Zanta Hofmeyr and Elna van der Merwe present this special recital featuring works for violin and piano by three French Composers: Debussy, Poulenc and Saint-Saëns. The concert also serves as a launch for the CD recording of this programme which was recorded in the Endler hall - renowned for its excellent acoustics, by the equally [...]

Organist Winand Grundling will perform a varied programme inspired by Bach's 400 kilometer journey from Arnstadt to Lübeck to hear the famous organist, Dietrich Buxtehude. Winand is a graduate with BMus Hons (cum laude) from Stellenbosch University which he obtained under the tutelage of Dr Mario Nell. He began his organ studies in 2002 and [...]

Cape Town based guitarist Derek Gripper will perform in the Fismer Hall. Gripper has been praised for his dream-like improvisatory nature of these compositions as well as for his astounding musicality and technical brilliance. “His music draws on European traditions, avant-garde Brazillian works, Malian Kora repertoire, Cape Town’s Folk musics and Indian Classical music all [...]

Shirt of Fire / Hemp van Vlam, written by playwright Pieter Cilliers, is a one-woman opera, which explores the poetry and art of celebrated South African poet, Sheila Cussons. Twelve poems were selected from Cussons’s lifelong oeuvre to tell the storyline and dialogue while celebrated international composer, Professor Hendrik Hofmeyr, currently Head of Composition and [...]

Resident musical director, Corvin Matei conducts the University of Stellenbosch Symphony Orchestra (USSO) in a programme that includes acclaimed virtuosic flautist, Raffaele Trevisani. Trevisani studied with Sir James Galway who regards him as "...one of the best flautists of the day for his beautiful singing tone, perfect technique and dedication to the art of music..". [...]

The ever popular Two Blondes – Elna van der Merwe and Zorada Temmingh will be giving one of their equally popular two-piano recitals, with well-known classical tunes from piano and orchestral repertoires, such as Brahms, Bizet (Carmen) and Bernstein (West Side Story). From the field of hitparades are items such as those by The Beach [...]

The production titled Kaap, Mzansi and Beyond has a strong and true Cape emphasis, whilst visiting the rest of our country and elsewhere. Several commissioned arrangements will be performed for the first time, among which a medley District 6: The Musical by Camillo Lombard, I Hear Music from Pacific Express, by Ramon Alexander, the contemporary [...]

Respected local musicians and members of staff at Stellenbosch University, pianist Pieter Grobler, violinist Suzanne Martens and cellist Peter Martens, will perform piano trios by Debussy, Schumann and Shostakovich. The trio has come together especially for Woordfees 2017 to perform some of the world’s most sublime chamber music. Shostakovich’s first trio dates from 1923. The [...]

Pioniers is a performance of song, a celebration of the Afrikaans language and poetry, through compositions by pioneers who attempted to establish an Afrikaans tradition of art song. Audiences will meet the work of three generations of these pioneers – S le Roux Marais, Arnold van Wyk and Hendrik Hofmeyr – and accompanied on a [...]

Hendrik Hofmeyr is one of South Africa’s most celebrated composers. Musicians including Jolene McCleland – mezzo-soprano, the Odeion String Quartet, Anmari van der Westhuizen - cello, Suzanne Martens - violin and Elna van der Merwe – piano perform in a concert of his chamber music in an all Hofmeyr affair in celebration of his 60th [...]