Classix & Operatix
Concerts and Recitals with Singers and Instrumentalists of Stature
Francesca Canali
Transverse flute
Francesca Canali, an exciting young Italian flautist, pays her second visit to South Africa in
February to perform two different concert programmes in Johannesburg and the W Cape,
and to offer master classes.
Canali is an eclectic and versatile musician based in Austria, from where she appears in
celebrated concert halls and at prestigious festivals as soloist and in chamber music
ensembles. She graduated cum laude in Rome, Paris and Salzburg under the teaching of top
flautists like Irena Grafenauer. Canali’s doctorate on new perspectives in teaching and
performing the flute has come to the fore in workshops, conference presentations and
master classes. Her virtuosity has also regaled audiences in Europe, South and Central
America, Japan, Russia and South Africa, and she has garnered numerous awards at national
and international music competitions. An open-minded and inquisitive personality, Canali
loves musical research, experimentation - and the discovery and performance of new flute
concerti.
Canali will be partnered by notable South African pianist and chamber musician Anneke
Lamont, who regularly performs with top local and international musicians. Lamont is also
renowned as a teacher, examiner, adjudicator, musical director and Imago therapist-life
coach. She was the accompanist for cellist Alexander Ivashkin’s tour of South Africa in 2005;
she is also a Unisa examiner and an official accompanist for their International Music
Competitions. Her rendition of Bach’s Goldberg Variations - the subject of her doctorate –
has received great critical acclaim.
The first Programme is '800 Romantico’. It features works by composers of the Romantic Era
and there will be four performances:
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in Pretoria on 22 February (for details contact promoter Hannie Hefer 0117932334)
as part of the Oude Libertas Summer Season Festival 2011/12 on Saturday 25
February at Oude Libertas Amphitheatre, Stellenbosch @ 20:15. Bookings at
Computicket or the theatre box office 021 809-7380/7473 – Tickets R140
in Robertson on 26 February (for details contact promoter Hannie Hefer
0117932334).
on Friday 02 March at Theatre on the Square, Sandton @ 12:45. Bookings through
the theatre box office 011 883 8606 or Strictly TIckets 082 553 5903 – Lunch Hour
Ticket price R30
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Classix & Operatix
Concerts and Recitals with Singers and Instrumentalists of Stature
Ms. Canali compiled the second programme, ‘Forbidden Music’, to reintroduce particular
composers whose careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Third Reich (1933
– 1945). Despite these composers’ important contributions to the development of classical
music, some of their works have languished in obscurity. Audiences can look forward to
pieces by Vally Weigl, Felix Mendelssohn, Bela Bartok, Olivier Messiaen, Sigfrid Karg-Elet and
Erwin Schulhof, on
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Saturday 03 March at The Atrium at Wits, Johannesburg @ 20:00. Bookings at Wits
Theatre on www.wits.ac.za/witstheatre or 011 717 1372 – Ticket prices not yet
available
• Website www.francescacanali.com for additional information.
© Hannie Hefer Promotions cc
PO Box 678, Fontainebleau, Gauteng, 2032
011 793 2334 t | 086 577 2603 f | 082 458 3522 c
www.hannieheferpromotions.co.za
hhpromo@mweb.co.za
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