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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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Lamont & Friends

In “All Beethoven”

16 May 2019 ~ Odeion ~ 19:30

The Odeion School of Music invites you to “Lamont & Friends” with a special all Beethoven programme.

Anneke Lamont started her career at the age of twelve years and was a pupil of Josias van der Merwe. She won the UNISA Overseas Scholarship and continued her studies in Hannover (Germany) under Arie Vardi. She was also taught by Lamar Crowson, Joseph Stanford, Albie van Schalkwyk and Madeleine Buffler. She received a PhD from the UFS in 2006. Anneke is an active performing artist, and Head of Piano studies at the OSM since July 2018. She has served on screening panels for UNISA Piano International Competitions. She has made several recordings and in collaboration with various artists; she has also performed on the national and international stage. Anneke invited the following guest musicians to join in this all Beethoven programme: Albertus Engelbrecht (tenor), Anmari van der Westhuizen (cello), Pieter Joubert (violin), Matthew Eshun (violin) and Danrè Strydom (clarinet).

Albertus Engelbrecht was appointed in opera houses of Nürnberg and Passau (Germany) for a total of seventeen years where he sang a diversity of leading roles such as Orfeo in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Ulisse in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incorronazione di Poppea (all three operas under direction of Kobie van Rensburg), Ramiro in Rossini's La Cenerentola, Duca in Verdi's Rigoletto, Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Guest contracts have taken him to Luzern (Switzerland) and Los Angeles (USA). As concert singer, he performed regularly in Berlin, Frankfurt, Mainz and Vienna. A highlight of his career was concerts of Medelssohn's Walpurgisnacht in the Teatro San Carlo (Naples, Italy). Since 2016 Mr Albertus Engelbrecht is lecturer in singing at the OSM.

Danrè Strydom has established herself as one of South Africa’s premier solo, chamber and orchestral musicians through her global concert experience. She began her musical training in Namibia and after attending the Interlochen Arts Camp (USA), she began her formal studies with Heinrich Armer (UFS). She furthered her studies at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where she worked with renowned clarinetists Eli Eban and Eric Hoeprich. She holds two master’s degrees in Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Performance from the Royal Conservatory (Ghent University) and recently completed her PhD at the OSM. Danrè studied conducting with various established conductors, including the late Chris Dowdeswell and Dirk Brosse. After playing clarinet/bass clarinet for the award-winning Brussels Philharmonic from 2009 to 2013, she accepted a position as woodwind lecturer at the OSM.

Pieter Joubert is a Gr. 11 learner at Sentraal High School and receives lessons from Francois Henkins. In 2017-8 he was chosen as the best senior string player at the Bloemfontein Eisteddfod. In 2017 he performed as soloist with the FSSO during their concerto festival. He is concertmaster of the FSYO and regularly performs with the SMA Sinfonietta. During the 2017-8 Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival, he was selected as member of the Festival Orchestra. He also took part in the Gauteng and Franschhoek Chamber Music Festivals.

Matthew Eshun is a student from Ghana studying towards a BMusHons degree in violin performance with Samson Diamond as well as Cultural Musicology at the OSM. He is currently the principal second in both the OSM Camerata and and FSYO and has received masterclasses from David Bester. He is also a research assistant at the OSM.

Anmari van der Westhuizen graduated from the University of Stellenbosch (BMusHons), from the Mozarteum, Salzburg (Grosses Diplom), and from the Hochschule für Musik (Cologne) with Maria Kliegel (Konzertexamen). In 2013 Anmari received her PhD from the University of Pretoria. She has won prestigious competitions including the ATKV Forte Competition, the SABC Competition and the Oude Meester Competition. Anmari has performed in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Faroe Islands, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

PROGRAMME

  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
    • Adelaide, Op. 46
    • Sonata in F major (Spring Sonata), Op. 24 No. 5
    • Sonata in A minor, Op. 23 No. 4
    • Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
    • Clarinet Trio in B flat major, Op. 11
    • Rondo e capriccio Op. 129 for piano

ADMISSION

  • R130 (adults)
  • *R70 (pensioners)
  • *R70 (UFS staff)
  • *R50 (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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