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Expect world-class musicians and music when this year's Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival (SICMF) kicks
off on 3 July. The Festival, now in its 12th year, brings the best local and internationally-acclaimed musicians together in 10 evening concerts on the Endler Hall stage.
And for those of you who can't be in Stellenbosch to attend the live concerts, don't despair. The performances will be available via livestreaming. For more info, festival passes and livestreaming of evening faculty concerts, visit www.sicmf.co.za.
This year's SICMF, which comes to an end on 12 July, boasts a packed programme of public master classes, lectures, coaching sessions and twice daily student concerts. The festival started out in 2004 as the brainchild of its Artistic Director, Prof Nina Schumann, and has grown to become the biggest festival of its kind on the African continent. About 300 South African music students will attend the 2015 festival, where they will receive coaching and master classes from the faculty of 30 international musicians at the Stellenbosch University Konservatorium.
A special feature of this year's festival will be the final of the SICMF International Study Bursary Competition, with a first prize of R200 000, making it the largest single bursary awarded by a South African classical music competition. The competition will be adjudicated by five SICMF faculty members over three rounds, culminating in the finals on Monday, 6 July. The finalists will perform a concerto, accompanied by the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tickets for individual concerts are available from Computicket. Click here for the full programme.
- To whet your appetite, watch a short documentary on the 2014 Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival here. This documentary gives a heart-warming perspective on much of the behind-the-scenes work that makes up the daily activities of the Festival.
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