NMMU Choir to Present Wonderful World at St Mary’s Cathedral
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Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University’s choir under the direction of
Junita Lamprecht-van Dijk will present Wonderful World – a concert of
choral gems – in St Mary’s Cathedral, Central, on Thursday, 28 May
2009, at 7pm.
This concert is one of a number of concerts in preparation for the
Internationaler Chorwettbewerb (International Choral Competition) in
Spittal, Austria, in July this year. The NMMU Choir is one of only
eleven international choirs to have been chosen to participate in this
prestigious competition.
Apart from some
established choral works, this concert also sees the
premiere of a short new work, Chariots, by Peter Louis van Dijk,
specially composed for the competition.
Also performing will be the newly-appointed organist at St Mary’s,
Timothy Lees and Anathi Jindela, who will sing the evergreen What a
Wonderful World together with the choir. They will be accompanied by
the young American jazz pianist Andrew Wallesch.
Timothy Lees was born in the United Kingdom and from an early age took
an interest in playing organ and piano. He studied organ and voice at
the Royal Northern Conservatory of Music in Manchester as well as organ
studies in Haarlem, Holland and Salamanca, Spain.
In 1990, he moved to the Middle East to take on the unique role as
Royal Organist to the Sultan of Oman – unusual in that a ruling Muslim
monarch should have a passion for the pipe organ and classical music.
Returning to the UK in 2001, he resumed his teaching and choral career.
He will perform two solo organ pieces at the concert: March on a theme
by Handel “Lift up your heads” by Alexandre Guilmant and Fiat Lux (Let
there be light) by Theodore Dubois.
Tickets cost R40 (adults), or R20 (pensioners and students) and are
available from choir members or at the door.
Port Elizabeth Budget Accommodation
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