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Visiting Italian harpist Claudia Antonelli and flautist Helen Vosloo will be performing Venue: Northwards manor house, Parktown, Johannesburg Cost: R200 per person: includes wine and a finger supper Bookings/Info: Jackie Downs This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , 083 5544636, fax 086 543 6386 Payment: Keiskamma Trust. FNB. Acc no 62059966097. Branch Beacon Bay 00250109, East London, ref music, Please fax or mail proof of payment to Jackie The benefit concerts are supported by The Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. Claudia Antonelli’s South African concert tour is made possible with financial assistance from the Italian Institute of Culture in Pretoria. Some art work and craft articles from the Keiskamma Art project will also be for sale. A special appearance by four students of the Keiskamma Music Academy. Italian harpist, Claudia Antonelli plays as a soloist in recitals and with orchestras in the most important Italian Musical centres like the Music Academy of Santa Cecilia, the Academy of Chigiana, La Scala Theatre, the Spoleto Festival, the Biennale of Venice among others. She regularly performs outside Italy in other European countries as well as in Australia, Canada, Brazil and Japan. She performed with the Virtuosi di Roma and Solisti Veneti,the Rias Berlin Orchestra, the Salzburger Mozarteum Orchestra, Hessisches Theatre Orchestra, the Prague Chamber Orchestra,the ORF Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and many other orchestras. In addition CLAUDIA ANTONELLI played at Carnegie Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall , Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Musikhalle and Beethovenhalle. She worked as soloist with conductors like Igor Markevitch, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Eduardo Mata, Leopold Hager, Peter Maag, Hans Graf and instrumentalists like Severino Gazzelloni, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Wolfgang Schulz, Andras Adorjan, Dino Asciolla, Bruno Giuranna,Garth Knox and Vladimir Mendelsohn. Claudia Antonelli has recorded CD for the Arts and Naxos labels. Many contemporary Italian composers have dedicated works to her which she premiered. She teaches Masterclasses at the Santa Cecilia Conservatoire in Rome.
Helen Vosloo is Principal Flute with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa. She appears regularly as soloist and playing chamber music. Helen has been the recipient of several of South Africa’s top music awards, which enabled her to make extensive study tours to Europe and the USA, where she has worked with some of the world’s leading flautists such as William Bennett in London and Peter Lukas Graf in Switzerland. In 2002 Helen was engaged as a member of the celebrated Tapiola Sinfonietta in Finland. While resident in Finland she also performed at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival.
South African composer Hendrik Hofmeyr dedicated his much acclaimed Flute Concerto to Helen and the cd was released by Distell in 2002. She has frequently had works by South African composers dedicated to her. She ventures into the cross- over genre with theWessel van Rensburg Jazz Piano Trio and their CD “Baroque and Blue” was nominated for a SAMA in 2005. Helen currently teaches part time at WITS. She is a member of the acclaimed Trio Hemanay, with whom she has toured Europe, theUSA, and recently released an album to great acclaim. She founded the Keiskamma Music Academy in rural Eastern Cape in 2006. |