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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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Between Art Violinists & Beer Fiddlers

24 October 2019

Odeion

19:30

An interesting concert with seventeenth century repertoire juxtaposing musicians of different social classes…with a touch of humour!

In this concert Antoinette Lohmann (Baroque violin and clog fiddle) and Jörn Boysen (harpsichord, box guitar and citer) will perform. The diverse early seventeenth century music of the church, royal court, local and the freelance musicians will be illuminated, thereby showing the origin of our well-known music repertoire.

Antoinette Lohmann studied the violin, viola and baroque violin at the Sweelinck Conservatorium (Amsterdam). She has always been active in varied musical areas and her wide-ranging experience includes tango, salon music, folk music and contemporary music. Antoinette has performed and recorded with many orchestras and ensembles all over the world. Currently her repertoire extends from the early 17th to the 21st century, but always performed on period instruments. She is fascinated by unusual instruments, such as the viola d'amore, violino piccolo and tenor violin, and enjoys exploring their repertoire. She has recorded the complete sonatas for piano and violin by Joseph Martin Kraus and Margarethe Danzi, bassoon quartets by Franz Danzi and Krommer, chamber music by Belle van Zuylen and 17th-century Dutch music. Antoinette teaches principal study Baroque violin, viola and historical documentation at the Utrecht Conservatorium and the Conservatorium (Amsterdam).

Conductor and composer Jörn Boysen was born in Lübeck (Germany). After his studies at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, he went to the Netherlands where he studied harpsichord with Tini Mathot and Ton Koopman at the Royal Conservatory (The Hague). As founder and director of Musica Poetica he regularly performs in the Netherlands, France and Russia as guest conductor, soloist or continuo player. Boysen conducted productions of the O.T. Opera Rotterdam, the Utrechtse Spelen and Opéra Mosset. In addition, Boysen has composed various orchestral, chamber and vocal works and music for harpsichord. Boysen’s works have been commissioned and performed by Musica Poetica, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado (USA), Pratum Integrum (RU), Berlin Philharmonics (D) and the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague (NL), amongst others. Apart from his work as a performer, Boysen works as a repetitor at the Utrecht Conservatory and artistic director of concert organisation Musica Antica da Camera (The Hague).

Furor Musicus (with Antoinette and Jörn) was founded by Antoinette in 2008. The ensemble is primarily devoted to performing and recording little-known 17th- and 18th-century repertoire on period instruments and carrying out the necessary historical research. The name Furor Musicus derives from the term Furor Poeticus, a Latin expression often used to refer to poetic inspiration in ancient Greek and Roman literature. The word ‘furor’ refers to a state of intense excitement, in some cases even bordering on madness. The term Furor Poeticus refers to the capacity to be inspired and inspire others.

PROGRAMME
A non-canonic programme…

  • La Orlandina - Symfonia per un violino ò cornetto e basso se piace from Affetti Musicali, opera prima
  • The church musician…
    Johann Erasmus Kindermann: Sonata Prima from Canzoni. Sonatae, una, duabus, tribus & quator violis, Pars Posterior
  • A court musician who became a monk…
    Johann Marianus Baal: Sonata for violin and continuo - Opus Primum (1677)
  • Re-establishing culture…
    Anonymous: Sonata from the music collection of Prince Bishop Karl Liechtenstein
  • Artful fiddling: Scordatura (differently tuned violin strings)…
    Nicolaes Goor: Sonata in scordatura
  • Attempt to get invited for a position at the court in Vienna…
    Ignazio Albertini: Sonata VII from XII sonata a Violino Solo (ca. 1685)
    Anonymous: Sonata (another one) from the music collection of Prince Bishop Karl Liechtenstein
  • Music for having fun at home…
    Anonymous: Feltstuck van den Comoran in Ungarn from ‘t Uitnemend Kabinet
  • A farmer fiddler versus a real violin player…
    Johann Fischer: Suite - Unterschied zwischen einem rechten Violinist und gemeinen Bauern - Fiedler (Difference between a real violinist and a simple farmer fiddler) from Musicalische Fürsten-Lust (1706)

ADMISSION

  • R150 (adults)
  • *R80 (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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