 Autumn Season 2008
Thursday 22 May City Hall, 20:00
Conductor: Conrad van Alphen Mozart: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Overture K 384
The South African-born conductor Conrad van Alphen has delighted audiences and musicians in his performances of the orchestral repertoire. As artistic director and conductor of the Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra he has built this orchestra to one of the best orchestras in The Netherlands. They host their own concert series in Rotterdam. In 2005 Conrad was appointed chief conductor of the State Philharmonic Orchestra Kislovodsk, Russia, where he received an award for his contribution to the Arts by the Ministry of Culture. In recent years he has repeatedly been invited to conduct the major concert series of all the leading orchestras in South Africa including the Cape Philharmonic, the Johannesburg Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, Kwazulu Natal Philharmonic as well as the South African National Youth Orchestra. Anton Nel, winner of the first prize in the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall, enjoys a remarkable and multifaceted career that has taken him through North and South America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Following an auspicious debut at the age of twelve with Beethoven’s C Major Concerto after only two years of study, the Johannesburg native captured first prizes in all the major South African competitions while still in his teens, toured his native country extensively and became a well-known radio and television personality. Eager to pursue dula careers in teaching and performing he was appointed to the faculty of the University of Texas in Austin in his early twenties, followed by professorships at the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Michigan, where he was chairman of the piano department.
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