We welcome spring with an evening of music — in aid of a new space for our children’s ministry.
Every ticket helps make a new space for our children’s ministry possible — a place where our children can learn, play and feel at home. As with the Autumn Concert, the proceeds go directly to the project.
Familiar friends of our stage, together with new voices.
South Africa’s most performed classical composer. Won both the Queen Elisabeth (Brussels) and the inaugural Dimitris Mitropoulos (Athens) competitions in 1997. Italian diplomas in composition, piano and conducting. Emeritus Professor, UCT.
Head of the Singing Division at Stellenbosch University. Oratorio and lieder singer; finalist at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition (2009) and the AIMS Meistersinger Competition (2010). American debut in Beethoven’s Ninth with the Minnesota Orchestra. WoordTROfee for Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
Baritone, trained at the South African College of Music and later in opera under Prof. Virginia Davids. Winner of the Schock Singing Competition (2012); roles include Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Dapertutto (Hoffmann) and the title role in Don Giovanni. Also a career in Afrikaans popular music, with the debut album Net Hier By Jou.
Pianist, double bassist and vocalist across Cape Town’s classical, jazz and popular scenes. Has worked with Andrea Bocelli and Stephen Hough, toured Asia with The Sound of Music and Phantom of the Opera, and performed at the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and the Philharmonie (Berlin). BMus Honours, UCT.
South Korean pianist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist based in Cape Town, at home in classical, jazz, opera and musical theatre. Toured Asia with The Sound of Music; soloist at the Baxter, Artscape and the Cape Town and Durban City Halls. BMus Honours, UCT; winner of the FMR Bursary Competition.
Principal violist of the Cape Town Philharmonic since 2018. Master’s degrees from Stellenbosch and Hanover; seven years in Austria and Germany, including the NDR Radiophilharmonie and the Oldenburg State Theatre. Soloist debut with the CPO in 2021. Teaches viola at Stellenbosch and UCT.
Sub-principal bassoon of the Cape Town Philharmonic since 2023. BMus and DMus from the University of Pretoria; PGDip and MMus from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, as an RNCM and Oppenheimer scholar. Guest bassoonist with most of South Africa’s orchestras; formerly lecturer in bassoon at UP.
Sub-principal clarinet and bass clarinet of the Cape Town Philharmonic since 2022. Trained at Hugo Lambrechts, then in Ghent and Tilburg under Eddy Vanoosthuyse — a BMus and two Master’s degrees, all with distinction. One half of the award-winning clarinet duo Luna. PhD candidate in music at the University of the Free State.
Winner of the Hennie Joubert and Atterbury National Piano Competitions; runner-up at the 7th UNISA National Piano Competition, with Rachmaninoff’s Second. Concertos with the Cape Town and Gauteng Philharmonics. BMus and Honours, UCT, under François du Toit; 2026 masterclasses in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
BMus student in horn and composition at the South African College of Music, UCT — horn with Gene Kierman, composition with Grant McLachlan. His saxophone quartet Five Games, written at eighteen, has been recorded by the Tradewinds Quartet and is to be published by Universal Edition.
Cape Town violinist; Master’s candidate at UCT under Farida Bacharova after a cum laude BMus at Stellenbosch. Former concertmaster of the Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the Hugo Lambrechts Symphony Orchestra; soloist with the Cape Town Philharmonic; festival appearances at Woordfees and KKNK.
Born in Heilbron, Free State. BMus(Ed) and BMus(Hons) cum laude from Stellenbosch; performer’s Licentiates from UNISA and the Royal Schools of Music; Master’s at UCT under François du Toit. UNISA examiner. Pinelands Gemeente’s musician.
During her high-school years Suzanne completed UNISA Grade 8 examinations in piano (2005) and flute (2007). After school she chose to pursue a career as a mechanical engineer, while continuing to practise music as a hobby. She is a member of the Cape Town Chamber Choir, and sings and plays on occasion – including at Pinelands Gemeente, where she is a member of the congregation.
Violin teacher and school orchestra director in Cape Town’s Southern Suburbs. Twenty-five years training young string players and shaping school ensemble life. Currently on the music staff at Herschel Girls’ School.
Music teacher at Rustenburg Girls’ High and Bishops; conductor of the Rustenburg Orchestra and the Bishops College String Ensemble. MMus (Performance) cum laude, UCT. Studied under Jack de Wet at Stellenbosch. Thirty years’ teaching.
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