Years
2019 2018
Nettie Immelman Memorial Concert
2018-05-03

3 May 2018

Odeion

19:30

Legendary piano teacher, Nettie Immelman, passed away in 2011 and the OSM presented the first memorial concert in her honour in 2012. Since then it became an annual event on the OSM concert calendar. For this year’s concert the pianist Nicol Viljoen (Associated Professor at the OSM) will be the performing artist.

Nicol Viljoen is the foremost expert of Schenkerian analysis in South Africa. His training under world-renowned specialists in the United States of America is currently still our country’s most intensive contact with dynamic international developments concerning this highly specialized music-analytical system. His research during the past two decades has focused both on theoretical Schenker studies, and on its application within musical performance practice through structuralist aural analysis. His exceptionally versatile activities as music theorist, concert pianist, chamber musician, jazz pianist, and academic, has greatly contributed to an inclusive vision of music study at the UFS. During 2003, Nicol Viljoen produced the compact disc Franz Schubert/Johannes Brahms (Unfoldings UCD001) together with the violist John Wille. In 2011, he produced his second compact disc, Transcendental Schubert, on the Mukavi label.

Programme

  • Schubert - Six Moments Musicaux, D. 780
  • Mozart - Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
  • Chopin - Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61
  • Chopin - Mazurka in C major, Op. 56/2; Mazurka in C minor, Op. 56/3; Mazurka in A-flat major, Op. 59/2; Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 50/3

Admission
Free

ENQUIRIES

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504) / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za


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The Mesh

By Keith Armstrong

Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Sasol Library

Exhibition closes:  Friday 11 August 2017

Gallery hours: Monday to Friday 08:30 – 16:30.

The Mesh is an interactive, experiential solo exhibition by Australian artist Keith Armstrong. The five artworks on exhibition each investigate how the ‘mesh' of environmental, social and cultural ecologies form our worlds, asking how might we re-imagine our place and actions within those networks as ‘refuturing’ (i.e. concerted actions that help increase time left in the future). 

Retrospective works are shown together with international premieres. These include a sculptural text-based work O Tswellang, arising from collaborations with 'change agents' in the informal townships around Bloemfontein. Another of the five works, the international premiere of Eremocene (Era of Loneliness), allows the viewer to interact with faintly glowing fibre optic forms that travel ethereally through a darkened tank accompanied by dynamic sounds, suggesting an naturalised/artificially intelligent form, ambiguously isolated at the edges of fluid consciousness. The exhibition also sees the re-development of innovative video installations such as Shifting Dusts, originally commissioned for the Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA) London in 2006 and Seasonal

Audiences navigate these works non-linearly, encountering kinetic light works, telescopic tunnels of ethereal imagery and sound and gently pulsing, ambiguous surfaces. Overall The Mesh seeks to shine a light upon the silent, shadowy barriers of cultural misunderstanding that prevent us from re-inventing ourselves as a future-sustaining species.

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