Sir Roger Norrington, a leading light on the classical music scene for almost 50 years, will conduct the Zurich Chamber Orchestra with celebrated South African clarinetist Robert Pickup as soloist in Johannesburg and Cape Town in January 2013. In a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity selected members of the South African National Youth Orchestra will join them on their tour.
Sir Roger is an expert in historically informed orchestral playing, in which he seeks to put modern players in touch with the historical style of the music they are performing. He has built up a reputation with this approach, his breakthrough coming with London Classical Players in the 1980s. He is a frequent guest with many of the world’s major orchestras – the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic,
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Sir Roger Norrington, a leading light on the classical music scene for almost 50 years, will conduct the Zurich Chamber Orchestra with celebrated South African clarinetist Robert Pickup as soloist in Johannesburg and Cape Town in January 2013. In a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity selected members of the South African National Youth Orchestra will join them on their tour.
Sir Roger is an expert in historically informed orchestral playing, in which he seeks to put modern players in touch with the historical style of the music they are performing. He has built up a reputation with this approach, his breakthrough coming with London Classical Players in the 1980s. He is a frequent guest with many of the world’s major orchestras – the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic,
CLOSING DATE: 1 March 2012
The Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) announces, via its Endowment for the National Arts, the SAMRO Music Bursaries for 2012.
These Bursaries are the most substantial awards in music study in Southern Africa. Bursaries are open to citizens of South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. Applicants should be registered for a music degree/ diploma at a South African University in 2012.
The following bursaries are on offer:
1. General Music Study (R10 000 each) available to students in their 1st and 2nd years
2. Music Education Bursaries (R10 000 …
This is day three of our sectionals as part of the National Youth Wind Orchestra course in Port Elizabeth. The sun is shining and the beach is calling, but 57 young musicians are sweating it out to get their heads and fingers around our varied and exciting programme.
Our tutors have come from across the country and the globe to share their knowledge and love for music, and it has been an incredible information and noise exchange!
NYO alumni Dario Broccardo (percussion), Boris Mohr (horn – who did his first NYO course …
Today is Day One of sectional rehearsals, and it sounds like this noise is going to develop into a fantastic sounding band! It’s been a wonderful road to getting our National Youth Wind Orchestra to the windy city of Port Elizabeth.
St. Luke’s Retreat and Centre where we are having all of our rehearsals and where we are living for the next ten days has been welcoming, the food is fantastic, and they even helped us with moving percussion this morning – that’s what we call service! If you ever …
SANYOF Chief Operations Officer Sophia Welz has been identified by the Mail & Guardian weekly newspaper in the Civil Society category as one of their “Top 200 Young South Africans” for 2011.
