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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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OSM Sunday afternoon concert

“An Afternoon with Kreisler”

with Samson Diamond (violin) & Dana Cilliers (piano)

Sunday, 19 May 2013

Odeion

16:00

The Odeion School of Music cordially invites you to a free OSM Sunday Afternoon Concert with violinist, Samson Diamond and pianist, Dana Cilliers.    

They will perform works and arrangements by Fritz Kreisler.  The programme includes works like Caprice Viennois, Rondino on a theme by Beethoven, Tambourin Chinois,  Recitativo & Scherzo Caprice for solo violin and Syncopation as well as as arrangements by Kreisler like Albeniz’ Tango, Op.165 No.2, Danse Espagnole by Granados and Londonderry Air - Farewell to Cucullain.

Samson, leader of the Odeion String Quartet, is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (UK) where he obtained both the Bachelor of Music Honours degree First Class (2006) and his Master of Music Performance (2007) degree with distinction. Samson got his first taste of music in Soweto, where he studied with the founding director of Buskaid, Rosemary Nalden and in the UK with Richard Ireland, Pauline Nobes and Philippe Graffin. He has won many prizes, including the prestigious 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist for Music, the Charles Hallé Award; the RNCM Eric Nicholson Bow Prize, the RNCM Major Entrance Award, Edward Heaton Scholarship and the RNCM Philip Newman Violin Prize.

As a freelance orchestral player in the UK, Samson played in the Hallé Orchestra, the Academy of St Martins in the Fields, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, and the Academy of Ancient Music. He has been heard in concert in prestigious venues such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Berlin, Bela Bartok National Concert Hall in Budapest and the Musikverein in Vienna.  Samson has appeared as soloist with L’Orchestre Nationale d’France, the Buskaid Ensemble and prominent orchestras in South Africa, including the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra and the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dana Cilliers studied piano with Thomas Rajna at UCT. He completed a BMus and MMus degree.  As a student, he performed as a soloist with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, the CAPAB Orchestra and other ad hoc orchestras. He gave a number of public solo and ensemble recitals, and the SABC broadcast both solo recitals and orchestral performances on radio and television. In 1993, after teaching at schools in the Free State, he took a position as a lecturer in piano at the University of the Free State. In addition to numerous, regular solo and chamber recitals, notably as member of the Henkins-Cilliers Piano Trio. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Bloemfontein, and he also performs regularly as an accompanist at local and national competitions. 

Admission: Free (no booking necessary)

Enquiries: Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 – 401 2504)

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