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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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Ben Schoeman Piano Recital

Ben Schoeman Piano Recital
24 August 2017
Odeion
19:30

The South African pianist Ben Schoeman has won major prizes, including the first grand prize in the 11th UNISA Vodacom International Piano Competition (Pretoria, 2008), first prize and gold medal in the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition (London, 2009), the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music (2011), the KykNet Fiesta (2012) and the Contemporary Music Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition (USA, 2013). In 2016, he was awarded the Huberte Rupert Prize of the South African Academy of Arts and Sciences for his contribution to music in his native country.

He has given solo, chamber music and concerto performances throughout Europe, Canada, the USA and South Africa in such prestigious concert halls as the Wigmore, Barbican, Cadogan and Queen Elizabeth Halls (London), the Konzerthaus (Berlin), the Gulbenkian Auditorium (Lisbon), Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, the Cape Town City Hall and the Romanian Athenaeum (Bucharest). He has recently appeared as soloist in Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand and Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall (London). His critically-acclaimed renditions of Liszt’s Piano Concertos No. 1 and 2 with the CPO are frequently broadcast on South African national television. He has collaborated with numerous conductors, including Nicholas Cleobury, Carlos Izcaray, James Judd, Gérard Korsten, Theodore Kuchar, Diego Masson, En Shao, Yasuo Shinozaki and Conrad van Alphen.

In collaboration with his duo partner, cellist Anzél Gerber, Ben was awarded the first prize in the Ibla Grand Prize Competition (Italy). The duo performed at Carnegie Hall (New York) and has received the gold medal in the Global Music Awards for their recording of music by Anton Rubinstein.

Ben studied at the University of Pretoria, the International Piano Academy (Imola), the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. His teachers include Michel Dalberto, Louis Lortie, Ronan O’Hora, Boris Petrushansky, Joseph Stanford and Eliso Virsaladze. In 2016 he obtained a doctorate in music from City, University of London and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. His solo album, featuring works of Franz Liszt, has been released by TwoPianists Records and is distributed worldwide through Naxos Global. He is a Steinway Artist.

PROGRAMME:

Johann Sebastian Bach/Ferruccio Busoni
Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BV B 27/5)

Robert Schumann
Kreisleriana, Op. 16

Zoltán Kodály
Dances of Marosszék (1927)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsk, transcr. Mikhail Pletnev
Concert Suite from 'The Nutcracker', Op. 71 

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sonata No. 2 in B flat-minor, Op. 36 (1931 version)

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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