Tankwa Classics 1-3 April 2022

When you proceed to ticket selection, you have to click on the map on the colour-coded spots. Please note that you in PAD 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 you need a minimum of 2 tickets.

If you need a single supplement tent you need to contact the organizers.

This vehicle pass is only for those who are making use of a Roof Top Tent, RV or camp trailer. We are limited of space in the camping area. The vehicles that do not fit the camp vehicle criteria will be forced to camp in the parking area regardless of you are in possession of a vehicle pass or not.

BYO (Bring Your Own) Camping POD 2 - R2100 per person

1km distance from POD 1 main camp

Included:

-         1 x entry ticket

-         4 x Buffet meals

-         Access to braai facilities

-         Access to ablution facilities

Excluded:

-         Bring your own camping tent, shade and all camping equipment

BYO (Bring Your Own) Camping POD 1 - R2600 pp

By the main camp

Included:

-         1 x entry ticket

-         4 x Buffet meals

-         Access to braai facilities

-         Access to ablution facilities

Excluded:

-         Bring your own camping tent, shade, and all camping equipment

TENT UNDER SHADE AT POD 1 - R4500 pp sharing

*Single supplement R6000 (i.e. should you take this as a non-sharing option, it will cost R6000)

Included:

-         1 x entry ticket

-         4 x Buffet meals

-         1 x already set-up luxury dome tent for 2 under shade. Each tent comes equipped with high quality double or 2 x single mattresses and a camp light.

-         Access to a communal shade area with a table, power point and standing chandelier

-         Access to braai facilities

-         Access to ablution facilities

Excluded:

-         Bedding

-         Towels

-         Camping chairs 

GLAMPING AT POD 1 - R5500 pp sharing

*Single supplement R8000 (i.e. should you take this as a non-sharing option, it will cost R8000)

Included:

-         1 x entry ticket

-         4 x Buffet meals

-         1 x already set-up luxury dome tent for 2 under shade.

-         Each tent comes equipped with high quality double or 2 x single mattresses and a camp light, bedside tables, electric lights and multiplug point.

-         Tents are equipped with basic bedding (fitted sheet, top sheet, blanket and pillows)

-         Access to a communal shade area with a table, power points, standing chandelier, communal fridge, coffee station and water cooler.

-         Access to luxury glamping ablution facilities

-         2 x camping chairs

-         Access to braai facilities

Excluded:

-         Personal bedding

-         Towels

ROUND ROOMS AT POD 1 - R7000 pp sharing

Included:

-         1 x entry ticket

-         4 x Buffet meals

-         The Round Room is a stylish 2 bedroomed cottage for 4 persons. 

-         The round room offers a fully kitted out kitchen and personal bathroom.

-         2 x camping chairs,

-         2 x double beds with bedside tables

-         Room fans

-         Electric lights and power points

-         Access to all Pod 1 facilities. 

Friday, 1 April 2022

12h00 onwards | Gates open for guest arrival

20h00 | Concert 1 | “Rhapsody in Blue”

-         Symphonic Wind Ensemble performance with conductors Pamela Kierman and Riaan van Wyk

-         Solo piano performance by Elna van der Merwe

-         Solo cello performance by Peter Martens

Saturday, 2 April 2022

During the day guests are welcome to enjoy guided nature walks, take a stroll down the Place of Dreams art walk, take a dip in the infinity dam or simply soak up nature, kick back and relax.

17h00 | Concert 2 | “Chamber music amongst friends”

-         Performances featuring strings, oboe, flute and piano

20h30 | Concert 3 | “Opera under the stars”

-         Performances featuring singers, strings, oboe, flute and piano

Sunday, 3 April 2022

During the day guests are welcome to enjoy guided nature walks, take a stroll down the Place of Dreams art walk, take a dip in the infinity dam or simply soak up nature, kick back and relax.

10h00 | Concert 4 | “English Breakfast”

-         The grand finale – where we are joined by our English composers and all instrumentalists at the breakfast venue, for the final show.  

SUZANNE MARTENS / VIOLIN

SUZANNE MARTENS studied with Alan Solomon (South Africa), Jan Repko (The Netherlands) and Lavard Skou-Larsen (Austria). She has held principal positions in orchestras since 1994, the most recent being guest concertmaster of the CPO. She has appeared with several orchestras as soloist and has been a member of numerous chamber music groups. She is currently appointed as senior lecturer in Violin and Chamber Music at Stellenbosch University.

PETRUS DE BEER / VIOLIN

PETRUS DE BEER is a classically trained violinist (MMus RSAMD) who resides in Paarl, South Africa. He worked for the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra as a principal player and taught at various top music schools. Currently he freelances in various combinations and styles, ranging from Classical, Blues and Jazz. as a sought after session player he made numerous recordings for Television, radio, CD and DVD.

KARIN GAERTNER / VIOLA

KARIN GAERTNER was principal violist of the former Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. Her studies include a B.Sc from UCT and a Performer's Diploma from the conservatoire “Claudio Monteverdi” in Italy, as well as various master classes in Europe whilst living and working there as an ad-hoc member of both the “Orchestra del teatro lirico di Cagliari” (Sardinia, Italy) and the “Orchestra Haydn” (Bolzano, Italy). She is an active Chamber musician and regular member of the Amici String Quartet as well as many other free-lance chamber groups and ad-hoc orchestras.

