Viva, the Cantata Singers, BMOP, Boston Pops and Emmanuel music. She performed regularly for Sir Yehudi Menuhin's "Live Music Now!" scheme while in the United Kingdom and appeared as first violinist of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Quartet in concert for HRH Prince Charles, HRH Princess Anne and at the church of St-Martin-in-the-Fields. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Ellie Marx Memorial and Du Toit van Tonder Scholarships and was silver medallist and University of Natal Prizewinner at the SASOL Music Competition (South Africa). She was awarded an Audrey Macklin Bursary (England) from the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music and won the prestigious Governors Recital Prize at the RSAMD as well as the Ian D Watt and Dunbar Gerber Prizes (Scotland) for violin and piano duo. An avid teacher, Uranovsky is on the music faculty at Tufts University and maintains a private teaching studio. She has been on the faculty of the Vianden International Music Festival (Luxembourg) and the Saarburg International Music Festival (Germany). She holds an Artist Diploma from Boston University, a BMus (with honours) and MMus (with distinction) from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Professional accompanist Annalien Ball regularly performs with various South African and International artists. Highlights of 2017 include recitals in Cape Town and Johannesburg with French violinist Philippe Graffin, accompanying for a week of singing masterclasses with Professor Klesie Kelly-Moog as part of the Mozart festival, and concerts with cellist Berthine van Schoor (Port Alfred and Grahamstown). Annalien started piano at an early age and her piano teachers include Adolph Hallis and Marian Friedman. She completed a BMus, BMusHons and MMus at the University of Pretoria. After finishing her studies her main focus moved away from solo performance to chamber music and piano accompaniment. Annalien has been the pianist of numerous ensembles: The Allegri Trio, Trio Con Brio, Chalumeau trio, Trio Gloriosa, The Aulos trio, The Integration trio as well as The Magic Flutes. She performed at the Wakkerstroom festival in March 2018 with violinist Miro Chakaryan and flautist Malané Hofmeyr-Burger, as well as playing recitals with violinist Viara Markova. At present she is the accompanist of pre- and postgraduate music students at the University of Pretoria.

PROGRAMME

  • Dvorák: Romance in F minor Op. 11
  • Beethoven: Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24
  • Sarasate: Romanza Andaluza
  • Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78
  • Smetana: From My Homeland

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
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

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