Full notes on performers, composers, and works will be available at Indaba events.
Programmes and artists subject to change.
** = South African première
*** = World première
Day 1
Friday 27 June
COMPOSERS IN CONVERSATION 1
Friday 27 June 18h00-18h45 | Café Workshop
OperaWorks director Mary Rörich talks to Dutch composers Theo Loevendie and Christina Viola Oorebeek prior to the South African prèmières of several of their works.
OPERAWORKS - THE CONCERT
Friday 27 June 19h00-20h30 | Beethoven Room
Beth Griffith soprano Walter Butt tenor Michael Blake piano Pauline Post & Nora Mulder piano duo Matteo Fargion amplified cardboard boxes
Sontonga String Quartet: Marc Uys & Waldo Alexander violins Xandi van Dijk viola Brian Choveaux cello Corinne Cooper sound
Theo Loevendie
Sonata for Solo Voice ***
Matteo Fargion
Donna che beve **
Mauricio Kagel
Recitativarie for Singing Harpsichordist
Ernest H.Papier
Tête à queue ni tête **
Christina Viola Oorebeek
Satie and his Sense of Shoelaces **
Theo Loevendie
The Barpianist **
Interval
Participants in OperaWorks - The Course
Opera Excerpts ***
Sponsored by Gaudeamus Foundation, Royal Dutch Embassy and MMINO.
Indaba director Michael Blake talks to composers Jürgen Bräuninger and Matteo Fargion whose music is performed during the following days.
FLOWERS OF THE NATION
Saturday 28 June 14h00-c15h20 | Cathedral
Indaba Festival Singers: Joy of Africa conducted by Makhaya Mjana Siyakhula Choral Group conducted by Sizwe Bali Siyaphakama Adult Choir conducted by Thomas T K Kolo Beth Griffith soprano
Johan Rautenbach guitar
Makhaya Mjana
New Music Indaba
Lihle Biata
Kumnandi ***
T T Mahlangeni
Emv'ekhaya
Benjamin Tyamzashe
Ezants'e Coalbrook
Priaulx Rainier
Ubunzima **
W A Majola
Udumo
Benjamin Myataza
Ingoma Phezu Kodonga Lomlambo
Christian Ngqobe
Amandla Omthandazo
Priaulx Rainier
Dance of the Rain **
Shalati Khosa
Afrika Tsonga
Michael Moerane
Della
Joseph Motuba
Rorisang Morena
Igor Stravinsky
Three Sacred Choruses
Sponsored by the Eastern Cape Government and SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts.
STOCKHAUSEN'S MANTRA
Saturday 28 June 19h00-20h00 | Beethoven Room
Pauline Post piano Nora Mulder piano Jan Panis electronics
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mantra for two pianists **
Sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation and Royal Netherlands Embassy.
SONTONGA QUARTET - LATE NIGHT SESSIONS
Saturday 28 June 21h30-22h30 | Beethoven Room
Sontonga Quartet: Marc Uys & Waldo Alexander violins Xandi van Dijk viola Brian Choveaux cello
Arvo Pärt
Fratres
Henryk Gorecki
String Quartet No 2 Op 64 (Quasi una fantasia) **
Marcus Wyatt trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion Carlo Mombelli electric bass, voice, loops Michael Blake piano, percussion Helen Hacksley cello Corinne Cooper sound
With simultaneous screening of the films by Maya Deren
Jürgen Bräuninger
Transfigured Ritual ***
Carlo Mombelli
Meshes of the Afternoon ***
Michael Blake
At Land ***
Improvisation
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Sponsored by the National Arts Festival.
KEMUS ENSEMBLE PLAYS MIKROPHONIE 1
Wednesday 2 July 19h00-20h30 | Beethoven Room
John Pringle, Claire Nozaïc, David West, Chris Coetzee, Jan-Hendrik Harley performers Mario Cronjé computer programming Hanno Smit sound technician Theo Herbst musical director
Hans Roosenschoon
Helios
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mikrophonie 1 for tam-tam, microphones, filters and potentiometers
With renowned music journalist and IAJ director Gwen Ansell in the chair, a number of Indaba personalities and guests discuss some of the issues raised by one of the two festival themes 'Sisters in the Mix'.
BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL
Thursday 3 July 12h00-13h00 | Beethoven Room
Beth Griffith soprano Michael Blake piano
Caroline Wilkins
Pas **
Meredith Monk
One Man Cha-Cha **
Beth Anderson
Tyger **
Ruth Crawford
Seeger Sacco, Vanzetti **
Johanna Beyer
Sky Pieces ***
Sorrel Hays
Anybody is
MIRRORING MAYA DEREN
Thursday 3 July 17h00-18h00 | Olive Schreiner Hall
Marcus Wyatt trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion Carlo Mombelli electric bass, voice, loops Michael Blake piano, percussion Helen Hacksley cello Corinne Cooper sound
With simultaneous screening of the films by Maya Deren
Jürgen Bräuninger
Transfigured Ritual ***
Carlo Mombelli
Meshes of the Afternoon ***
Michael Blake
At Land ***
Improvisation
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Sponsored by the National Arts Festival.
The SONTONGA QUARTET
Thursday 3 July 20h00-21h30 | Nombulelo Hall
Marc Uys & Waldo Alexander violins Xandi van Dijk viola Brian Choveaux cello Philip Miller sampler Corinne Cooper sound
Kevin Volans
String Quartet No.4 (The Ramanujan Notebooks)
Braam du Toit
trip songs for string quartet ***
Interval
Philip Miller
Z3 Song Cycle for string quartet and samples ***
Pauline Post & Nora Mulder piano duo Ancuza Aprodu & Thierry Miroglio piano & percussion
A concert of short new pieces for piano duo or piano & percussion written by the participants in the Composers Indaba during the preceding ten days. A unique programme of premières with the ink still wet on the page.
The concert will be preceded by a two-hour open rehearsal starting at 09h00 which is free to the public.
Sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Institut Francais Afrique du Sud, MMINO and SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts
Maurice Ohana
Etude n.XII (Imitations - Dialogues)
Daniel Teruggi
Phonic Streams
Betsy Jolas
Music For Joan **
Michael Blake
Ways of the dance
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kontakte
Sponsored by the Institut Francais Afrique du Sud
ESSENTIALLY ÉTUDES
Saturday 5 July 14h30-15h30 | Wits Theatre
Jill Richards piano
Matteo Fargion
Opera Studies
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Klavierstück 9
György Ligeti
From Études for Piano (Book 1: Nos. 2-4)
Kevin Volans
Three Études
Sponsored by the Rupert Musiekstigting.
KEMUS ENSEMBLE PLAYS MIKROPHONIE 1
Saturday 5 July 14h00-15h30 | Wits Theatre Downstairs
John Pringle, Claire Nozaïc, David West, Chris Coetzee, Jan-Hendrik Harley performers Mario Cronjé computer programming Hanno Smit sound technician Theo Herbst musical director
Sontonga String Quartet: Marc Uys violin Waldo Alexander violin Xandi van Dijk viola Brian Choveaux cello
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
uMagungqel' indawo
Trad/Dywili arr. Khumalo
uMagungqel' indawo
Andile Khumalo
uMagungqel' indawo
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Nontyolo
Trad/Dywili arr. Miller
Nontyolo ***
Philip Miller
Nontyolo Part 2 ***
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Latshon'ilanga
Trad/Dywili arr. Raynham
Latshon'ilanga ***
Julia Raynham
Malingatshoni ***
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Umyeyezolo
Trad/Dywili arr. Koapeng
Umyeyezolo ***
Mokale Koapeng
Komeng ***
Sponsored by Distell Foundation for the Performing Arts.
DOUBLE BILL
Sunday 6 July 19h30-22h30 | Bassline, Melville
Sontonga Quartet: Marc Uys violin Waldo Alexander violin Xandi van Dijk viola Brian Choveaux cello
Carlo Mombelli and The Prisoners of Strange: Carlo Mombelli basses, loops Siya Makuzeni voice Marcus Wyatt trumpet, flugelhorn Sidney Mnisi saxophones Lloyd Martin drums
Arvo Pärt
Fratres
Kevin Volans
String Quartet No 4 (The Ramanujan Notebooks)