Years
2019 2018
LIESBETH SCHLUMBERGER-KURPERSHOEK – Organ Chair
2018-10-02

2 – 6 October 2018

CONCERTS

2 October 2018 – Sundowner Concert

(Lutheran Church, Bloemfontein, 17:30, Admission FREE)

3 October 2018 – Organ Recital

(Odeion, 19:30, Tickets @ Computicket)

MASTERCLASSES

4 – 6 October 2018

(Odeion / Kopanong)


The ODEION SCHOOL OF MUSIC aspires to excellence and aims to provide superior tuition at an international standard. The South African higher music education arena remains isolated in many senses, and this impression is reinforced by a declining number of students studying music. The OSM aims to fill these voids by pro-actively generating and facilitating excellence on several levels simultaneously. A multilateral policy towards internationalisation and innovation constitutes the cornerstone of our strategy.

The Liesbeth Schlumberger-Kurpershoek Organ Chair was founded in 2015 by the OSM and is positioned under the auspices of the OSM International Artistic Mentorship Programme (IAMP). The main objective of the IAMP being establishing partnerships with musicians (soloists, chamber musicians, and pedagogues) who are pursuing and already have established careers as musicians internationally. On par with international tendencies, the aim is to deploy these experts as instructors to coach and mentor OSM students complimentary to the local residential OSM performance faculty.

The amount of students studying the organ has declined drastically in South African during the last two decades. Therefore, it is imperative for the OSM that the anticipated initiatives and intellectual capital generated by the organ chair will be optimally accessible to all South African students, lecturers, liturgical and amateur organists.

The Liesbeth Schlumberger Organ Chair is assembled of an annual week-long intensive tuition programme to mentor and tutor SA organ students and organists under the tutelage of Liesbeth Schlumberger. Complimentary Liesbeth presents two concert recitals contrasting in nature during this timeslot as well as a lecture.

Apart from the scheduled annual programme to be hosted by the OSM in South Africa, our long-term aim is that talented OSM organ students will have the opportunity to study a semester or more of their studies under the auspices of Liesbeth Schlumberger and her colleagues in France at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon (Lyon CNSMD). Formal discussions with the aim of forging of a bi-lateral agreement between the Lyon CNSMD and the Odeion School of Music is planned for this year.

The OSM has presented already two already two highly successful events of the Liesbeth Schlumberger Organ Leaning Chair in 2015 and 2016. For both events students and organist from all over the country participated as master students at the event. The third Liesbeth Schlumberger Organ Leaning Chair is scheduled to take place from 28 September – 5 October 2018.”

PROGRAMME

Concert I : Sundowner Concert

  • Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707): Praeludium in F major, Bux WV 146
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Partita - Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig - O Jesu, du edle Gabe BWV 768
  • François Couperin (1668-1733): Messe à l’usage ordinaire des Paroisses, pour les Fêtes Solennelles
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1759-1791): Fantasia - Fantasie für eine Orgelwalze in F minor KV 608

ADMISSION: Free

PROGRAMME

Concert II : Liesbeth Schlumberger Recital (Odeion, Bloemfontein)

  • Louis Marchand (1669-1732): Pièces choisies pour l’Orgue de feu
  • César Franck (1822-1890): Choral No 3 in A minor (1890)
  • Jean Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Toccata, BWV 564

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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FSSO Symphony Concert - Free State Symphony Orchestra

Gérard Korsten

Denise Sutton

Jeanne-Louise Moolman

Free State Symphony Orchestra
Thursday 26 May 2011
Odeion
19:30

Programme:
Anton EBERL : Symphony in C
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART : Sinfonia Concertante
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN : Symphony No. 1

Gérard Korsten is regarded by many as the best conductor this country has ever produced. He took up his appointment as Music Director of the London Mozart Players in 2010. Over the next three years Gérard will be fully involved in the orchestra’s musical development. He will conduct all of its major UK concerts and will work with the orchestra to develop foreign touring as well as new project opportunities. Gérard is also Principal Conductor of the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg Bregenz.

Gérard Korsten’s recent engagements have included Le nozze di Figaro (La Scala, Milan) Ariadne auf Naxos & Hans Werner Henze’s L’Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (Lyon) Don Giovanni (Royal Opera, Stockholm) Cosi fan tutte (Teatro del Maggio Musicale, Florence & San Carlo, Naples) and concerts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders and Netherlands Radio Kamer Filharmonie.

Gérard Korsten conducts regularly in the Vienna Konzerthaus, Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1995 with Camerata Salzburg, and his Berlin Festival debut in 1998 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Forthcoming engagements include Cosi fan tutte and Albert Herring (Glyndebourne), La Veuve joyeuse & Siegfried (Lyon) Le nozze di Figaro (Gothenburg) and a debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. His recordings include the Tchaikovsky Serenade and Souvenir de Florence with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe for DGG, Don Pasquale for TDK, and Die ägyptische Helena, Euryanthe and Alfonso und Estrella and for Dynamic.

Denise Sutton has been leader of the Odeion String Quartet and Head of the Strings Department at the University of the Free State since 2008. She obtained a B.Mus cum laude at the University of Stellenbosch. An Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Scholarship enabled her to go to Amsterdam, where she studied with Theo Olof and Nap de Klijn, as well as London. She was leader of the second violins of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and successfully auditioned for the English Chamber Orchestra. With these orchestras she had the opportunity of touring the UK, France, Spain, Germany, the USA and Canada. On her return to South Africa, she was concertmaster of the PACT Orchestra for almost twenty years, and was also leader of the Transvaal Chamber Orchestra, Johannesburg Festival Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of South Africa (COSA). She has been a member of many chamber groups, notably the Rosamunde Quartet, of which she was leader and co-founder. Denise has appeared as soloist with various orchestras. She has extensive teaching experience and has taught many successful students who are working professionally here and abroad. She serves on the jury for competitions such as ARTSCAPE and the UNISA national string competition and is an examiner for UNISA, the University of Pretoria and North-West University.

Jeanne-Louise Moolman, violist, was appointed as a member of the Odeion String Quartet and senior lecturer in viola at the University of the Free State in 2008. Studied at the University of Pretoria under Prof. Alan Solomon where she obtained the B.Mus and B.Mus.Hons degrees with distinction. In Salzburg she studied under Thomas Riebl. She is an experienced chamber musician who regularly performs in various combinations with some of South Africa’s leading musicians. Jeanne-Louise was a founding member of the Rosamunde String Quartet. As soloist she has performed several concertos, including the Suite Hebraïque (Bloch), the Concerto in C mineur of JC Bach, Harold in Italy (Berlioz) and the Sinfonia Concertante (Mozart) with different orchestras in the country. In 2008 she gave the world-premiere performance of Stefans Grové’s Concerto for Flute and Viola with the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa and was subsequently invited to perform this work at the 37th International Viola Congress in Stellenbosch. Jeanne-Louise has more than twenty years experience as principal violist of various professional orchestras in Gauteng and the Free State. As a student she won, among others, the ATKV Forté and Oude Meester competitions and in 1985 she was the first winner of the University of Natal 75th Anniversary Prize.


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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