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Maria Kliegel & Albie van Schalkwyk
2018-09-28

CELLO RECITAL

28 September 2018

Odeion

19:30


WORLD-RENOWNED GERMAN VIRTUOSO CELLIST!

“She has at her disposal all the necessary attributes: a fantastically light, yet not perfectionistically moribund technique, entrancing intensity, glamorous and nonetheless endearing charisma.”- Der Tagesspiegel / Berlin

After studying with Janos Starker at Indiana University in Bloomington (USA), Maria Kliegel won, amongst others, the First Grand Prix of the Concours Rostropowitsch Paris (1981). Mstislav Rostropowitsch thereupon engaged the services of his prize winner as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France for several tours through France and invited her to his orchestra in Washington D.C. He became one of her most important mentors.

Maria Kliegel – La Cellissima – since then an artist in demand throughout the world - started an unusually successful record career on the Naxos label in 1991 alongside her stage triumphs. In this way, her recording of Dvorak's and Elgar's cello concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London has been maintaining its success as a bestseller for many years now. Frequent honours followed, including two Grammy nominations. In the meantime, Maria Kliegel leads the market in cello literature with some one million CDs sold throughout the world.

In her multimedia book and DVD project Schott Masterclass – Cello: Mit Technik und Fantasie zum künstlerischen Ausdruck about cello techniques and “famous – infamous” passages (played and analysed) published in 2006, she pursues completely new paths. This was the starting point for the production of the English version Cello – Masterclass Using Technique and Imagination to achieve Artistic Expression, released on the Naxos label in 2010.

Contemporary composers like to dedicate their works to the cellist. Wilhelm Kaiser Lindemann, for example, composed on her request Hommage á Nelson Mandela for cello and percussion. After the première of this work in Cape Town (1997), President Mandela reacted profoundly emotionally by inviting the artist to a private concert in his residence.

Since 1986 she has been professor at the Cologne Academy of Music and in 2001 established with Ida Bieler (violin) and Nina Tichman (piano) the Xyrion Trio, which undertook the artistic supervision of the Andernach Music Festival at Namedy Castle in 2007.

Maria Kliegel plays a cello made by Carlo Tononi, Venice ca. 1730.

Albie van Schalkwyk is not only a solo performer in his own right, but is also one of the leading chamber musicians and vocal accompanists in South Africa. In his distinguished career, he won both the UNISA Overseas Scholarship and first prize in the SABC Piano Competition. Besides performing as a piano soloist and with orchestras, he has given masterclasses for singers and accompanists and served as music producer and official accompanist for the SABC. In 2009 he was appointed Associate Professor in Piano and Chamber Music at the College of Music, University of Cape Town. In the same year, the South African Academy of Arts and Science awarded him the Huberte Rupert Prize for his contribution to ensemble playing and teaching. He has also been a member of several well-known SA ensembles, notably the Songmakers Guild which gives younger performers opportunities to appear in song recitals.

PROGRAMME

  • Respighi – Adagio con variazioni
  • Beethoven – Sonata for violoncello and piano No. 4 in C major, Op. 102, No. 1
  • Debussy – Sonata in D minor (1915)
  • Chopin – Sonata for violoncello and piano in G minor, Op. 65

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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Nöthling Strydom Duo

Nöthling Strydom Duo

7 September 2017

Odeion

19:30

South African musicians, clarinetist Danrè Strydom and pianist Grethe Nöthling has started a fresh and very exciting collaboration. After recently returning from several years abroad, these two young musicians aim to provide audiences with exhilarating performances of not only well-known and loved repertoire, but also of more underplayed and unknown repertoire.


Danrè Strydom

“...first-class performer and an impressive artist. Her total involvement with the music and unique ability to communicate makes her a very compelling player.”

“Her solo work was incredibly memorable....played with a lot of personality and refinement...”

Buffet-Crampon, the world-renowned instrument manufacturing company, has recently added Odeion School of Music woodwind lecturer Danrè Strydom to their select list of prestigious artists. Hailed as the “Steinway” of clarinet manufacturers, Buffet has selected Danrè as the first South African ambassador for the brand.

