Following the last twenty-one years’ successes the Stellenbosch University Piano Division once again joins forces with the Piano Division of the University of Cape Town South African College of Music for their annual Piano Exchange Concert. The 2023 programme will feature Scriabin Preludes. Concerts take place on Friday 18 August at 19:30 in the Fismer [...]

On Saturday 26 August the Voice Faculties of the SU Konservatorium and UCT's South African College of Music (SACM) will come together for a historic joint performance of popular lieder and operatic works. All the faculty members maintain active performance careers and this programme promises to be an exciting display of Cape Town’s finest singers. [...]

Experience the artistry of pianist Luis Magalhães as he takes the stage for a captivating piano recital through the timeless compositions of Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, and Prokofiev. While they lived in different time periods and composed in distinct styles, there are connections and influences that can be identified among them. Masters of Musical Evolution - [...]

The 2023 USSO Youth Concerto Festival will be once again held on 8 September in the Endler. Young soloists who successfully auditioned to perform at this festival will play alongside the University of Stellenbosch Symphony Orchestra (USSO) under the baton of Prof. Corvin Matei, who is also celebrating his 70th birthday this year. The Festival, [...]

Babette Roosenschoon (cello) and Esthea Kruger (piano) bring to life music by female composers for the cello and piano. Featuring mostly Romantic compositions, these lyrical works written by the female contemporaries of the likes of Brahms and Mendelssohn were severely under-performed due to gender inequality and are still rarely heard on the concert stage today. [...]

This seldom heard performance of Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, in its original scoring for choir, soloists, two pianos and harmonium promises to be one of the highlights of this year's Endler Concert Series. This gripping, almost operatic work's tremendous original success led Rossini to later orchestrate it, but this original and more unusual version, with its fascinating instrumental textures, remained his [...]

18 & 19 November. Johan de Villiers conducts two Verdi Requiem performances at the Endler. The 95 strong choir consists largely of previous members of the well-known Libertas Choir. The four soloists are the celebrated singers Hlengiwe Makhwanazi, Minette du Toit-Pearce, Luvo Maranti and Conroy Scott. The orchestra of 50 professional musicians has as concert [...]

Witness a historic collaboration at the Endler Concert series as South African virtuosos Nina Schumann, David Bester and Aristide du Plessis perform as trio for piano, violin and cello for the first time. Enjoy classics by Dvořák and Brahms, along with a newly composed piece by Stellenbosch composers Antoni Shonken and Arthur Feder. Experience a [...]

German bassist Martin Zenker frequently travels between Mongolia, Munich, Rio de Janeiro and Stellenbosch. In this concert he features musicians from Germany and South Africa, who are part of a new exciting exchange program between the SU Department of Music and the Munich Academy for Music. Experience highly energetic jazz, rooted in two cultures with [...]

The Winelands Philharmonic Orchestra is embarking on an exciting new musical journey in 2024. Join us for our concert, that forms part of the Endler Concert series, under the baton of Reghardt Kühn and the guidance of concertmaster Veronica Bell. The Winelands of the Western Cape are gearing up for a delightful summer harvest, and [...]