GERHARD JOUBERT RETURNS HOME FOR HUBERTE RUPERT MEMORIAL CONCERT
The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra will present the annual Huberte Rupert Memorial Concert on Saturday, 28 November, at 7.30 pm in the Endler Hall, Stellenbosch.
Through the generosity of the Rupert Music Foundation, the concert each year provides an opportunity to bring home an outstanding young South African musician who is studying or building a career abroad. This year’s featured artist is pianist Gerhard Joubert, who returns from Switzerland to perform Rachmaninoff’s spectacular Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
A graduate of the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, where he studied with François du Toit, Joubert is currently pursuing a Master of Performance at the Musik-Akademie Basel while also specialising in the fortepiano. An accomplished chamber musician as well, he has appeared several times with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and has earned first prizes in numerous competitions, including the National Youth Music Competition and the Seventh UNISA National Piano Competition. Most recently, he performed with Basel’s Ensemble Diagonal and presented a recital of Arnold van Wyk’s solo piano works to mark his 110th anniversary.
Making his Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra debut in November is the internationally acclaimed Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen, one of the leading conductors of his generation.
A commanding and imaginative musician, Inkinen has appeared with many of the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He will be making his South African debut conducting three concerts in the CPO’s Summer Symphony Season at the City Hall in Cape Town.
The programme opens with Sibelius’s evocative tone poem Pohjola’s Daughter, inspired by Finnish mythology, before Joubert takes the stage for Rachmaninoff’s dazzling Rhapsody a work that combines breathtaking virtuosity with some of the composer’s most memorable melodies. The concert concludes with Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 5, whose iconic four-note opening and triumphant finale have made it one of the best-loved works in the orchestral repertoire.
The annual Huberte Rupert Memorial Concert honours the memory of one of South Africa’s great patrons of music while celebrating the country’s exceptional young musical talent through the continuing support of the Rupert Music Foundation.
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