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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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Melodies from Paris

Description: Melodies from Paris Tags: Melodies from ParisSongs from the Parisian belle époque with French lyrical soprano Laetitia Grimaldi Spitzer & Ammiel Bushakevitz (piano)

6 May 2016

Odeion

19:30

 

The French soprano Laetitia Grimaldi and pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz offer a program of Romantic French songs, presented in the style of a Parisian salon concert from the belle époque. From the heights of Marcel Proust to the decadence of the Moulin Rouge, the belle époque (circa 1871-1914) was a time when culture flourished more than ever in Paris. The salons of Paris became places where poets, painters and composers would meet to share their art.

 

Laetitia Grimaldi performs worldwide since her Carnegie Hall debut in 2013. After beginning her vocal studies with Teresa Berganza, she continued her studies in New York City, first at the Manhattan School of Music, followed by a Masters degree from the Juilliard School. During her studies at the Juilliard School, Laetitia was awarded first prize in the Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship International Competition. She is also a top prizewinner in the Concours Léopold Bellan (Paris, 2013). She has received mentorship with some of the world's leading artists, including Dame Emma Kirkby, Illeana Cotrubas, Alfred Brendel, Teresa Berganza, Sir Thomas Allen, Masaaki Suzuki and Matthias Goerne, amongst others.

 

Ammiel Bushakevitz has performed in over thirty countries across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. He has received top prizes at numerous competitions including the International Schubert Competition, the International Johannes Brahms Competition, the Concours Léopold Bellan in Paris and the 2013 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition (London). After graduating from the University of Pretoria, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” (Leipzig, Germany) and furthered his studies at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique (Paris). He has a special love for song accompaniment and has received mentorship from notable singers including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elly Ameling, Thomas Hampson, Matthias Goerne and Teresa Berganza.  Ammiel is an alumnus of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, an honorary member of the Richard Wagner Society of South Africa and an Edison Fellow of the British Library.

 

PROGRAMME:

Henri Duparc:  L'Invitation au voyage; Soupir, Chanson triste

Franz Liszt:  Jeux d'eaux à la villa d'Este

Gabriel Fauré:  Le secret; Clair de lune; Romance sans paroles, Op. 17 No. 3

Jean-Philippe Rameau:  Rigaudon, from Dardanus (trans. Godowsky)

Reynaldo Hahn:  À Chloris; Quand je fut pris au pavillon

Charles Gounod:  Le premier jour de mai; Venise; Viens! Les gazons sont verts

Georges Bizet:  Chansons-mélodies: Extase

Joseph Cantaloube:  Baïlèro, from Chants d'Auvergne

Charles-Valentin Alkan:  Recueil de chants, Op. 38 No. 1

Léo Delibes: Chant de l'almée; Les filles de Cadix

 

ADMISSION:

R130 (adults)

*R90 (pensioners, students and learners)

*R70 (UFS staff)

*R50 (group bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket.

*Please note that tickets for pensioners, students, learners and UFS staff can only be purchased at a Computicket outlet (Shoprite Checkers shops) or at the door 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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