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Antonio Pompa-Baldi
2018-05-24

24 May 2018

Odeion

19:30

Born and raised in Foggia (Italy), Antonio Pompa-Baldi won the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 1999 and embarked on a career that continues to extend across five continents. A top prizewinner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris (France), Antonio Pompa-Baldi also won a silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Antonio appears regularly at the world's major concert venues including New York's Carnegie Hall, Paris' Salle Pleyel, Milan's Sala Verdi, Shanghai's Grand Theatre, and Boston's Symphony Hall. He performed in London, Tokyo, Seoul, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Kiev, Auckland, Hong Kong, and Beijing, and conducted masterclasses at the China National Conservatory. Pompa-Baldi has played with the Houston Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Boston Pops, and Colorado Symphony, among many others. He has collaborated with great musicians and conductors such as Hans Graf, James Conlon, Louis Lane, Keith Lockhart and Miguel Harth-Bedoya.

His extensive recording catalogue features 20 CDs and is constantly growing. They include the entire piano repertoire of Grieg in twelve CDs, a live recital of his award-winning Cliburn Competition performances and “The Rascal and the Sparrow - Poulenc meets Piaf” piano arrangements of songs by Francis Poulenc and Edith Piaf. His CD, “After a reading of Liszt”, is a tribute to Liszt, and other recordings include an all-Schumann disc, an all-Rachmaninoff CD, as well as the Rheinberger Piano Sonatas. Pompa-Baldi is now recording the complete Hummel Piano Sonatas.

In May 2014 Pompa-Baldi completed live performances of all the Rachmaninoff Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody with the CPO. In January 2015, he performed a recital at the First Lang Lang International Piano Festival in Shenzhen (China). In March 2015, he performed all the Beethoven Concertos in Fresno (CA). Other recent notable engagements include the Cheyenne Symphony (Respighi Piano Concerto), Nova Scotia Symphony (Rachmaninoff Second and Third Piano Concertos), and recitals in Wenzhou and Xiamen (China), San Jose (CA), Ravello Festival, Todi International Music Masters festival and the island of Sardinia (Italy).

A Steinway artist, Pompa-Baldi is on the piano faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is the founder and faculty member of Todi International Music Masters (Italy), and sits on the juries of the most prestigious piano competitions of the world, including the Cleveland International Piano Competition, the Hilton Head Piano Competition, the International Edvard Grieg Piano Competition in Bergen (Norway) and the San Jose International Piano Competition.

www.pompa-baldi.com

PROGRAMME

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Sonata Op.13 in E flat
  • Five French songs of Poulenc and Edith Piaf
  • Francis Poulenc: Napoli Suite
  • Giuseppe Martucci: Fantasia Op. 51
  • Nikolai Medtner: Sonata Tragica
  • Roberto Piana: Improvisations on Neapolitan Songs

ADMISSION

  • R140 (adults)
  • *R100 (pensioners)
  • *R80 (UFS staff)
  • *R60 (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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Die Seemeeu

Produksie: Die Seemeeu
Dramaturg: Anton Tsjechow
Vertaler: Andre P Brink
Regisseur: Gerben Kamper
Venue: Wynand Moutonteater
Datum: 17-20 Maart 2009
Tyd: 19:30
Besprekings: Computicket (Mimosa Mall en Checkers)

 

“Laat alles op die verhoog net so ingewikkeld wees, en tegelyk net so eenvoudig as in die lewe. Mense is besig om te eet, bloot te eet, maar op daardie oomblik word hulle geluk gevorm, of hul lewens word verpletter” (Anton Tsjechow).

Die Universiteit van die Vrystaat se tweede jaars by die Drama departement bring ‘n besondere produksie op die planke onder leiding van Gerben Kamper. Die Seemeeu deur Anton Tsjechow word beskou as een van sy beste toneelstukke en word vanaf die 17de tot die 20ste Maart 2009 in die Wynand Mouton Teater opgevoer. Hierdie is een van die drie realisme toneelstukke wat deel vorm van die module produksies wat die departement terug gebring het.

Anton Tsjechow, 1860 – 1904, het, volgens André P. Brink wat die Afrikaanse vertaling van Die Seemeeu behartig het, vier van die teaterwêreld se grootste stukke geskryf: Die Seemeeu, Oom Wanja, Die drie susters en Die kersieboord. Tsjechow het met hierdie stukke die hoogtepunt in die Naturalistiese - en Impressionistieseteater bereik. Alhoewel Die Seemeeu met die openingsaand in Sint Petersburg in 1896 hopeloos misluk het, was dit wel ‘n reuse sukses twee jaar later toe die Moskouse Kunsteater dit op die planke gebring het. Die mislukking van die eerste opvoering van die stuk het ‘n knou toegedien aan Tsjechow se skrywersdrif en hy het maar min geskryf hierna.

In Die Seemeeu, ‘n komedie, is daar skrywers, aktrises, die dood en hope onbeantwoorde liefde. Om ‘n rowwe idee te gee: Nina, ‘n jong aspirerende aktrise, is verlief op Trigorin, ‘n bekende skrywer, terwyl Trepliow, die seun van die groot aktrise Madame Arkadina, verlief is op Nina. Trigorin, op sy beurt het ‘n verhouding met Arkadina. Tussendeur is daar dan ook Sorin, broer van Arkadina en ook die eienaar van die landgoed waar die handeling plaasvind. Sy voorman, Sjamrajew, se vrou, Polina, het ‘n buite-egtelike verhouding.

Een van die ander, sal ons sê temas, wat in die stuk voorkom is die vernuwing in teater. Waar Arkadina se generasie net gefokus het net op die voorkoms van die opvoering en die oor wat gesê word nie, wil Trepliow dit so verander dat daar gefokus word op die betekenis van dit wat oorgedra word. As gevolg hiervan kry Arkadina en Trepliow stry.

Die rolverdeling vir Die Seemeeu is as volg:

Irina Nikolajewna Arkadina - Edelweiss Bester
Konstantin Gawrilowitsj Treplew - Drikus Saayman
Pjotr Nikolajewitsj Sorin - Quintus Aslett
Nina Mikhailowna Zaretsjnaja - Sanli Jooste
Ilja Afanasjewitsj Sjamrajew - Brandon Hewetson
Paulina Andrejewna - Corma Steyn
Masja - Mieke du Plessis
Boris Alexejewitsj Trigorin - Caval Goodyear
Jewgeni Sergejewitsj Dorn - Frantz Birkholtz
Semjon Semjonowitsj Medwedenko - Frans Fourie
Jakow - Makara Makara
Kok - Kgomotso Lebakeng
Huisbediende - Lerato Chipfupa

Kaartjies vir Die Seemeeu is beskikbaar by Computicket en is R25 – R30.
 

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