THURSDAY - FRIDAY - SATURDAY - SUNDAY

 

 

Program Friday 26. February

St. Georges Cathedral

5 Wale Street Cape Town 

                      

Petra Ronning (CH)    Petra Ronner is a pianist and sound-artist based in Zürich, Switzerland. She appears as soloist and chamber musician, improviser and composer, is running a concert series www.gnombaden.ch and does artistic video- and soundprojects in the context of art and theatre. Recent concert engagements include John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano, Stockhausen Kontakte for tape, piano and percussion, Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire and new works by contemporary composers. Recordings at www.vexer.ch. - Petra is presently developing new works for piano and electronics with composers and improvisers in South Africa and Europe.

TBA (NO & SA)    An ad hoc ensamble will be put together during the festival with artists from South Africa and Norway. An edge of wrong collective.

Madosini & Derek Gripper (SA)         Madosini - 'The Veteran', as she is popularly known among the Bundu societies in Mpondoland - is an undisputed Queen: the great musician, composer, storyteller and the dancer of the time. Her music is extraordinary; unique not just in its scope but in its variety and the range of feelings it evokes. Since she is respected in the playing and making of Uhadi (berimbau), Isitolotplo (Jews' harp), Umrhubhe (mouthbow) and a legend in storytelling, you'll find that she also expresses feelings and thoughts of the ancient life.  Derek Gripper is a guitarist and composer creating fragile evocations of the austere landscapes of South Africa, in wordless song, instrumental compositions, arrangements of koortjies (chorus cycles), and music for strings, combining the techniques of classical guitar with the imagery and mystery of the rural areas of the Cape.     www.derekgripper.com  www.nme.com/artists/madosini#