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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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Andrey Baranov Violin Recital

Description: Andrey Baranov Tags: Andrey Baranovwith Maria Baranov (piano)

11 March 2017

Odeion

19:30

 

Andrey Baranov is winner of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2012. He is also a winner of Benjamin Britten and Henri Marteau International Violin Competitions, and a prizewinner of more than twenty other international competitions including Indianapolis, Seoul, Sendai, Liana Isakadze, David Oistrakh and Paganini (Moscow). 

 

He attended the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (St. Petersburg) and Consevatoire de Lausanne with L. Ivaschenko, V. Ovcharek, P. Popov and Pierre Amoyal.  Since making his major debut  in 2005 at the St. Petersburg Philharmonie Hall, Andrey has performed on renowned stages throughout the world.  Several  of his performances have been broadcast worldwide - on BR Klassik, Radio Orpheus, Espace 2 (Switzerland), YLE Radio  (Finland), WFYI, WFMT Chicago (USA) and NHK Sendai (Japan). 

 

Andrey has already appeared with leading international orchestras (e.g. the Luxembourg Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Belgium, MusicAeterna Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic London and SWR Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra).  He has performed alongside artists such as Martha Argerich, Julian Rachlin, Boris Andrianov, Pierre Amoyal, Eliso Virsaladze ennd Liana Isakadze.  

 

Maria Baranov was born in 1988 and began to play in ensemble with her brother Andrey Baranov. After garnering first prize in the All Russian Mazur Competition of ensembles, she began her performing career giving concerts in Russia, Germany, England, France, Monaco and Switzerland. Maria was recognized as a member of the "Best Duet" at the Academy of Lausanne (Switzerland), "Best Accompanist" in the Baltic Stars International Competition (St. Petersburg), and as a laureate in the Maria Yudina International Music Competition (St. Petersburg). In 2010 she became a prizewinner in the International Duo Competition which took place in Katrineholm (Sweden) with her brother Andrey Baranov (violin).  After graduating from the special music school at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (2007), she continued her studies under Professor Igor Lebedev at the same conservatory and graduated in 2012. From 2010 until 2015 Maria studied at the  Conservatory of Lausanne (Switzerland) where she received two master’s degrees under Professors Marc Pantillon and Christian Favre.

 

PROGRAMME:

Giuseppe Tartini: Sonata g-moll "Devil's Trill", Op. 1, No. 4

Pyotr IlyichTchaikovsky: Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 (Meditation, Scherzo, Melody); Valse-Scherzo Op. 34

Niccolò Paganini: La Campanella, Op. 7

Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonata for Solo Violin No. 4, Op. 27

Ernest Chausson:  Poème, Op. 25 

Maurice Ravel: Tzigane (1924)

 

ADMISSION

R130 (adults)

*R90 (pensioners)

*R70 (UFS staff)

*R50 (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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