PETER MARTENS / CELLO

SAMA award winning cellist, PETER MARTENS, studied at Stellenbosch University and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Peter is currently the Director of the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival and principal cellist of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. He performs concertos and recitals all over South Africa and enjoys chamber music partnerships with a number of artists worldwide. His numerous CDs are released internationally on the Meridian, Cello Classics and 2Pianists labels.

LIESL STOLTZ / FLUTE

LIESL STOLTZ is a freelance, classical flutist and part-time lecturer at the University of Cape Town. She studied in South Africa, France and Italy and won various national and international awards. Liesl regularly performs at festivals and tertiary institutions in South Africa and in Europe. She is a founder-director of the Rainbow Exchange NPC and a Yamaha South Africa artist. She recorded several CDs including “Explorations – South African Flute Music” which received the creative output award from the Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2017.

CARIN BAM / OBOE

CARIN BAM is one of the cornerstones of South African oboe performance and education. She studied under Sergei Burdukov at the University of Stellenbosch - graduating with a BMus degree - before gaining her performance licentiate cum laude from UNISA. She is currently Sub-Principal Oboist and Cor-Anglais player at the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a founding member of the “Intonga Reed Quintet”, and is currently an oboe tutor at the Beau Soleil Music Centre and at her private teaching practice, as well as a part-time lecturer at the South African College of Music.

JANEL SPEEELMAN / SOPRANO

JANEL SPEELMAN, soprano, is quickly establishing herself as an emerging artist in operatic, concert and art song performance work in South Africa. Speelman is a graduate of UCT, where she attained a Bachelor of Music degree, an Honours in Western Classical Vocal Performance, as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Opera. She completed a Master of Music qualification at the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre and Dance in 2016 and was invited to sing at the annual prestigious performance at the Kennedy Centre. She has operatic and concert experience and often performs with the Songmakers' Guild and is currently working as a vocal lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. 

MINETTE DU TOIT-PEARCE / MEZZO SOPRANO

Cape Town born Mezzo-soprano MINETTE DU TOIT-PEARCE has been entertaining audiences for almost two decades. Although she is well known for her contribution to art song performance she is also sought after as oratorio singer and has performed with all of the major orchestras in South Africa. She has sung in England, Austria, France and most recently in America with the Minnesota Orchestra. She is the Head of the Singing Division at Stellenbosch University where she lectures voice. She has a keen interest in teaching and has presented master classes not only locally but also in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

NIËL RADEMAN / BARITONE

NIËL RADEMAN (baritone) is a highly acclaimed South African singer of musicals, cabaret and operatic music. He worked with the best singers in the country. He sang in productions on the West End in London, performed Europe the past in solo concerts where he was applauded with standing ovations (Vienna, Den Hague, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Bern - Switzerland, Boussac - France and London) He performs all over the country with renowned pianist, Elna van der Merwe. 

ELNA VAN DER MERWE / PIANO

Elna van der Merwe was a full time accompanist and part time piano lecturer at the Conservatory of the University of Stellenbosch until 2001. Since then she is an ad hoc pianist and sought-after collaborative artist for local as well as international artists. She has recorded many cd’s with various artists and performed in all the major festivals in the country.

Wind Ensemble

WINDWORX SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE

WINDWORX SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE was founded in 2005 to provide a platform for professional and semiprofessional musicians to perform the crème de la crème of wind band music. Over the last 11 years it has played and recorded this fine music under the baton of resident conductor, Sean Kierman and guest conductors, Allan Stephenson, Mathew Reid, Phil Golson and Rik Ghesquière, for which it has gained considerable local and international attention. Windworx aims to provide a vehicle for post-graduate musicians from all walks of life to practise their art and perform music of an advanced level.

THE UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE

THE UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE (USSWE) was established by Dr. Paul Loeb van Zuilenburg in 1976, with only 10 members. It was the first university level Wind Band to be established in the Western Cape. Subsequent conductors were Faan Malan, the late Mervyn Solomon, Andries Smit, the late Albert Engel (first full-time brass lecturer at the Music Department) and Prof Corvin Matei. Pamela Kierman took over in 2004 and during her time USSWE has had the opportunity to work with several guest conductors including Sean Kierman, Riaan van Wyk, Rik Ghesquière, Robert Maxym, Phil Golson and Allan Stephenson among others.

PAMELA KIERMAN / CONDUCTOR

PAMELA KIERMAN is the Convener of the Wind Department at Stellenbosch University (SU) and Conductor of the SU Symphonic Wind Ensemble. As horn player, she was a member of the former CAPAB orchestra in Port Elizabeth and has played on an ad hoc basis with a several orchestras in the Cape and Namibia. She is deputy-chair of the SA Horn Society and WindWorx Symphonic Wind Ensemble and a member of the FASS Community Interaction Committee at SU. Pamela is committed to community music, regularly adjudicates community band competitions, conducts workshops with 'community brass' and consults with community music organisations on matters of funding, sustainability, brass pedagogy etc.

RIAAN VAN WYK / CONDUCTOR

RIAAN VAN WYK studied accounting at Stellenbosch University and the University of Cape Town, but has long had a passion for the wind band idiom. He currently chairs the WindWorx Symphonic Wind Ensemble, coaches school bands and leads formal wind ensembles and pop orchestras as guest conductor. To promote the wind band genre he launched the annual WindWorx Fanfare in 2010 and supports smaller and non-mainstream classical concerts through his SmallConcerts initiative. His collaborative approach has enabled musicians from a wide background to create extraordinary events.

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