Liesl Stoltz, Rosamund Ender and José Dias in concert...an evening with French masters. Curro Durbanville 9 February at 7pm

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Liesl Stoltz - Flute

Rosamund Endler - Cello

José Dias - Piano

Come and join us for a recital of music by the great French composers Gabriel Fauré, Frédéric Chopin and Louise Farrenc.

2024 marks the centenary of the death of Fauré in 1924. Fauré composed his violin sonata in 1875. It is considered one of the three masterpieces of his youth. Chopin wrote three pieces that featured the cello, leading up to a much more substantial masterwork: the Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65, from 1845-46. The sonata was Chopin's last major composition. He dedicated the sonata to his friend, the cellist Auguste Franchomme. Together, the two played three movements of the piece at Chopin's final Paris concert on Feb. 13, 1848, just over a year and a half before the composer died.

Jeanne-Louise Farrenc was one of the most celebrated female piano virtuosos and composers of her era. Farrenc’s Trio for Cello, Flute, and Piano in E minor, Op. 45 (1856) is an example of her allegiance to the German masters. Between 1839 and 1862, she completed several sonatas, trios, quintets, a sextet, and a nonet for a variety of instrumental combinations. The E-minor Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano was the last of them.

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South African flutist Liesl Stoltz studied in South-Africa, France and Italy and won various international awards including first prize in the 12th Friedrich Kuhlau International Flute Competition in Germany (2007), 3rd place in the International Flute Competition in Timisoara, Romania (2007), finalist in the Leonardo de Lorenzo International Flute Competition in Italy (2005), and second prize winner at the Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Bucharest, Romania (1999). Local prizes include ATKV Forté Music prize (overall winner - 1999), SAMRO Music Prize (second prize – 2000), Huguenot Music Competition (winner – 1995) to name a few. She performed as soloist with all major orchestras in South Africa and regularly tours extensively giving recitals in South Africa and abroad. She is a part-time lecturer in flute and chamber music at the University of Cape Town and the University of Pretoria. Liesl was guest principal flute of the Johannesburg Philharmonic and the Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Rosamund Ender was born in Pretoria and started her musical education at an early age. She attended Pro Arte High School for the Arts and went on to obtain her BMus from the University of Stellenbosch, where she studied under Magdalena Roux. There she also completed honours degrees in both Latin and English Literature. During her studies she played with professional orchestras like the CPO and the KZNPO on a regular basis as an ad hoc player. Her studies next took her to Zürich, Switzerland where she studied in the class of Prof. Roel Dieltiens. She obtained a Masters in Music Pedagogy, as well as a Masters in Transdisciplinary Studies from the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. She was very active as a teacher in St. Gallen, Appenzell, and Zurich, and as a performer all around Switzerland. She was co-principal cellist with the Zürcher Kammerphilharmonie for six years. During the Covid pandemic, she started playing the viola da gamba after discovering a great passion for early music, and took private lessons with Paolo Pandolfo in Basel. In 2022 she returned to Cape Town to play full time with the CPO, and to focus on a career as a performer on the cello, the baroque cello, and the viola da gamba.

Portuguese-born pianist José Dias is a regular presence in concert halls and arts festivals in South Africa. In recent seasons, international performances have taken him to Portugal, Mozambique, Israel, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, including extensive tours of the Netherlands and Germany, with repeated appearances in such historic halls as the Berliner Philharmonie, Münchner Philharmonie, Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, among many others.

José has been the musical director of Cape Town Opera’s internationally acclaimed touring productions African Angels and African Passion, as well as Biblioteek Productions’ operatic productions Poskantoor, La Voix Humaine and The Recycled Magic Flute. Recently he wrote new music and took the musical direction of Piekniek by Mpande, a modern-day reimagining of the seminal Afrikaans protest cabaret Piekniek by Dingaan, as well as for the 2019 Fleur du Cap Awards Ceremony, at the Artscape Opera House. He is the recipient of several awards, from festivals such as Woordfees, KKNK, Aardklop, as well as kykNET Fiësta and Fleur du Cap Awards.

He was co-creator and curator of the RISE concert series in collaboration with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra - a platform for the display of young SA classical talent - and is also an avid supporter of contemporary music, having premiered several works by composers such as Arthur Feder, Braam du Toit, Hendrik Hofmeyr, Alexander Johnson, and Conrad Asman. Many of these (some written especially for him) have been recorded and are available on CD. José is also a sought-after piano teacher and a part-time lecturer at Stellenbosch University’s Music Department, working within the singing and choral conducting divisions.

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