The Odeion Quartet, resident at the University of the Free State, is joining forces with pianist Catherine Foxcroft in a performance of Dvorak’s Quintet no 2 in A major on Sunday 22 April at 16:00 in the Enoch Sontonga Hall on Unisa’s Sunnyside Campus.
The other work on the programme will be the Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25 by Brahms.
A graduate of the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany, Catherine Foxcroft returned from over a decade of international study, competitions and solo performance in 2003 and is currently a senior lecturer in piano at Rhodes University.
She performs frequently as a soloist with South African symphony orchestras and appears nationally and internationally in recitals, most recently in a tour of SA and Zimbabwe in 2008.
The Odeion String Quartet was constituted in 1991 as the permanent full-time resident String Quartet at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein and is at present the only resident String Quartet at a South African University.
The current members are Denise Sutton as Leader of the Quartet, Sharon de Kock, second violinist, Jeanne-Louise Moolman, violist and Anmari van der Westhuizen, cellist. They have been appointed in 2008.
Exciting new opportunities for learners and students to be taught by excellent lecturers at the music department of the UFS were created with the appointment of the current members.
The players also strengthen the Free State Symphony Orchestra significantly, since they fill the four principal positions in the string section.
Tickets for this event on the Unisa Sunnyside Campus are sold only at the door at R85 for adults and R65 for students and pensioners.
For enquiries contact Alet Joubert at the Unisa Music Foundation, Tel: 012 429 3336/3311; Cell: 084 763 4079 -- Unisa Music foundation