The music conjured up the image of a vast, sweeping vista. We ascended above...
CYBER SUMMER FESTIVAL CONCERT 1 Recorded at Cape Town City Hall on January 20, 2022 Streamed February 17 – 24, 2022 Conductor Bernhard Gueller Soloists David Juritz (violin) Zorada Temmingh (organ)...
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De Vries had mastery over a tricky instrument. She managed the rapid changes in mallets well, coordinating four at a time. CYBER SUMMER FESTIVAL CONCERT 2 Recorded at Cape Town City Hall on January...
View ArticleSisa Mgauli
Since 2015, Sisa Mgauli has been playing as an orchestral musician both the CPO and the KZNPO, where he was a member of the first violins from 2019 for two years until he came back to Cape Town. But...
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Petrus de Beer, a classically trained violinist, holds an MMus from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama which he obtained after winning an international scholarship. Piet, who studied with...
View ArticleMESSIAH IN PAARL April 16 at 16:00
Given that there are always performances of Messiah at this time of year, Cape Town Opera’s Artistic Director Magdalene Minnaar comments, “We thought long and hard about this and realised that the...
View ArticleStephan Galvin
Stephan Galvin, who joined the CPO as timpanist in 2022, has been an ad hoc percussionist and timpanist with the CPO for more for than 10 years, and a CP Youth Orchestra percussion and timpani coach...
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Thursday, June 2 Cape Town City Hall 20:00 LEO’S RACHMANINOV Conductor: Bernhard Gueller Piano: Leo Gevisser Schubert Rosamunde Entr’act No. 3 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40...
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Thursday, June 9 Cape Town City Hall 20:00 MAGNIFICENT MOZART Conductor: Bernhard Gueller Viola: Suzanne Martens, violin, Petrus Coetzee Mozart Don Giovanni Overture Mozart Sinfonia Concertante...
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Thursday, June 16 Cape Town City Hall 20:00 CELEBRATING YOUTH Conductor: Bernhard Gueller Piano: Ben Schoeman With CPYO: Elgar Pomo and Circumstance No 1. De Falla Scenes and Dances from Part 1 of...
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Thursday, June 23 Cape Town City Hall 20:00 PROKOFIEV AND SIBELIUS Conductor: Robert Moody Piano: Bryan Wallick Brahms Academic Festival Overture Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 26 Sibelius...
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Thursday, June 30 Cape Town City Hall 20:00 ORGAN VIBES Conductor: Robert Moody Organ: James Jones Dvorak Carnival Overture Poulenc Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings in G minor, FP 93...
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Bernhard Gueller will be on the podium for the first three concerts; American conductor Robert Moody, finally able to conduct two concerts originally planned for 2020, will conduct two. Soloists are...
View ArticleTHE WIND ENSEMBLE’S DEBUT IS MAKING (SOUND) WAVES
The MC will be radio personality Waldo Buckle who will introduce the programme which includes a curtainraiser by the Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble which will perform Poet and Peasant...
View ArticleCAPE TOWN PHILHARMONIC WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT May 12
The official launch concert of the Cape Town Philharmonic Wind Ensemble (CPWE) takes place under the direction of wind band specialist Faan Malan at Artscape Opera House on May 12 at 19:30. MC will be...
View ArticleDUET GALA AT ARTSCAPE OPERA JUNE 11
Embracing arias and orchestral pieces from Bizet and Charpentier to Mozart, Verdi and Wagner, the programme will showcase some of the most beautiful works ever written from the Polonaise and Lensky’s...
View ArticleDUET GALA CONCERT AT ARTSCAPE ON JUNE 11
The dazzling Duet Gala Concert is back! After a Covid-enforced break of two years, Cape Town Opera (CTO) and the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) are thrilled to announce this one-night-only...
View ArticlePetrus de Beer
Petrus de Beer, a classically trained violinist, holds an MMus from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama which he obtained after winning an international scholarship. Piet, who studied with...
View ArticleMESSIAH IN PAARL April 16 at 16:00
Given that there are always performances of Messiah at this time of year, Cape Town Opera’s Artistic Director Magdalene Minnaar comments, “We thought long and hard about this and realised that the...
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