Puccini's most popular, quick-witted and hilarious buffoon, Gianni Schicchi, is paying a visit to the Endler stage to help the penny-pinching, obnoxious family of the late Buoso Donati recover some of the inheritance which Buoso so "kindly" decided to leave to charities and not to them. Along with Schicchi comes his darling daughter, Lauretta, with [...]

Puccini's most popular, quick-witted and hilarious buffoon, Gianni Schicchi, is paying a visit to the Endler stage to help the penny-pinching, obnoxious family of the late Buoso Donati recover some of the inheritance which Buoso so "kindly" decided to leave to charities and not to them. Along with Schicchi comes his darling daughter, Lauretta, with [...]

Stellenbosch University Division for Social Impact in partnership with Stellenbosch University Jazz Band under the direction of Felicia Lesch present an online fundraising concert for the Ronnie Samaai Music Education Project. Stellenbosch University (SU) Jazz Band take centre stage joined by South African jazz legend Gloria Bosman. Multiple award winning songstress, Gloria Bosman, who studied [...]

The Cape Chamber Music Collective, a passion project put together by a group of South African musicians, has recently launched their concerts in and around Cape Town. “Summer Nights” is their second project, the title of the concert inspired by the music they will perform. Barber’s Summer Music for Wind Quintet is his only work [...]

This concert is dedicated to the late Peter Klatzow, one of South Africa’s most celebrated composers, who was a student of Nadia Boulanger at the Paris Conservatoire. Klatzow shared the same musical upbringing with such notable composers such as Aaron Copland and Astor Piazzolla. The Cello and Piano Sonata is a beautifully lyric, positively energetic [...]

Beauty in variation, variation in beauty Nina Schumann, professor and head of the Piano Division at Stellenbosch University Music Department and Artistic Director of the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival, needs no introduction to local audiences. She has titled this solo recital as “Beauty in variation, variation in beauty” and has compiled a programme of [...]

The Endler Concert Series is delighted to bring you soprano Paulina Malefane in concert with pianist José Dias on Friday 4 March at 7pm in the Endler Hall, Stellenbosch. Paulina Malefane rose to fame in 2005 when she co-wrote, directed, and starred in U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, an adaptation of Bizet's opera Carmen. She was selected to [...]

We are looking forward to the 2022 collaboration between the UCT Opera School and the Stellenbosch University Vocal Division. Performances take place on Thursday 10 March at 7:30pm at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town, and on Friday 11 March at 7pm at the Endler Hall, Stellenbosch. Two big ideas underpin the choice of songs in [...]

On 18 and 19 March, Schola Cantorum together with the Stellenbosch University Camerata, led by Suzanne Martens and conducted by Martin Berger, bring Choral Music back to to the Endler Hall. Few events in recent history have shaken humanity like COVID19 did. Although the phenomenon is one of the 21st century, in music we find [...]

On 18 and 19 March, Schola Cantorum together with the Stellenbosch University Camerata, led by Suzanne Martens and conducted by Martin Berger, bring Choral Music back to to the Endler Hall. Few events in recent history have shaken humanity like COVID19 did. Although the phenomenon is one of the 21st century, in music we find [...]