Jeanette has performed in over a dozen countries worldwide and premiered a number of works in Chicago and New York. She has also performed in Canada, and in Chicago she premiered Paul Renan’s piano concerto ‘Antiphones’. She has accompanied New York mezzo-soprano Barbara Fusco, Spanish tenor Alvaro Vallejo, and South African cellist Peter Martens. She has appeared at the Grahamstown Music Festival with Pierre Amoyal, with the SABC Symphony Orchestra and the Pietermaritzburg. She has toured Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Russia, where she played with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Following this tour, she returned regularly to the Czech Republic, and was a permanent member of the jury for the International Smetana Piano Competition for over a decade.

Date: 16 September
Venue: St John’s College
Time: 15:00 pm
Tickets available at the door. Ecocash/swipe accepted

Concert Program:

Ludwig van Beethoven –  Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13
Johannes Brahms – Three Intermezzi for piano, Op. 117
Bela Bartok – Suite for Piano, Op.14
Robert Schumann –  Fantasie in C major, Op. 17

South African guitarist Derek Gripper released his ninth album, One Night on Earth: Music from the Strings of Mali, late in 2012. Recorded at an all-night session the album magically conjures anew a centuries-old ancient African musical heritage, interpreting kora compositions (21 string harp) on solo guitar, a feat which classical guitar legend John Williams said he thought was “absolutely impossible until I heard Derek Gripper do it.” When Kora maestro Toumani Diabate heard these recordings he asked his producer Lucy Duran to confirm that she had actually seen one person play this music on just one guitar. He immediately invited Derek to collaborate with him in Mali, an invitation which saw Derek performing at the Acoustik Festival Bamako in early 2016, the first international festival held in Mali since 2012.
The UK’s top world music publication, Songlines, called One Night on Earth ”a staggering achievement,” and selected the recording as a Top of the World album in 2013.

Date: 27 September
Venue: Jam Tree
Time: 19:00 pm
Cash bar available
Tickets available from Jam Tree, at the door. Ecocash/swipe accepted