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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

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Free

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The Art of Romanticism

Samson Diamond & Laura Pauna in concert

19 November 2015

Odeion

19:30

 

Samson Diamond – concert master of the FSSO and leader of the Odeion String Quartet - performs with pianist Laura Pauna in an exciting programme titled The Art of Romanticism with works by Khachaturian, Ysaÿa, Lekeu, Ravel and Strauss. 

 

Samson is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK), where he obtained his BMusHons degree First Class (2006) and MMus performance degree with distinction (2007). He got his first taste of music in Soweto where he studied with founder director of Buskaid, Rosemary Nalden and further on with Richard Ireland, Pauline Nobes and Philippe Graffin. Samson won numerous prizes including the 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist for Music, the Charles Hallé Award, the RNCM Eric Nicholson Bow Prize, the RNCM Major Entrance Award, Edward Heaton Scholarshp, the RNCM Philip Newman Violin Prize, and appeared in the 2010 publication of Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans: Arts and Culture.

 

As a freelance orchestral player in the UK, he played in the Hallé Orchestra, the Academy of St Martins in the Fields, BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata, and the Academy of Ancient Music. Diamond was leader of the internationally acclaimed Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble from its inception in 1997.   Samson has performed before many distinguished guests including Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. In 2009, he performed privately for Mr Nelson Mandela under the invitation of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. He has received quartet masterclasses from internationally acclaimed chamber musicians such as Andras Keller, Johannes Meissl, Christoph Richter, Seppo Kimanen, Roger Tapping, Vladimir Mendelssohn, members of the Endellion String Quartet and The New Zealand String Quartet.  He plays a fine 1803 Wagner violin.

 

South African/Romanian pianist Laura Pauna has established herself internationally as soloist and chamber musician. She was awarded a Master’s in Performance Diploma from the prestigious Hannover Music Conservatoire (Germany). In Germany she studied under Prof Einar–Steen Nokleberg and the Silver Garburg Duo.

 

As duo pianist she has performed at many prestigious venues.  Carnegie Hall have had rave reviews ("...lavish, enthusiastic, brilliant"); Laura has also performed  at the Salzburg Grosse Saal, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Jerusalem Theatre, Yasi (New York), Zagreb Institute Hall, Z.K. Matthews Hall, Cape Town City Hall, to name a few.

 

Competition prizes and scholarships include 1st Prize in the Grieg Competition, "Prix de Oslo" in 2007 and again in 2009. IBLA Grand Prize winner (2006), Valentino Bucchi (Rome, 2006), and the Mozarteum Prize in 2007.

 

Laura is also the recipient of the National Arts Council scholarship 2009, Ottilie-Selbach Stiftung (Berlin, Germany), and the Oscar und Vera Ritter Stiftung (Germany).   She has performed with orchestras such as Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, Cape Town Philharmonic, KZNPO, Pro Musica et al, and at series such as the Piano Fortissimo series (Croatia), Piano Duo Festival Bad Herrenalb, Oslo Grieg Festival, UNISA Concert Series, and the Johannesburg Music Society concert series. Laura had her solo debut in 2011 at the Bucharest Music & Film Festival.

 

Programme

Khachaturian: (1961) Andante from piano solo sonata

Lekeu: Sonata for violin in G

Ravel: Tzigane

Ysaye: Sonata No.3 for solo violin Op. 27 in D minor “Ballade”

Strauss: Sonata for violin in E flat major Op. 18

 

Admission

R110 (adults), R70 (pensioners), R60 (UFS staff), R40 (students and learners), R40 (group bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket.

 

Enquiries

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

 

 

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