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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

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


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Piet Koornhof – Violin Recital

with Nicol Viljoen (piano)
Thursday, 25 October
Odeion
19:30

Violinist, Piet Koornhof, is well known in South Africa and has also performed in Europe, Israel, the USA, Russia, Singapore and New Zealand. He is founder member of both the Potch Trio and the South African Chamber Music Society. His teachers include Susan Sauerman, Alan Solomon (South Africa) and Dorothy DeLay (Juilliard School of Music - New York). He also studied at the Aspen School of Music (Colorado) where he received master classes from Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman and Sergiu Luca. He received his M.Mus. and D.Mus. degrees from the University of North West and is currently associate professor at the University of North West.

Nicol Viljoen, associate professor and Head of the Odeion School of Music, is the foremost expert of Schenkerian analysis in South Africa. His exceptionally versatile activities as music theorist, concert pianist, chamber musician, jazz pianist and academic have greatly contributed to an inclusive vision of music study at the UFS. During 2003 Nicol produced the compact disc Franz Schubert/Johannes Brahms (Unfoldings UCD001) together with the violist John Wille. In 2011 he produced his second compact disc, Transcendental Schubert, on the Mukavi label.

Programme:
Mozart – Sonata in B-flat major, K.454
Beethoven – Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96
Brahms – Sonata in A major, Op. 100

Admission:
R100 (adults), R60 (pensioners, students and learners)
R40 (group bookings of 10+)
Tickets available at Computicket.

Enquiries:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)
 

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