‘PLAY – PROMOTE – INSPIRE’
The extensive tour by the National Youth Orchestra of Germany will include three major concerts in Durban, Pretoria and Cape Town. During the eight days that the orchestra will be in South Africa the members will also engage in workshops involving young people from marginalised communities.
The program will include among other Johannes Brahms Symphony no. 2, George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess ‘ Symphonic Picture for Orchestra’ arr. Russel Bennet and a composition on Sangoma music themes, dedicated to the tour, by Hendrik Hofmeyer. The soloist will be the award winning singer songwriter from the Eastern Cape, Msaki.
The conductor is the Music Director of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and Associate Principle Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Shelley.
Parallel to this tour the German all-female acapella ensemble Sjaella and the South African all-male acapella and beat-box ensemble Just 6, will engage in a creative project to prepare for two major concerts at the Beethovenfest Bonn and in Berlin together with orchestra. These concerts will feature the ensembles in a new work by the South African composer Tshepo Tsotetsi, 'Birth of Change‘ (commissioned by Deutsche Welle). At the Pretoria concert they will give a taste of their a capella program.
TICKETS: https://online.computicket.com/web/event/play_promote_inspire/1320966405/0/95903869
Promoter: Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Partnership with MIAGI and in association with the Faculty of the Arts at the University of Pretoria.
Partner: Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, MIAGI, Faculty of the Arts at the University of Pretoria, National Youth Orchestra of Germany (Bundesjugendorchester), German Music Council, Beethovenfest Bonn, Deutsche Welle
Supported by: Federal Foreign Office, Goethe-Institut, Evonik-Stiftung, South African Airways
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