Chamber music recital
2005-12-14
AT the beginning of January two musicians from Amsterdam and Pretoria, Anne-Bartje Fontein (viola) and Mareli Stolp (piano) will be giving chamber music recitals in the Western Cape, from Franschhoek to Mossel Bay.
Both women have ties with South Africa and they are very keen to perform in this part of our country.
The programme will include pieces by Debussy, Schumann, Schubert and Bach - music that will appeal to the audience!
On Thursday 5 January they will be playing at the DR Church in Franschhoek. Other performances will take place in Bredasdorp, Napier, Greyton and Mossel Bay.
Anne-Bartje was eight years old when she started her violin studies with Coosje Wijzenbeek, the leading violin teacher of young people in the Netherlands.
She did summer courses in the United States and Switzerland and reached the finals of the Herman Krebbers Com-petition in Holland.
At the age of 18 she decided to change from the violin to the viola.
She finished at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam in 2003 and at the moment she is in her last year of the “Advanced Programme” at the same Conservatorium (a student of Nobuko Imai), this is also where she and Mareli met.
Anne-Bartje was for five years the violist of the Quartetto Sabato, which won a second prize at the Charles Hennen Competition in Maastricht (1996).
While at the Conservatorium she was a member of the Netherlands National Youth Orchestra.
Over the last years she has also substituted in prominent Dutch Orchestras: the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Residentie Orchestra and most recently the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Anne-Bartje got to know Franschhoek well when her parents emigrated to South Africa/Franschhoek in 2000 (they now live in Bredasdorp).
Mareli was born and bred in South Africa, in Pretoria she completed her Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Music Honours degrees, both cum laude.
In South Africa she was the recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships, the Unisa South African Music Study Scholarship, the Vladimir Viardo Prize, the Samro Prize and the Pretorium Trust Music Scholarships in 2002 and 2003.
She competed in the Adillia Alieva International Piano Competition in Gaillard, France (semi-final round) and studied and followed masterclasses in the United States and in the Czech Republic.
At present she is continuing her studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, a student of Hakon Austbo.
She also participates in numerous projects and works with several ensembles including the New Opera Academy (Amsterdam).
Mareli has a “local connection”: she is second cousin to Charlotte Daneel of “La Grange”.
The recital at the DR Church in Huguenot Road will start at 19:00.
Tickets are R60 pp, which includes wine and a small snack after the concert. More information and ticket sales at the DR Church Office (876-2431), “La Grange” (876-2155) and the Franschhoek Tourist Bureau (876-3603).
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