Stellenbosch resident Jacobus de Jager, winner of the fifth SA Conductors’ Competition, will conduct the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra’s (CPO) annual tribute concert to the late philanthropist Huberte Rupert.
It will be held at Endler Hall in Stellenbosch on Friday 2 December at 20:00. The soloist will be Sakhile Humbane, South African flautist now studying at the Hochschule in Munich, who is being brought back specially to perform at the concert by the Rubert Music Foundation.
On the concert programme are the overture to Rossini’s Barber of Seville and the “7th Symphony” by Beethoven, while Humbane will perform CPE Bach’s “Concerto for flute in D minor”, Wq 22.
Currently co-solo flautist of the Baden Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, he has appeared as a soloist with the CPO and also the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, and has won several competitions such as the Wakkerstroom Music Bursary Competition, Stellenbosch International Music Bursary Competition, National Youth Music Competition and Fine Music Radio Bursary Competition. He also won first prize in the Africa/Middle East category in the 2018 Yamaha Music Gulf Scholarship Competition.
De Jager, who has also just won the Lionel Bowman Beethoven Prize at Stellenbosch University, is an active pianist and conductor, and is studying with Nina Schumann and Luis Magalhães. His conducting teacher is Daniel Boico.
Tickets for the concert can be bought online through Computicket, from Shoprite and Checkers outlets, and Dial-A-Seat on 021 421 7695.
