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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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OSM Dean’s Concert

Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Odeion
19:30

The OSM annually hosts a special Dean’s Concert where top students of the OSM perform.

The first half of the programme will include performances by OSM students, the Odeion String Quartet together with the Junior Odeion String Quartet as well as the Odeion Choir.  The second half of the programme will consist of the OSM Camerata performing under the baton of conductor Jan Moritz Onken.  Jan Moritz Onken, has been appointed as chief conductor of the OSMC for the second season of 2013 and will  prepare the OSMC for their participation at the 13th International Conservatory Festival in St Petersburg in November this year.

ADMISSION:

R110 (adults)

R70 (pensioners)

R40 (students and learners

 R40 (group booking of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket. 

All concert proceeds go towards the St Petersburg fund for the OSM Camerata’s visit to Russia.

ENQUIRIES:    

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

13th International Conservatory Festival

After  a  successful  audition  the  OSMC  received an  invitation  to  participate  in  the  13th International Conservatory Festival which  will  take place in St Petersburg Russia from the 1st to the 9th of November 2013. The festival is a yearly highlight on the concert calendar of the prestigious Rimsky Korsakov Conservatoire.  It is the first time in history that an orchestra from Africa is invited to partake in this festival.            

The artistic panel of the festival under the auspices of Prof Lydia Volchek annually selects ten  conservatories  internationally  (in  the  likes of the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (Moscow), Conservatoire de Paris, Eastman School of Music NY and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki Finland  to  name  but  a  few)  to  gather  in  St  Petersburg  for  the  festival.  The rector of the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatoire, Prof Mikhail Gantvarg stated that it will be the first school of music hailing from Africa to participate in the festival ever.  The OSMC was requested to give two recitals of 40 minutes each during the festival. Maestro Jan Moritz Onken will lead the ensemble to St Petersburg; OSMC members will have the opportunity to attend all concerts presented by fellow participants and master classes presented by the masters of St Petersburg Conservatoire.

The festival is usually opened and closed with a grand concert presented by the St. Petersburg Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra (70 plus members). Last year the opening concert was conducted by the celebrated master, Valery Gergiev (artistic director of the Mariinsky Opera and Symphony Orchestra) while the closing ceremony was conducted by Semyon Bychkov. Both Gergiev and Bychkov are alumni of the St Petersburg Conservatoire.

The OSMC will recite a programme of mainly South African composers, with two new works commissioned by the OSM New Music Initiative from the prolific South African composer, Hendrik Hofmeyr, entitled Notturno Elegiaco and Phantom Waltz.  Phantom Waltz is a challenging work where musicians simultaneously play, sing and speak. A reworked edition for chamber orchestra of the original string quartet for piano and soprano, Lieder op Boesmanverse, by revered South African composer, Stefans Grové will also be performed. To commemorate the centenary of composer Benjamin Britten this year, Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt is also included in the programme.

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