The African Renaissance Ensemble: Familiar and Obscure Highlights from the Renaissance and Baroque (Pretoria)

ABOUT

The African Renaissance Ensemble will be repeating our previous concert; a collection of hand picked delights from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including folk songs, dances, liturgical music and a concerto.

Tickets: R180 online, R200 at the door (subject to availability).

Do not expect a symphony concert. Our performances are not the formal affairs that one expects from a symphony concert, opera or classical chamber concert and neither is the music that we perform. In fact, almost all of the music we play predates the idea of a concert! You will certainly not find our musicians performing in suit and tie, so feel free to dress however feels appropriate.

We like to keep our concerts small, it is important to us that we can directly connect with our audiences. We want our audiences to feel like an active part of the event.

Maestro Adam H. Golding always speaks between the musical numbers, providing context and uses the music to weave together a story including anecdotes that range from hilarious to grotesque.

THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE ENSEMBLE

Dillon Davie - Guitar, theorbo

Adam H. Golding - Musical director, mandolin, recorders, tenor voice

Andrew Gould - Baritone voice, percussion

Doron Kanar - Sackbutt, baritone voice

Esté Meerkotter - Baroque piccolo, soprano voice

Leigh Sussman - Soprano voice, percussion

Joao Ribeiro - Countertenor voice, percussion

Tanya Spiller - Baroque violin

Hilton Anspach - Contrabass

Margot Smythe - Violoncello

Ute Smythe - Baroque violin, viola

And featuring the esteemed John Reid Coulter - Harpsichord, recorders and crumhorns