About Us	Search	Advertising

	Brought to you by:

THE five-concert Cape Town Concert Series Second Season 2008 opens on Saturday, July 26, with a performance by the charismatic Hungarian pianist Libor Novacek, acclaimed as a major talent by such world-leading magazines as Gramophone for his awarding-winning CD recordings.

His programme, of works by Haydn, Brahms and Liszt, includes the latter composer's first book of Années de Pèlerinage, the not-often performed works from the composer's travels in Switzerland with the beautiful Comtesse d'Agoult.

The Cape Town Concert Series then proudly presents, on August 23, the debut performance in Cape Town of the newly reconstituted Odeion String Quartet.

Consisting of some of the country's leading string players such as Denise Sutton and Sharon de Kock (violins), Jeanne-Louise Moolman (viola) and Anmari van der Westhuizen (cello) to name but a few - this stellar group will perform works by Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms.

Brilliant violinist
September 23 sees the appearance of the brilliant violinist Daniel Rowland (British-born and Netherlands-raised) partnered by leading South African and American trained pianist Pieter Jacobs, in a programme of Mozart, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Chausson and Saint-Saens.

The penultimate recital features the Chinese pianist Chun Wang, Third Prize winner of the recently held UNISA Vodacom International Piano Competition in Pretoria.

Wang was also awarded the Marc Raubenheimer Prize for one of the finest recitals performed at that competition and his win in Pretoria follows his great successes at both the Villa-Lobos International Piano Competition in Sao Paulo and the Hammamatsu Competition in Japan.

This 18-year-old wunderkind will play works by Mozart, Chopin, Albeniz and Prokofiev in his recital on October 18. Kai Vogler (violin) and Peter Bruns (cello), founders of the famed Schloss Moritzburg Chamber Music Festival are joined by Pieter Schoeman (piano), the first-ever South African winner of the UNISA Vodacom International Piano Competition, recently in its eleventh edition.

All concerts will be performed at the Baxter Concert Hall, Rondebosch, at 20:00.

Book for concerts at Computicket or buy tickets from the theatre's box office.

	Back to top
© Tel. (021) 853-0211 Fax. (021) 853-0234 2003 Somerset Press (Pty) Ltd on all information and photographs.