Johannesburg Musical Society launches concerts

Starting 1 February, the Johannesburg Musical Society will launch a star-studded 2014 season.

Long a purveyor of top-class music, the society will present an exciting programme of concerts for lovers of brilliantly performed classical music.

The society has put together a variety of superb performers of all kinds.

Pianist Anton Nel, arguably South Africa’s most important musical export, will open the season with a recital on 1 February.

This concert is presented in collaboration with the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival and will feature music by Mozart, Schumann, Debussy and Beethoven.

The society will also present several other superb pianists during the year. Taiwanese star performer Ching-Yun Hu will play in Johannesburg in April, while Italian Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Russian Andrei Pisarev are also high-profile pianists who will entertain audiences in May and November respectively.

True to its mandate to present a variety of music and musicians, the society is also offering one of the world’s top brass ensembles.

The Harmonic Brass Munich, which has been called both addictive and dazzling, will show off its genial stage presence, technical excellence and musical skill in June.

Other concerts on offer are two of the world’s top performers on cello, Peter Bruns and Georgi Anichenko in February and October, and a superb all-Russian duo comprising violinist Ilya Gringolts and pianist Peter Laul in June.

Technically stunning and impeccably musical, flautist Cobus du Toit will present a unique programme alongside American guitarist Patrick Sutton in August.

Soprano Zanne Stapelberg, winner of Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Awesome Woman Award will partner with insightful and collaborative pianist Kathleen Tagg in September.

Booking is now open for all individual concerts at Computicket and Johannesburg Musical Society’s 2014 Season subscribers pay substantially discounted prices for all their tickets receiving free programmes at each concert.

All concerts take place in the Linder Auditorium at the Wits Education Campus in Parktown, where Café Siyafunda will provide excellent refreshments both pre-concert and during interval.

Details: https://www.jms.org.za, 011 728 5492, 083 228 2917.