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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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DUO FourIVTwo

Magdalena de Vries (marimba) & Frank Mallows (vibraphone)

Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Odeion

19:30

Duo FourIVTwo featuring Magdalena de Vries (concert marimba) and Frank Mallows (vibraphone) started this formidable ensemble in 2003.   

Frank holds a M.Mus. degree from UCT and studied with Ed Saindon at Berklee College of Music (USA). Frank plays on a Musser gold bar vibraphone.  Magdalena obtained a Postgraduate Diploma with cum laude from the Tokyo College of Music (Japan) where she studied under Prof. Atsushi Sugahara. She won most of the National Music Competitions in South Africa, and was also winner of the Performing Australian International Competition in London (UK). Magdalena plays on a custom-made concert grand Marimba One marimba.

Duo FourIVTwo has performed with great success at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival; the Cape Town Concert Series (Baxter Concert Hall); the Aardklop Festival (Potchefstroom); Northwards House (Johannesburg); Baroque in the Bush (Kruger National Park); the Franschoek Festival; ZK Matthews Auditorium (UNISA); the Enoch Sontonga Conference Hall (UNISA); Oude Libertas Amphitheatre as well as the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival.

They are featured on the CD Myths, Magic and Marimbas.  Duo FourIVTwo is very passionate about performing South African compositions and continues to explore the rich talent of South African composers.

Expect an informative performance of visual spectacle and rich, rhythmic sonorous sensations.  

Programme:

W.A. Mozart – Fantasy in D minor, arr. FA Mallows

World premières – works by SA composers D. Kosviner & N. Stockton 

M. Scherzinger – Florestan's Island (world première)

C. Corea – Children's Songs, arr. FA Mallows

P. Klatzow – Variations on an Uncomposed Kyrie (SA première)

C. Loveday – Hoar Frost

I. Roux – Fasimba

Admission:

R130 (adults), R90 (pensioners, students and learners)

Tickets available at Computicket

Enquiries:   

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

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