A South African Arts & Culture Magazine
The overall winner of the 2016 Hennie Joubert Piano Competition is Louis Nel, a 15-year-old pianist from Pretoria. The final round of this national competition was held on Friday, 18 March, in the Endler Hall in Stellenbosch. The Hennie Joubert…
Read more
When I start looking around for ideas for a new season I never know what the trigger will be. Sometimes necessity is the mother of great inventiveness. This time I discussed the `what to do scenario’ with the dancers, directors…
Read more
When I had a meeting at her studio (early last year (2015) to discuss the new work we were to embark upon in 2016) as always, I took an open mind, a pen and a notepad to write down the…
Read more
Playhouse Company to present 5th annual INGOMA COMPETITION SJ Smith Stadium (eWema), Lamontville 19 March : from 09h00 Free admission For the fifth year running, The Playhouse Company is proud to once again present its annual INGOMA COMPETITION from…
Read more
RENOWNED PIANISTS TO PERFORM AT STELLENBOSCH INTERNATIONAL PIANO SYMPOSIUM International and South African pianists will be in Stellenbosch from Wednesday 16 March to Sunday 20 March 2016 for the biannual Stellenbosch International Piano Symposium. This year sees the sixth edition of…
Read more
The hills come alive with classical music for the sixth consecutive year in the picturesque town of Wakkerstroom during the long weekend of 18-21 March 2016. The Wakkerstroom Music Festival is a non-profit organisation which aims to raise funds to…
Read more
ALBINI BINI born11 July 1899 and died 24 March 1998. She was both a pianist and an opera singer. At the age of 11 she began playing at a local cinema earning a monthly salary. She made her debut as…
Read more
The great Salif Keita. The Golden Voice of Africa. He needs no introduction. To me he was introduced in a blaze of light sometime in the early nineties when me and big Derek went to The Three Arts and watched…
Read more
Sempre Opera and the Sempre Opera Instrumental Ensemble kick off 2016 on Sunday 28 February at 15:00 with a performance of excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos and Die Fledermaus by Strauss. The first half of the programme is dedicated…
Read more
ANDRE BRINK born 29 May 1935 died 6 February 2015. He was one of the founders of the Afrikaans literary movement, Die Sestigers (the sixty-ers). His early writings were on apartheid but after 1994 he wrote more on the life…
Read more