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The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra musicians and international artists return with the fourth annual Franschhoek Chamber Music and Art Festival.
All ten concerts are held in the excellent acoustic of the historic Dutch Reformed Church and the guest artist this year is Miclen LaiPang, the violinist of the renowned Trio Zadig, associate artists at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Paris.
He is also the founder and artistic director of the Miesbach Chamber Music Festival and teaches at the International Chamber Music Academy of Southern Germany and at the Talent Summer Music Courses in Italy.
The concerts this year all feature masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire from Mozart’s Gran Partita to Beethoven’s Razumovsky Quartet, Schumann’s Piano Quintet, Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, Mendelssohn’s Piano Sextet and a chamber version of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. In all, CPO musicians are showcased in an intimate chamber musician setting which itself is set in lush grounds with awnings and food and wine to be enjoyed.
Guests who join the CPO in the ten concerts are concertmasters Farida Bacharova and Suzanne Martens, pianists Esthea Kruger, Pieter Grobler and Francois du Toit, and harpsichordist Erik Dippenaar.
Youth are also being showcased in the form of pianists Isaac van der Merwe and Gerhard Joubert, trumpeter Chad Groepies, CPYO/CPO ad hoc cellists Seul Pearl Yung and Ashlin Grobbelaar, violinist Gilah Kellner, and harpist Ricardo Hinnaker.
