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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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Ben Capps (cello) & Pieter Grobler (piano)

American virtuoso cellist in concert!

 

20 August 2015

Odeion

19:30

 

Exciting young American cellist Ben Capps enjoys a versatile performing career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral principal.  His artistry has been praised as “most appealing” by the New York Times, “virtuosic and impassioned” by the Barre Montpelier Times.  The Holland Times hailed Capps as a “young cello phenomenon from New York” with “dazzling technique and a fearsomely meaty tone”, and the Epoch Times proclaimed that “Capps has it all ... cello playing of the very highest standard.” 

 

Ben started playing the cello at age four with Nellis DeLay.  At ten he was admitted to Juilliard Pre-College, where he studied with Anne Alton, Andre Emelianoff, and modern cello guru Fred Sherry.  He received a BMus degree at Manhattan School of Music, and an MMus from Juilliard (2010), both under the guidance of David Soyer.  He is currently enrolled in the Graduate Diploma program at New England Conservatory (Boston), where he is a student of Laurence Lesser.  He is the recipient of many awards, including the New York State Association of Music Teachers Scholarship Competition (1999); Juilliard Pre-College Symphony Concerto Competition (2001), the Lillian Fuchs Award (2004), the Francis Goelet Scholarship (Juilliard, 2008-2009), the Irving Mulde Scholarship (Juilliard, 2009-10), and the Piatigorsky Scholarship (New England Conservatory, 2012-13).  He has coached with numerous cellists, including Bernard Greenhouse, Ko Iwasaki, Paul Katz, and Nathanial Rosen, has performed in masterclasses for Steven Isserlis, Alexander Rudin, Mischa Maisky, Natalia Gutman, Peter Wylie, Timothy Eddy, Matt Haimowitz and Jonathan Biss. He has performed at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Mann Hall in Tel Aviv and Sala Nezahualcoytl in Mexico City.  He has appeared as soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, the New York Concerti Sinfonietta, the Manchester Music Festival Orchestra and the Manhattan School of Music Composer's Orchestra.  Recent performance highlights include a recital tour of China and recital appearances in New York, Greece and Spain.  Highlights of the 2013 season include solo performances of the Schumann Cello Concerto with the Danbury Symphony & The Liora Chamber Orchestra and Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra Filarmonica de Jalisco.  At age 21, Capps was appointed principal cellist of Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas.  An avid chamber musician, he has participated in the Bowdoin Schlern Int'l (Italy), Burgos Int'l (Spain) and Summit Summer Festivals, the Perlman Music Program, and the ChamberFest and FOCUS! Festivals in Lincoln Center. Ben Capps plays a William Forester cello built in 1782 in England.

 

Pieter Grobler worked with Joseph Stanford at the University of Pretoria obtaining BMus and BMusHons degrees in piano performance (cum laude).  Postgraduate studies were with Joseph Banowetz at the University of North Texas (USA), where he completed the MMus and DMA piano performance degrees.  His training was further enriched through masterclasses from Leonard Hokanson, Andrzej Jasinski, Pascal Rogé and Niel Immelman, to name but a few.  During the 2003 Unisa/Vodacom National Piano Competition he was awarded the Bill van Tonder Prize.  In August 2013 he was also heard on WFMT-Classical Radio in a live broadcast from the Preston Bradley Hall as part of the International Music Foundation's Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago (USA).  He is also regularly heard on ClassicFM radio in South Africa.  After completion of his studies he worked for three years in Ohio where he was on the piano faculty of Heidelberg College. Pieter is currently on the piano faculty at the University of Stellenboschwhere he is also the head of practical music studies and maintains an active concert schedule.

 

PROGRAMME

Britten: Cello Suite No. 1, Op. 72

Debussy: Sonata (1915)

Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise Brillante in C major, Op. 3 

Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 58

 

ADMISSION

R130 (adults)

R90 (pensioners)

R70 (UFS staff)

R50 (students and learners)

R50 (group bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket.

 

ENQUIRIES

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 – 401 2504)

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