Concert: Grahamstown Sextet plays Rheinberger, Thuille and Taljaard

Date: 15 March 2013 19:30 - 15 March 2013 21:30
Location: Beethoven Room, Department of Music and Musicology
Organiser: Jared Lang (Phone 046 603 8490)
Event Type: Public Lecture

Event:      Grahamstown Sextet plays Rheinberger, Thuille and Taljaard

Venue:      Beethoven Room, Rhodes Department of Music & Musicology

Date:        Friday 15 March 2013

Time:        19h30

Entrance:   R50, R20 concessions

The Grahamstown Sextet presents

Works for woodwinds and piano 

Grocott’s Mail 14 June 2012:

“… a concert that served as a reminder of how lucky Grahamstown is to have
performers of national and international calibre.”

“Rheinberger’s 1884 Sextet for Piano and Winds in F Major … was an embroidered quilt of
colour, blended texture and sheer warmth of tone. “

Cue online National Arts Festival 2011:

“Stoltz and clarinet-player Jenny Truter-Brand conveyed superb ensemble playing and
flexible duettists phrasing.”

“Foxcroft’s revelling in the martellato passages, and the flourishes of the second movement, were balanced with moments of poignant sensitivity. Especially commendable is Foxcroft’s control over pianissimo tone production.“

“Boris Mohr, who plays the French horn, flawlessly handled legato melodic angularity, intertwining this with a thorough knowledge of the score.” 

A short clip of the Grahamstown sextet’s performance in the 2011 Arts Festival is viewable on www.youtube.com or http://cuetv.ru.ac.za/?p=1658

The Grahamstown Sextet formed in 2010 as a musical initiative showcasing musicians based in the Eastern Cape. The sextet’s first performance for the Grahamstown Music Society was devoted entirely to works by Francis Poulenc. In 2011 the Grahamstown sextet performed four concerts to high critical acclaim on the Arena platform at the National Arts Festival, where they were featured on Cue TV as one of the Festival highlights. In 2012 the Grahamstown sextet performed the opening concert for the 6^th National Grahamstown Music Competition, a programme which included the world
premiere of South African composer Johannes Taljaard’s composition Chansons a Boire. In 2013, the Grahamstown sextet will perform sextets by Rheinberger, Thuille, and Taljaard in concert series at North West University (Potchefstroom), Rhodes University (Grahamstown), and the UNISA Foundation Concert Series (Pretoria).

The popular woodwind and piano sextet comprises of some of South Africa’s finest performers: Catherine Foxcroft, (piano), Bridget Rennie-Salonen (flute), Hilary Mohr (oboe), Jenny Brand (clarinet), Liesl van der Merwe (bassoon), and Shannon Armer (French horn). Other musicians who
perform as part of the sextet include Liesl Stoltz (flute), Penny Fraser (bassoon), and Boris Mohr (French horn).

The Grahamstown sextet offers a unique variety of timbres, textures, and styles that appeal to music lovers and connoisseurs alike. The versatile sextet performs quintets, quartets, and trios, presenting the audience with a selection of chamber music ranging from Baroque to contemporary style periods. A priority for the sextet’s concert repertoire however is to perform woodwind and piano sextets, most of which are seldom heard in South Africa.

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