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Piano concert played by Lara Kirsten

Lara concludes her Summer tour with this performance in one of the most scenic settings of Hermanus. A Yamaha Grand Piano will be specially brought in for the occasion!

The performance will be a celebration of the summer season – a delightful and stirring selection of classical and popular piano pieces for young and old. 

Some highlights to expect - the rousing Grande Valse Brillante by Chopin, the rollicking Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel and Katherine Cordova's transcription of Jacob Lawson's shimmering hit song Golden Hour.

R130 per person

R80 for scholars & pensioners

GRATEFUL FOR THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE HIRE OF THE GRAND PIANO:

Fynarts

Overstrand Arts Kunste (OAK)

Hermanus Music Society (HMS)

Heidi van E

WILD restaurant

Pear Tree Bistro / Char'd / Milk on the Beach

Fusion Restaurant & Grill

Burgundy Restaurant

IMPORTANT NOTICE: 

In case of unpleasant weather, the performance will be held in the Grobbelaar Hall of the NG Kerk, Marine drive

Sms's will be sent via Quicket in the event of any changes.

Location of Grobbelaar hall<

https://goo.gl/maps/N6xDNttRFkjYdvk97

Artist’s bio

Lara Kirsten is a pianist and performance poet. After completing her high school career at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg in 1997, Lara received her BMus and BMus Honours degrees, both cum laude at the University of Pretoria. Joseph Stanford and Wessel van Wyk were her mentors in solo piano and chamber music respectively. In 1999 she was awarded a SAMRO bursary for undergraduate students. In 2002 she received her chamber music licentiate from UNISA. She was appointed junior lecturer at the University of Pretoria where she taught piano from 2003 to 2005.

For the past fifteen years Lara has been active as both a solo and chamber musician performing with musicians such as coloratura soprano Linda van Coppenhagen, soprano Gwyneth Lloyd, tenor Sandile Mabaso, clarinetist Morné van Heerden, cellists Wessel Beukes and Francois le Roux, flautist Kaolin Thomson, pianist Laura Pauna and conductor Richard Cock and his Chanticleer Singers. She often performs her poetry within her music recitals. She has performed in venues such as the Sandton Theatre on the Square, the Baxter concert hall in Cape Town, the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, the Guy Butler Theatre in Grahamstown, the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg and Northwards House in Johannesburg.

Lara has performed at the Wakkerstroom Music Festival, the McGregor Poetry Festival, the AfrikaBurn Festival in the Tankwa Karoo, the opening ceremony for the International Aquarium Congress hosted at the CTICC, the Woordfees in Stellenbosch, the Hilton Arts Festival, the Michaelhouse Music Festival in KwaZulu-Natal and the Voorkamer Fest in Darling.

For the last fifteen years Lara has created and performed various installation/performance art pieces incorporating poetry, found objects, costume, body paint and calligraphy. Pieces include Ingrid Jonker Dans Weer, Frames, The Poem as Mirror, Tankwa Reflex and mond: asemrowende spelonk.

From 2014 to 2020 Lara served as adjudicator for the Pietermaritzburg Eisteddfod of the South African Society of Music Teachers.

In November 2019 Lara settled in Sandbaai in the Overstrand region of the Western Cape - her new base from where she currently works, rehearses and teaches.

Lara's poetry has been published in the South African literary journal New Contrast. In 2008 she became part of the Eastern Cape poet-group, Ecca, which presents readings and publishes collectively each year. In 2015, 2016 and 2017 poems by Lara were selected to feature in the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology. She has compiled and edited three poetry books Poetry @Steampunk Coffee (2017) and Poetry next to the railway (2018 & 2019).

Lara’s poetry, videos, photos and creative projects can be viewed on her blog at http://laraafrika.blogspot.com/

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