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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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Free State Symphony Orchestra
Thursday 3 March 2011
Odeion
19:30

Conductor: Arjan Tien
Soloist: Maria du Toit (clarinet)

Hendrik ANDRIESSEN Variations on a theme by Kuhnau
WEBER Clarinet Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Dutch conductor Arjan Tien has been working with South African orchestras since 1998 - the Kwa-Zulu Natal Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, th JPO and the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. This is the first visit of the popular conductor to Bloemfontein. In 2000, at short notice, Arjan Tien was invited to conduct the Netherlands Youth Orchestra, and in 2001 he made a successful debut in the summer season of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. 2002 marked the beginning of a successful relationship with the Metropole Orchestra, recording with them the film music for the awarded Dutch film "Twin Sisters", which has also been released on CD. His second CD with the Metropole Orchestra, “Quand tu dors” with Wende Snijders, received an Edison Award, the oldest and most prestigious Dutch music award. His extensive symphonic and opera repertoire ranges from Baroque to Contemporary music.

He has conducted numerous television, radio, CD and DVD recordings and several world premieres, appearing in Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa, Serbia Montenegro, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey, where he worked with orchestras such as the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (Ankara), L'Orchestre Symphonique de Bienne, the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (Durban), the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, the Metropole Orchestra, the Cape Town and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Residentie Orchestra (The Hague), the Arnhem Philharmonic, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.

Principal clarinettist of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra in Cape Town, Maria du Toit is not only recognised as a distinguished orchestral musician, but indeed as one of South Africa’s finest solo instrumentalists. She has won numerous prizes in South African instrumental competitions, and in 2006 also the first prize of the international clarinet competition Jeunesses Musicales held in Bucharest, Romania.

Du Toit has appeared on various occasions as soloist with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Johannesburg Philharmonic and in 2002 with the FSSO. Active also as recitalist and chamber musician, her performance credits include the Stellenbosch International Chamber music Festival, Aardklop Arts Festival, Klein Karoo Klassiek, Darling Festival, Greyton Festival, Cape Town Concert Series, Stellenbosch Festival, International Classical Music Festival South Africa and UNISA Concert Series, among others.


Admission
R120
(adults) per concert
R80 (pensioners, students and learners) per concert

Tickets @ Computicket (Shoprite / Checkers, Mimosa Mall)
Book online at www.computicket.com  

Enquiries:
Ella Kotze
(FSSO), tel. 051 – 401 2342 (8:00 – 13:00)
www.fsso.org.za

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