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Liesl & Albie in Concert - Flute recital
2018-05-10

10 May 2018

Odeion

19:30

Liesl Stoltz studied at the University of Stellenbosch after which she studied in France and Italy where she obtained diplomas with distinction. She numbers among her teachers Éva Tamássy, Shigenori Kudo, Pierre-Yves Artaud and Peter-Lukas Graf and has won numerous prizes in national and international competitions in Romania and Germany. She has appeared as soloist with the Cape Town, Eastern Cape and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Free State Symphony Orchestra and with the UCT String Ensemble, Camerata Tinta Barocca and Odeion Sinfonia. In June 2010 she obtained the degree DMus from UCT. At present she performs extensively as soloist and chamber musician in South Africa and teaches privately and at the South African College of Music (University of Cape Town).

Albie van Schalkwyk is not only a solo performer in his own right, but is also one of the leading chamber musicians and vocal accompanists in South Africa. In his distinguished career he won both the UNISA Overseas Scholarship and first prize in the SABC Piano Competition. Besides performing as a piano soloist and with orchestras, he has given masterclasses for singers and accompanists and served as music producer and official accompanist for the SABC. In 2009 he was appointed Associate Professor in Piano and Chamber Music at the College of Music, University of Cape Town. In the same year the South African Academy of Arts and Science awarded him the Huberte Rupert Prize for his contribution to ensemble playing and teaching. He has also been a member of several well-known SA ensembles, notably the Songmakers Guild which gives younger performers opportunities to appear in song recitals.

www.lieslstoltz.co.za

www.sacm.uct.ac.za/sacm/staff/fulltime/assocProfessors/AlbieVanSchalkwyk

Programme

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Sonata, Op. 50
  • Gabriel Fauré: Fantasy, Op. 97
  • Georges Enescu: Cantabile et Presto
  • Bohuslav Jan Martinu: Sonata
  • Benjamin Godard: Suite de trois Morceaux, Op. 116
  • Frank Martin: Ballade
  • Robert Muczynski: Sonata, Op. 14

Admission

  • R120 (adults)
  • *R80 (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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Spencer Myer – piano recital

31 May 2012
Odeion
19:30

Spencer Myer, exceptional American pianist and gold medalist of the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition needs no introduction and the OSM grabbed the chance to have him here again in 2012. This will be the last time in a very long time that Spencer will be touring South Africa.

Spencer Myer’s orchestral, recital and chamber music performances have been heard throughout North America, Canada , Europe, Africa and Asia. He has been soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra, Louisiana and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestras, the Baton Rouge, Bozeman, Indianapolis, Knoxville, New Haven, Phoenix, Richmond (IN), Santa Fe, Southeast Iowa, Tucson and Wyoming Symphony Orchestras, and Beijing’s China National Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with, among others, conductors Nicholas Cleobury, Neal Gittleman, Jacques Lacombe, Jahja Ling, Maurice Peress, Matthew Savery, Klauspeter Seibel, Arjan Tien and Victor Yampolsky. In May 2005 his recital/orchestral tour of South Africa included a performance of the five piano concerti of Beethoven with the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa. Many of his performances have been broadcast on WQXR (New York City), WHYY (Philadelphia), WCLV (Cleveland) and WFMT (Chicago).

In 2004 Spencer Myer captured First Prize in the 10th UNISA International Piano Competition. He is also a laureate in the 2007 William Kapell, 2005 Cleveland, 2005 Busoni (where he was also awarded the Audience Prize) and 2004 Montréal International Piano Competitions. Spencer is winner of the 2006 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship from the American Pianists Association. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied with Julian Martin. Other teachers include Peter Takács, Joseph Schwartz and Christina Dahl. He also studied with Jerome Lowenthal and, later, Vocal Accompanying with Warren Jones and Marilyn Horne. During the course of his undergraduate studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he was the recipient of numerous awards from that institution. His Doctor of Musical Arts degree was conferred by Stony Brook University in 2005. Spencer Myer can be heard on the Dimension Records label. His debut CD for Harmonia Mundi USA was released in the fall of 2007.

Programme:
Haydn – Sonata in G major
Debussy – Préludes, Book I
Liszt – From Années de pèlerinage, Deurzième année: Italie – Sonetto 47 del Petrarca, 104 del Petrarca, 123 del Petrarca
Albéniz – Iberia, Book IV (Málaga, Jerez, Eirtaña)
Moskowski – Caprice Espagnol, Op. 37

Admission:
R120 (adults), R80 (pensioners, students and learners)
R50 (block booking of 10+)
Tickets available at Computicket.

Enquiries:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)
 

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