The City of Cape Town, together with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO), will host a free lunch-time concert at the Company’s Garden Restaurant on Sunday, 10 March 2013 between 13:00 and 14:00.
The programme will include light classical and popular music performed by the CPO and conducted by Cape Town’s maestro, Brandon Phillips, and presented by the CPO’s Outreach and Education Manager, Laurika Steenkamp.
The programme to be performed is as follows:
- Entry of the Gladiators – Fucik
- Hungarian Dance – Tchaikovsky
- Swan Lake Overture – Tchaikovsky
- Spanish Dance – Tchaikovsky
- Trepak (from Nutcraker Suite) – Tchaikovsky
- William Tell Overture – Rossini
- Toreador from the Carmen Suite – Bizet
- The Blue Danube – Strauss
- Duke Ellington Tribute
- Michael Jackson Medley
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Radetzky March – Strauss
“We are very pleased and grateful to the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, who will be delighting visitors with their performance in The Company’s Garden. We would like to see our parks being used for displays and performances more and more, as they provide an ideal space for people to enjoy the arts in a truly beautiful setting. They play an important role in making the arts more accessible to the average Capetonian,” says the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Community Services and Special Projects, Alderman Belinda Walker.
Members of the public who would like to spend a Sunday lunch-hour listening to the performance are invited to visit The Company’s Garden Restaurant or sit on the nearby lawns with a picnic basket in the relaxing setting and enjoy the open–air programme.
It is hoped that this will be the first of many such events arranged by the CPO’s Outreach and Education programme. The programme seeks to introduce the CPO to more Capetonians .
Brandon Phillips is the artistic director, conductor and principal bassoonist of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. He won the first Len van Zyl Conductors’ Competition in 2009, which granted him an internship with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and master classes with Professor Victor Yampolski at the Northwestern University in Chicago, United States. On his return, he also received master classes from the renowned Dutch conductor, Arjan Tien.
Phillips has conducted the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, the Free State Symphony Orchestra, the Black Tie Ensemble and the Unisa Symphony Orchestra. Among others, he conducted the CPO at the Youth Music Festival in 2011, which is one of the most important concerts for talented young South African soloists.
