For the 17th year, the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra is presenting the annual Huberte Rupert Memorial Concert at the Endler Hall in Stellenbosch to honour the great philanthropist by giving a young South African musician living or studying abroad the opportunity to return home to perform with the CPO.
The concert takes place on Friday, November 28, at 19:30 .
This year violist Eike Coetzee, who currently studies with Tabea Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, will perform Hindemith’s Viola Concerto, Der Schawanendreher, with fellow South African Leon Bosch on the podium. The other works are The Hebrides overture by Mendelssohn and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.
Eike Coetzee,
Eike has won several competitions, most notably the silver medal at the National Youth Music Competition in 2021, and is establishing himself in several ensembles in Munich in particular. He is looking forward to performing this concerto which he says is full of confident monologues, intense rhythmical passages, sweet melodies and fast virtuosity. “The viola has to take on the role of a storyteller or wandering bard, who brings stories from far away: cheerful and serious songs, on which he fantasises. It is a special concerto, with unique challenges. The orchestra creates a dark and earthy sound, built from low strings woodwinds and brass. Demanding much power and endurance for the soloist, it was a groundbreaking composition for the viola‘s journey from a traditional chamber music and orchestra role to becoming a solo instrument.”
Leon Bosch, one of the world’s foremost double bass players, is one of the few double bass players to direct concertos from the instrument. In this case, he has moved to the podium as he establishes a career as a conductor. He studied in London with Sian Edwards and St Petersburg with Alexander Polishchuk and has conducted groups in the UK and around the world, including I Musicanti, Liverpool Mozart Orchestra, Wrexham Symphony Orchestra, Icknield Ensemble, Bombay Chamber Orchestra and the University of Stellenbosch Camerata.
WHAT: Huberte Rupert Memorial Concert
WHERE: Endler Hall, Victoria St & Neethling St, Stellenbosch Central, Stellenbosch, 7600
WHEN: Friday, November 28, at 19:30 .
BOOKING: Tickets from Artscape Dial-A-Seat 021 421 7695 or Webtickets
INFO: E shirley@cpo.org.za
PHOTO: Leon Bosch (c) juno-snowdon-photography