Danrè has been performing on Buffet clarinets since age twelve. She received her formative musical education at the Windhoek Conservatoire, before completing her undergraduate degree under the tutelage of Heinrich Armer at the University of the Free State. Her playing then won her several prestigious scholarships for overseas studies. She began her postgraduate studies at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where she worked with famous clarinetists Eli Eban and Eric Hoeprich. Further studies in Belgium with Eddy van Oosthuyse resulted in two separate Master’s Degrees in Clarinet – and Bass Clarinet Performance from the Royal Conservatory (Ghent University).

Except for winning various national competitions (Namibia) as a young musician, she has won numerous awards and scholarships, including the R. Muller Award for highest achievements in music and academics, the FAK music award, ATKV Cultural Diversity Award and the Old Presidency Award. During 2016 she was selected as the South African Chair of the International Clarinet Association.

Strydom has appeared globally as a concerto soloist with several renowned orchestras. As an avid chamber musician, she has performed with various musicians throughout Europe, including major tours to France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands. Besides currently serving as principal clarinetist for the Free State Symphony Orchestra, she was a member of the esteemed Brussels Philharmonic (2009 – 2013). The spell with the Brussels Philharmonic included an Academy Award for the soundtrack to the motion picture “The Artist”.

Principal clarinetist of the Brussels Philharmonic, Eddy van Oosthuyse, describes her as “a remarkably talented and deeply motivated musician... who has established herself as a premier solo, chamber and orchestral musician through her global concert experience.”

Danrè is currently clarinet and saxophone lecturer at the OSM.


Grethe Nöthling

“..one performance was enough to win the hearts of music lovers..”

“Nöthling impresses as pianist with gravitas”

Grethe Nöthling started her musical career at age five. At age seven she made her musical debut performing as soloist with the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra. She won several national music competitions, awards and bursaries including the Sanlam Music Competition (1994), ABSA National Music Competition (Piano Category, 1998), ATKV Prelude Competition (2000), Hennie Joubert National Piano Competition (2000), Lionel Bowman Beethoven Competition (2001) and UNISA Overseas Scholarship for Teachers (2003).

She has been a soloist with major orchestras in the country between 1989 and 2005 including the Cape Town Philharmonic, KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic and the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa.

Between 2001 and 2004 she completed a Bachelors of Music (cum laude) at the University of Pretoria under Ella Fourie and Joseph Stanford. In 2006 she continued her studies abroad. She completed her Master’s of Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music (2008) and Doctorate of Musical Arts (2014) at the University of Iowa (US). Her teachers included Daniel Shapiro (CIM), Paul Schenly (CIM) and Uriel Tsachor (UIowa). In addition, she has received masterclasses from well-known piano pedagogues including Andrzej Jasinski, Lionel Bowman, Frank Heneghan, Joseph Banowetz, Adam Wodnicki, Eric Larsen, Enrico Elisi, Rebecca Penneys, Christopher Harding and Sean Duggan.

During her studies at the University of Iowa she was appointed as teaching assistant for three years. In addition to that she was the pianist for the University of Iowa’s New Music Ensemble during 2012, directed by composition professor David Gompper at the University of Iowa. The ensemble performed at several different universities in the United States, including the University of Minneapolis and the University of Kansas.

Grethe is also an avid chamber musician and has performed with guest artists and faculty of the University of Iowa, including Nicole Esposito, Anthony Arnone, Melissa Kraut, Larry Stomberg and Sarah Frisof.

In 2015 she returned to South Africa and in 2016 she was appointed as principal piano lecturer at the OSM.

Programme

  • J. Brahms Clarinet Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Op. 120 Nr. 1
  • R. Schumann Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano Op. 73
  • L. Bernstein Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
  • N. Burgmüller Duo for Clarinet and Piano Op. 15
  • M. Arnold Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano

Admission

  • R110 (adults)
  • *R70 (pensioners)
  • *R60 (UFS staff)
  • *R40 (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 door 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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