The winner of the 5th SA Conductors’ Competition, Jacobus de Jager, will conduct the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual tribute concert to the late philanthropist Huberte Rupert on 2 December.
The concert will take place at the Endler Hall in Stellenbosch at 20:00.
The soloist will be Sahkile Humbane, the South African flautist now studying at the Hochschule in Munich, who is being brought back especially to perform in this concert, which is sponsored by the Rupert Music Foundation.
On the programme are the overture to Rossini’s Barber of Seville and the “7th Symphony” by Beethoven, while Humbane will perform C P E Bach’s “Concerto for Flute in D minor, Wq 22”.
Humbane, currently co-solo flautist of the Baden Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, has appeared as a soloist with the CPO and also the KZNPO, and has won several competitions such as the Wakkerstroom Music Bursary competition, the Stellenbosch International Music Bursary competition, the National Youth Music Competition and Fine Music Radio Bursary Competition. He also won 1st prize in the Africa/Middle East category in the 2018 Yamaha Music Gulf Scholarship Competition.
Jacobus de Jager, who has also just won the Lionel Bowman Beethoven Prize at the University of Stellenbosch, is active as a pianist and a conductor, where he is studying with Nina Schumann Luis Magalhães. His conducting teacher is Daniel Boico.
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