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Odeion Sinfonia Concert
2018-09-16

- In memory of Prof Derek Ochse -

with conductor Anmari van der Westhuizen & soloist Danielle Ceronio (saxophone)

16 September 2018

Odeion

16:00

This Odeion Sinfonia is a string only orchestra housed in the Odeion School of Music comprising string students studying at the OSM and string members of the Free State Youth Orchestra. The orchestra was founded by Derek Ochse with Anmari taking over the baton during her first year of residence at the UFS and the Odeion String Quartet (2009). The principle aims of this orchestra are to provide excellent training and valuable experience in string and ensemble playing, to adequately prepare string students for orchestral playing, to present them with numerous ensemble and orchestral concert playing opportunities and to generally promote quality string and ensemble playing.

Anmari is a highly acclaimed cellist and chamber musician and has more than thirty years of experience in playing and conducting chamber music. She is Adjunct Professor and Head of the OSQ. She graduated from the Stellenbosch University (BMusHons, cum laude), from the Mozarteum, Salzburg (Grosses Diplom, cum laude), and from the Hochschule für Musik (Cologne) under the tutelage of Prof Maria Kliegel (Konzertexamen). Anmari has won prestigious competitions and has had extensive chamber music training by members of the world's best string quartets like the Alban Berg String Quartet, the Amadeus String Quartet, the Borodin String Quartet, the Brodsky String Quartet and the Hagen String Quartet. She performed as a chamber musician and soloist in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Faroe Islands, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Anmari has made several CD recordings, and both her solo CDs with Ilse Schumann received excellent reviews in South Africa and in Austria. She was the conductor / director of the UCT String Ensemble for ten years and is currently the conductor of the Odeion Sinfonia and co-conductor of the Free State Youth Orchestra.

The programme will include the following works:

  • GF Handel - Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 1
  • R Vaughan Williams - Concerto Grosso
  • N Stockton - Passacaglia for saxophone/horn and strings orchestra (soloist: Danielle Ceronio – saxophone)
  • P Warlock - Capriol Suite

ADMISSION
Free

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Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504) / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za


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Brandenburg String Trio

Description: Brandenburg String Trio Tags: Brandenburg String Triowith Avigail Bushakevitz (violin), Ernst-Martin Schmidt (viola) & Andrea Casarrubios (cello)
18 May 2017
Odeion
19:30

 

The Brandenburg String Trio comprises SA violinist Avigail Bushakevitz, German violist Ernst-Martin Schmidt and Spanish cellist Andrea Casarrubios.  The trio members have performed in the world's greatest halls, such as Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Royal Albert Hall (London) at the BBC Proms, Carnegie Hall (New York) and the Philharmonie (Berlin).

 

No stranger to South African audiences, violinist Avigail Bushakevitz has performed as soloist with all the major orchestras in the country and has won multiple national and international competitions including first prizes at the UNISA National Strings Competition and the UNO Competition (Jerusalem). In 2016 Avigail was named South African Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year. Together with her brother, Ammiel, she has toured South Africa, and performed in New York and various European countries. In 2014 the duo was awarded first prize in the international Spanish competition Paper de Musica de Capellades. After completing her master’s degree at the Juilliard School (New York), Avigail continued her studies in Tel Aviv. In 2013 Avigail moved to Berlin taking up her current position as a first violinist in the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin. 

 

Violist Ernst-Martin Schmidt was born in East Berlin where he first studied violin at the CPE Bach specialist music school. He completed his bachelors and master’s degrees at the Musik Hochschule Hanns Eisler (Berlin). During the final two years of studies he commenced two years' playing in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2005 he joined the viola section of the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin.

 

Cellist Andrea Casarrubios studied at the Peabody Institute (Baltimore) and at the University of Southern California. After completing her master’s, she went on to work with Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall (New York). She is also a composer with compositions premiered at illustrious venues such as Carnegie Hall. The New York Times praised her cello playing as having “traversed the palette of emotions” with “gorgeous tone and an edge-of-seat intensity”. She has won many awards and is a first prize winner of the American Fine Arts Festival International Concerto Competition 2012 and the SOR Solo String Concerto Competition 2009.

 

PROGRAMME:

Henry Purcell - Fantasia in D minor, Z. 743 (version for string trio)

Franz Schubert - String Trio in B flat major, D. 471 (unfinished)

Jean Françaix - String Trio (1933)

Gideon Klein - String Trio (1944)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  - String Trio (Divertimento) in E flat major, K.563

 

ADMISSION

R130 (adults)

*R90 (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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