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Aug 2017
The SAMA nominated Cape Town Tango Ensemble is the only established Tango Ensemble in South Africa which specializes in the Argentinean Tango, covering various styles withing this genre, ranging from the old fashioned traditional tango style from the first half of 20th century to the Tango “Nuevo” synonymous to the famous Argentinean composer and Bandoneón virtuoso Astor Piazzolla.
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One of the finest young cellists of his generation and winner of the 2012 TONALi Grand Prix in Hamburg, Alexey Stadler’s 2016/17 season sees him appear in a number of high level engagements across Europe, performing with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Athens State Orchestra, Riga Sinfonietta and Dalasinfoniettan. He will be the Haydn Orchestra’s soloist on tour in Germany and Italy. Chamber music recitals lead him to the Mariinsky Theatre and the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad.
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Due to family illness, Christopher Park is unable to come to South Africa as planned, however violin partner Amalia Hall, concertmaster of Orchestra Wellington has stepped in to fill the evening with a wonderful programme of sonatas for violin and piano. She will be partnered by Portuguese-South African pianist Jose Dias.
Find out moreNov 2017
With more than 95 million YouTube views and some 195,000 subscribers to her channel, Valentina Lisitsa is one of the most watched classical musicians on the internet, using digital innovation to champion classical music and performance. Impressed by her YouTube success, the Royal Albert Hall, in an unprecedented step, opened its doors for Valentina’s London debut on 19 June 2012. That concert, recorded and filmed by Decca Classics, became her first release on the label; it was also Google’s first-ever live HD stream.
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Following on from the UCT Summer School’s Magic of Mozart, the Cape Town Concert Series opens its 2018 season with a concert of Mozart focussing on wind ensembles, vocal and choral music. This music is not often featured on the concert series stage and the performers will include a number of rising stars amongst the young music professionals including Sally Minter, Stephanie Lawrenson, Pearl Jung, Johan Ferreira, Visser Liebenberg, Charl van de Merwe, Shannon Thebus, Sigrid Ceunen, Caron Tremble & VOX Cape Town.
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Described in the New York Concert Review – ‘Mr. Röhn combined technical wizardry, melting musicality, old-world style and panache, and a fair amount of historic edification in his comments, all woven seamlessly together into an utterly perfect evening… Daniel Röhn’s easy and elegant mastery, always with beauty of sound, purity of intonation, and elasticity of phrase was captivating.’ He will join forces with François du Toit for an evening of violin and piano magic.
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The Signum Quartet has appeared at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, at the Berliner Philharmonie, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Philharmonie Essen and the Beethoven-Haus Bonn and has been invited to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival of Music, the BBC Proms and the Festival Aix-en-Provence.
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