(Jacqueline Martens)
The next recital
from Friends of Music takes place on April 25 at the Durban Jewish Centre. It
will feature Jacqueline Martens and Sulayman Human.
Jacqueline Martens
was born in South Africa and moved to UK when she was five years old. She has
performed at venues such as Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall and
Eaton Square. In 2013 she played Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 with the Chandos
Symphony Orchestra and in 2014 took part in the sold-out concert in the Royal
Albert Hall. Over the last two and a half years she has lead the London
Firebird Orchestra. She is now on trial as an extra first violinist in the
London Philharmonic Orchestra and will lead the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
in 2017. She plays on a 1754 Bairhoff violin loaned to her by the Royal College
of Music.
Sulayman Human was
the youngest winner of the Lionel Bowman Beethoven Bursary Competition in 2010 but
the first and only person to date to have won it whilst still in secondary
school. In 2012, he won three competitions, namely, Hennie Joubert National
Piano competition and Atterbury National Piano competition. In 2013, he was the
overall winner of the SACS music competition and in 2015 he was a semi finalist
at the 2015 UNISA National competition .
Their programme
will include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Adagio in E major, K 261; Hendrik
Hofmeyr’s Laumereva and Richard
Strauss’s Sonata for violin and piano in E flat Major, op.18 followed by Ludwig
von Beethoven’s Sonata no.1 in D Major op.12; Jules Massenet’s Meditation from Thais Camille, and Saint-
Saens’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, op.28.
The Prelude
Performer for the evening will be soprano Lungile Cele, a grade 12 student at
Northlands Girls High School where she is learning music with Jenny Bonsignore.
She will play Le Violette by Scarlatti;
Yizwa Ukukhala Kwam by Qinisela
Sibisi and Moonfall from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert
Holmes. Her accompanist will be Bobby Mills.
The recital will
take place on April 25 at 07h30 at the Durban Jewish Centre, 44 K.E. Masinga
(Old Fort) Road, Durban. Tickets R100 (R80 FOM members; R20 Orchestral &
Students):
Friends of Music is
funded by the National Lotteries Commission.
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