Saturday, 21 January 2017, 7.30 p.m.
Sunday, 22 January 2017, 3.00 p.m.
VIENNESE NEW YEAR’S CONCERT
Linder Auditorium
“Fairytales & Folk Stories”
New Year, just as in Vienna, with music by the Strauss family, Émile Waldteufel, Franz Lehár and others, including the Blue Danube, Czárdás & many more Viennese favourites.
In keeping with the theme, please feel free to attend in traditional or folk dress!
Maudée Montierre (soprano); Phenye Modiane (tenor); Joburg Ballet; Johannesburg Festival Orchestra; Richard Cock (conductor)
Friday, 27 January 2017, 8.00 p.m.
Sunday, 29 January 2017, 3.00 p.m.
OPENING EVENT – A Sea Point Story
Wits Theatre
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Saturday, 28 January 2017, 3.00 p.m.
NEW MUSIC COLLABORATION – Re Mixing Music
St Francis of Assisi, Parkview
Three young South African composers, Lungiswa Plaatjies, Kingsley Buitendag and Prince Bulo worked under the guidance of Composer-in-Residence Neo Muyanga on the mixing and re-working of Western Art Music and African Art Music. Their works will be premiered at this performance, followed by a discussion regarding the creative process, led by Neo Muyanga and Dizu Plaatjies.
Lungiswa Plaatjies (composer & performer); Kingsley Buitendag (composer); Prince Bulo (composer); Neo Muyanga (facilitator); Dizu Plaatjies (panel member & performer); members of the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra
Supported by the Goethe Institut
Saturday, 28 January 2017, 7.30 p.m.
SONG RECITAL – Songs from Afar
Northwards House
Programme includes works by Benjamin Britten, Johannes Brahms, Manuel da Falla & Braam du Toit
Magdalene Minnaar (soprano); José Dias (piano)
Sunday, 29 January 2017
Rehearsal 11.00 a.m. | Performance 3.00 p.m.
ORCHESTRA FROM SCRATCH
Scott Gym
An orchestral experience for any and all musicians (minimum Grade 3 level). If you would like to participate in this unique experience, contact us at the JIMF Offices.
The performance promises to be fun for the whole family. Attendance for the audience is free!
Programme includes music by John Philip Sousa, Rodgers & Hammerstein and Paul McCartney, with family favourites such as St Louis Blues, and Washington Post.
Nicholas Nicolaidis (tenor); Richard Cock (conductor)
Supported by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust
Sunday, 29 January 2017, 6.00 p.m.
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT
Northwards House
Antonin Dvořák: Piano Quintet No.2 Op.81; Béla Bartók: String Quartet No.5
Odeion String Quartet; Florian Uhlig (piano)
Supported by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust
Monday, 30 January 2017, 7.30 p.m.
PIANO RECITAL
Northwards House
Programme includes works by Franz Schubert, Josef Haydn, Friedrich Cerha and Thomas Larcher
Stefan Stroissnig (piano)
Supported by the Austrian Embassy
Tuesday, 31 January 2017, 7.00 p.m.
SONG RECITAL
Deutsche International Schule Johannesburg
Programme focuses specifically on German folk songs
Christoph von Weitzel (baritone); Kilian Sprau (piano); learners from DSJ
Tuesday, 31 January 2017, 7.30 p.m.
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT
St Francis of Assisi, Parkview
Programme includes works by Franz Schubert, Astor Piazzolla, Daniel Schnyder, Enrique Granados and Luigi Boccherini.
Casal Quartet; Han Jonkers (guitar)
Supported by Pro Helvetia
Wednesday, 1 February 2017, 7.30 p.m
FLUTE RECITAL
Northwards House
Programme includes works by Gabriel Fauré, Philippe Gaubert, César Franck, George Bizet and François Borne.
Stéphane Réty (flute); Antoine de Grolée (piano)
Supported by the French Institute of South Africa
Thursday, 2 February 2017, 7.30 p.m.
CLARINET RECITAL
Northwards House
Programme includes works by Robert Schumann, Béla Bartók, Johannes Brahms, Gerald Finzi, Witold Lutoslawski and Françis Poulenc.
Michael Collins (clarinet); Florian Uhlig (piano)
Thursday, 2 February 2017, 7.30 p.m.
CINEMA IMPROVISANDO
The Bioscope
Paul Hanmer, Composer-in-Residence 2012, is back for one of our annual favourites. This year the team will be improvising a soundtrack to Snow White, black and white classic from 1916, directed by J. Searle Dawley, and the film on which Disney based his animated hit Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Paul Hanmer (keyboard); Soyaphi Louis Mhlanga (guitar)
Friday, 3 February 2017, 2.00 p.m.
BASA EVENT – CEOs IN FRONT OF THE ORCHESTRA
The Spaceframe
Based on the very successful event from JIMF 2016, CEOs pick their favourite orchestral work and, with guidance from Maestro Cock, attempt to bring it all together.
Attendance is FREE.
The Johannesburg Festival Orchestra; Richard Cock (facilitator)
Supported by BASA
Friday, 3 February 2017, 7.30 p.m.
SONG RECITAL – VOCAL MASTERCLASS FINAL CONCERT
Northwards House
An attractive programme of favourite songs and opera arias. Directed by Dr Klesie Kelly-Moog
Participants of the vocal masterclasses 2017; Annelien Ball (piano)
Saturday, 4 February 2017, 4.00 p.m.
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERT
The Edge, St Mary’s School
Programme includes works by W.A. Mozart, Edvard Grieg, Ralph Vaughan-Williams and Fritz Kriesler, as well as traditional township Kwela.
Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble; Rosemary Nalden (conductor)
Saturday, 4 February 2017, 8.00 p.m.
PIANO RECITAL
Linder Auditorium
Programme includes work by György Ligeti, Erik Satie, Arvo Pärt, Igor Stravinsky, Frédéric Chopin & Astor Piazzolla
Joanna MacGregor (piano)
In association with the Johannesburg Musical Society
Sunday, 5 February 2017, 11.00 a.m.
FAMILY CONCERT
Linder Auditorium
A concert to be enjoyed by the whole family, including a performance of Pieter & the Horrible Hyena (with apologies to Prokofiev) and an introduction to the orchestra.
Johannesburg Youth Ballet; Johannesburg Festival Orchestra; Nicholas Nicolaidis (narrator); Richard Cock (conductor)
Sunday, 5 February 2017, 3.00 p.m.
CLOSING CONCERT
The Edge, St Mary’s School
“Mozart to Muyanga”
Programme will include the premier of a new work by Neo Muyanga, commissioned especially for the Festival, as well as works by Ludwig van Beethoven and W.A. Mozart
Neo Muyanga (piano); Florian Uhlig (piano); members of the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra
The Brooklyn Theatre in partnership with the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival
