The Stockholm Saxophone Quartet has made a speciality of chamber music for saxophone – by composers from at home and abroad. They also specialise in advanced electro-acoustic music. The members of the Quartet have had over 600 works written for them. A recurrent feature of their work is the close collaboration they undertake with Swedish [...]

Cape Town Opera will collaborate with Stellenbosch University’s Music and Drama Departments for the first time on a new production of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the US Woordfees, as part of the Naspers Grand Masters series. Following his outstanding CTO debut with Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Erik Dippenaar returns to conduct the period instrument ensemble Camerata Tinta Barocca. A new [...]

Chiaroscuro Lutesong: Early baroque music With: Lente Louw (mezzo soprano) and Uwe Grosser (lute, theorbo) Powerful contrasts create unforgettable moments. One of the most typical features of Baroque art is the use of strong contrasts between light and shadow to give three dimensional objects a sense of volume. This programme of compositions from the 16th [...]

Operas often tell the stories of betrayal, murder and love that tests characters to the very limits of their emotional boundaries. Heroines (and anti-heroines) are usually the ones that suffer the most in these tales. They are passionate mistresses who willingly sacrifice everything and are certainly ready to murder should it be necessary.  This production focuses [...]

The Contrast Project is an innovative and daring group of professional musicians. Their aim is to be inclusive of other art forms and to push the boundaries of the contemporary classical music scene in South Africa. Their production "Die Soldaat se Storie” is a translated version of Igor Stravinsky's Soldiers Tale, written for violin, clarinet, [...]

With: Stanislav Angelov (accordion), Petrus de Beer (violin) and Schalk Joubert (bass) You have never heard this beloved violin concerti sound like this. Composed in 1723, it remains one of Antonio Vivaldi’s most famous works and it is said that he later wrote poems to explain the music with which he captured his experience of [...]

Evergreen music that touches the heart has universal appeal.  The Stellenbosch University Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor, Corvin Matei, presents a programme of heartfelt romantic music. The opening work is a tribute to Claude Debussy with all of the subtle colours and shades of the symphonic poem, Prélude a l' après-midi d'un faune (Afternoon [...]

Khoi music on blik'nsnaar and bow, together with Genevan psalm melodies on flute and organ, tell of first meetings between peoples at the Cape. Within the acoustic spaces of four churches in Stellenbosch, cultural commentary is presented as lamentation, protest and contemporary imagination. FREE Mon 5 Mar, 7:00, Rynse Kerk, Stellenbosch Tues 6 Mar, 7:00, VGK, Cloetesville Wed 7 [...]

The theme of this years' extremely popular midday organ concerts is Fantasia and the programme consists of works from composers such as Bach, Pachelbel, Mozart,Liszt and Saint-Saëns. Fantasia is a musical composition that is strongly improvisational. 5 March: Winand Grundling Fantasie in F-minor K 608 by W.A. Mozart 6 March: Mario Nell Fantasie No. 1 in E-flt major by C. [...]

Fantasia is the theme of this years popular series of lunch hour organ concerts in the Moederkerk, Stellenbosch. Each of the following organists will perform a Fantasia with works by Bach, Pachelbel, Mozart, Liszt and Saint-Saëns. ‘n Fantasia is a single movement work in free form with an improvisatory character. Three Stellenbosch organists, Zorada Temmingh, [...]