After a moving festival opening on Saturday night, the 10th anniversary edition of Les Amateurs Virtuoses is in full swing. Virtuoses tickets are still available.
Recitals and master classes with some of the world’s most acclaimed amateur pianists take place this week at the Baxter Concert Hall and SA College of Music with a festival finale on Sunday November 18 with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. Added into the mix of doctors, dentists and other professionals by day and thrilling pianists (plus on cellist and one violinist) by night are South African professional pianists Jan Hugo, Francois du Toit and Albie van Schalkwyk who are giving master classes as well as two students in performance.
Virtuoses tickets are still available
Tuesday November 13
Baxter Concert Hall 7.30pm
French data scientist Olivier Dupont performs Prokofiev Sonata no 4
Dupont and IT specialist Julien Lombardo perform Milhaud’s Scaramouche
Lombardo and South African student cellist Ethan Lawson perform Brahms Sonata for cello and piano No. 1
Wednesday November 14
Baxter Concert Hall
10am
Masterclass by Albie van Schalkwyk
Festival director Julien Kurtz performs Liszt Paraphrase on Verdi’s Rigoletto and more
7.30pm
Civil engineer Geoffrey Gauthier performs Brahms Ballades no 1 (1,2,3), Debussy Images excerpts and Chopin Fantasie
Mikhail Dubov and Russian economist Polina Rendak perform Medtner Russian Round Dance, Shostakovich Concertina for two pianos and Prokofiev/Pletnev Cinderella excerpts
Thursday November 15
Baxter Concert Hall
10am
Masterclass by Philip Fowke, internationally renowned performer and teacher
French IT specialist Thierry Goldwaser performs Brahms Seven Fantasies extracts
Mikhael Dubov performs Rachmaninov/Bach Partita
7.30pm
Henri Delbeau performs Schumann Kreisleriana and Liszt Reminiscences of Don Juan
American soloist and teacher Jay Gottlieb performs George Gershwin songs
Gottlieb and Julien Kurtz perform Rhapsody in Blue (four hands) Gershwin/Levine
Friday November 16
Chisholm Recital Room, SA College of Music
10am
Masterclass and concert by Philip Fowke
Julien Kurtz Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor (1st mvt)
Philip Fowke performs Busoni Kammer-Fantasie on Bizet’s Carmen and Chopin Polonaise Heroique
7.30pm
German psychiatrist Matthias Fischer performs Brahms /Handel Variations
Fischer and French auditor/violinist Christophe Strassel perform Debussy Sonata for Piano and Violin
Fischer and German computer scientist Johannes Goechter perform Rachmaninov Suite for 2 Pianos
Goechter performs Chopin Impromtu, Scriabin Sonata no 2 and Rachmaninov/Wild Floods of Spring
Saturday November 17
Chisholm Recital Room, SA College of Music
10am
Master class by Jay Gottlieb
South African osteopath Patrick McDonald performs Haydn Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor (1st mvt)
French business director Xavier Aymonod performs Schubert Sonata D 958 (1st mvt)
Gugu ‘Sthebe Langa
2pm
Free concert
Muzukids show that they can do with their violins!
Thomas Yu and Francois du Toit perform Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals
Narrator: Philip de Vos
Sunday November 18
Chisholm Recital Room, SA College of Music
10am
Masterclass by Jay Gottlieb
UCT Student Kevin Kim performs Chopin Fantasie
UCT student Ian Botha performs Ravel Miroirs
Cape Town City Hall
Final festival concert with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra
6pm
Chopin Piano concerto No 1 (1st mvt)
Tchaikovsky Piano concerto No 1 (1st mvt)
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 1
Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos
What: Les Amateurs Virtuoses
Where and when: Selected venues, Cape Town until 18 November 2018
Book: Tickets for Guga S’thebe free / Masterclasses available at the door / Les Amateurs Virtuoses at the Baxter: Webtickets / City Hall: Computicket
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