THE Stellenbosch Conservatorium Concert Series will host the Stellenbosch University Symphonic Wind Ensemble in a performance of wonderfully varied repertoire on Saturday 19 September at 20:00 in the Endler Hall.
The Ensemble will be conducted by their resident conductor, Pamela Kierman, who is a well known French Horn player and Brass lecturer at the University’s Music Department.
This feast of wind band showstoppers will be complimented by a performance of beautiful Mendelssohn choral excerpts sung by the City of Tygerberg Choir under the baton of both Rudolf de Beer and Peter Roux.
The Choir and Wind Ensemble will then combine in a medley of traditional hymns including the Festival Sanctus and Lead on, O King Eternal.
The first half of the concert will feature the South African première of the Friedrich Gulda cello concerto, featuring the respected local cellist, Peter Martens.
Martens has recently joined the Stellenbosch University Music Department after seven years as principal cellist of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra.
Friedrich Gulda, one of Austria’s most celebrated and versatile musicians of the last century, wrote this most interesting concerto for Heinrich Schiff, who performed the world première with the Vienna Philharmonic in the 1980s with Gulda himself on the podium.
Tickets (R90/R70) are available at the door as well as Computicket on 083-915-8000 or www.computicket.com, or Checkers, Shoprite.
