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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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Anmari + Ilse in concert

Anmari van der Westhuizen (cello) & Ilse Schumann (piano)

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Odeion

19:30

Anmari van der Westhuizen is one of the most sought-after cellists in South Africa, both as soloist and chamber musician. After she obtained a BMusHons degree with cum laude at the University of Stellenbosch, she furthered her studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under Heidi Litschauer and was awarded the Grosses Konzertdiplom with distinction. At the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne she received the Konzertexamendiplom under Maria Kliegel.  During her stay in Europe from 1988 to 1996 she appeared as soloist and chamber musician in such groups as the Ensemble music-on-line, Vienna (specialized in the performance of contemporary music), Koehne String Quartet Vienna and the Wiener Streichorchester.

She also performed at international festivals in Austria, Italy and Spain. As a young musician she was the winner of several national competitions such as the ATKV Forté, SABC and the Oude Meester competitions. Anmari has made several CD recordings. From 1999 until 2008 she was the conductor and director of the UCT String Ensemble and the violoncello lecturer. She was a founding member of the UCT Trio, the Collage Ensemble and I Grandi Violoncellisti. Since 2008 she is appointed as senior lecturer and cellist of the Odeion String Quartet at the University of the Free State and since January 2013 she has been appointed Head of the String Department as well as the Odeion String Quartet.

 

Born in Cape Town, Ilse Schumann studied at the College of Music (UCT) where she received her BMus degree with distinction in 1986. In the same year she also obtained the Performers' Diplomas from UNISA and the Royal Schools of Music. She made her debut at the age of thirteen with the Capab Orchestra, and performed as soloist with the CTSO, the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. After working as vocal coach at the Artscape Opera House in Cape Town for one year, she continued her studies in Chamber Music and Lied Accompaniment at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität in Vienna (Austria). From 1990 to 2002, she was active as vocal coach at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität. At present she works as vocal coach and accompanist at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna.

She has taught masterclasses in accompaniment in Stellenbosch and piano masterclasses in Tirana (Albania), and since 2009 she teaches chamber music masterclasses in Burg Feistritz (Austria). Since living in Europe, she has performed extensively as chamber musician and Lied accompanist in most European countries, Japan, South Africa and Turkmenistan. She has given recitals with notable singers like Mimi Coertse, Walter Berry, Johan Botha, Clemens Unterreiner, Rebecca Nelsen and Hermine Haselböck. She has concertized with world class cellists such as Maria Kliegel and Robert Nagy and performed with the Ensemble Wien in the Musikverein in Vienna. She has performed as soloist with the Lyon Orchestra, Die Reihe Orchestra and the Johann Strauss Ensemble Wien.

CD-recordings of IIse Schumann with the tenor Michael Knapp, Anmari van der Westhuizen, soprano Noriko Motoyoshi and works by the Austrian composer Hannes Heher have been released. Her latest CD with tenor Robert Wagner and the Color Quartet was released in May 2013.

Admission:

R130 (adults)

R90 (pensioners)

R70 (UFS staff)

R50 (students & learners)

R50 (block booking of 10+)

Programme:

Beethoven: Sonata for cello and piano No.3 in A major, Op. 69

Schnittke: Sonata for cello and piano (1978)

Popper: Fantasy on Small Russian Songs

Rachmaninoff: Sonata for cello and piano, Op.19

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