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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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Georgi Anichenko (cello) & Anastasya Terenkova (piano)

Georgi Anichenko (cello) & Anastasya Terenkova (piano)
21 February 2011
Odeion
19:30

Georgi Anichenko, winner of the Fifth International String Competition (cello section), began playing the cello at the age of five. By the age of eight, he was performing with the Minsk State Music College Orchestra. In 1996, he received First Prize at the International Competition for the Young Musicians in Moscow and a year later he took the Virtuosity Prize at the Junior International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Georgi entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris at the age of fifteen. He won Second Prize at the Lions Club International Cello Competition in Nantes (France) and in 2004, he graduated (with honours) from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. In 2008 Georgi received the first prize at the Note et Bein International French Music Cello Competition. In 2009 he received the Second Witold Lutoslawski Cello Competition in Warsaw (Poland). He regularly gives solo recitals and takes part in chamber music concerts worldwide.

Anastasya Terenkova started taking piano lessons at the age of six at the famous Moscow Gnessin's Special Music School for Gifted Children. At the age of eleven she gave her first solo recital. In 2001 she entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. She has performed solo and chamber music throughout Russia, South Africa, France and the USA. She is a scholarship recipient of Tarazzi Foundation of the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris (2003-5), Nadia et Lily Boulanger Foundation (2005), the ADAMI Foundation (2006-7) and the Meyer Foundation (2010). Anastasya is prize winner of various international piano competitions like the Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition (1995); Arcachon International Piano Competition (2002) and the Epinal International Piano Competition (2003), to name but a few.

Programme:
Fauré – Three Pieces
Poulenc – Sonata for cello and piano
Hanmer – Elegy: 24 Maraisburg
Prokofiev – Five Melodies, Op. 35a
Shostakovich – Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 40

Admission:
R120 (adults)
R80 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk, Waterfront Mall) and at the doors.

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

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