Lovers of early music will be delighted to hear L'Orfeo, the acclaimed Austrian Baroque orchestra, will be performing at Unisa on Sunday 9 September at 16:00.
The concert will take place in the ZK Matthews Great Hall on the Unisa Muckleneuk Campus.
L’Orfeo Barockorchester is viewed as one of the leading international ensembles for historically informed performance practice. It was founded at the Bruckner University Linz in Austria in 1996.
The orchestra has been awarded international prizes for its recordings, some of which will be on sale at the day of the concert.
They will be playing works by Telemann (Sonata in E minor for two oboes, bassoon, strings and basso continuo), Vivaldi (Concerto grosso in D minor from L’Estro armonico and Concerto in C minor for recorder, strings and basso continuo) and J S Bach (Mass in G minor, BWV 235).
The orchestra will perform with the vocal ensemble Fons Partita.
The co-founder of the orchestra, Carin van Heerden, will be the soloist on recorder and oboe.
Born in Cape Town, she continued her music studies in Cologne and Amsterdam. Carin was professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg from 1993 to 2004 and then at the Cologne Musikhochschule until 2008. At present she teaches the baroque oboe and recorder and is head of the Institute for Early Music and Performance Practice at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz.
The concert leader of L’Orfeo is Michi Gaigg. The orchestra will be joined by four South African guests: Violinists Elmarie van der Vyfer, Tanya Spiller and Werner Retief as well as Gerhard Benadé on bassoon.
Tickets for this event are sold only at the door at R85 for adults and R65 for students and pensioners.
For information contact Alet Joubert, Unisa Music Foundation, Tel: 012 429 3336/3311, Cell: 084 763 4079. www.unisa.ac.za/musicfoundation