VARIATIONS (Event 1 – 2025 Summer Baroque Season)
Weltevreden Chapel Oranje Road, Noordhoek, South AfricaBACK DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND! These two performances are repeats of our award-winning and previously sold-out Variations programme. A popular genre during the baroque period was so-called ‘sets of variations’ or ‘divisions’: Composers often wrote variations and embellishments on songs, folk melodies or hymns. Members of the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, Ralitza Macheva (baroque violin), Erik Dippenaar [...]
SEASON PASS – 2025 Summer Baroque Season
Various venues across Cape TownThe Cape Town Baroque Orchestra (CTBO) presents their Summer Baroque Season of three concerts in February 2025 in various venues across Cape Town. The season includes a variety of baroque repertoire, including chamber, orchestral and vocal music, all played and sung by an exciting line-up of local and international artists. Click here for a downloadable [...]
STRING CONCERTI, PLUS A SUITE OR TWO! (Event 2 – 2025 Summer Baroque Season)
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantThe Cape Town Baroque Orchestra is joined by visiting baroque violin specialists Julia Wedman and Cristina Prats-Costa, from Toronto, Canada. Julia is also a member of the renowned Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra: They will lead us through a diverse variety of repertoire, including string concerti and concerti grossi by Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, and Muffat, as well [...]
QUEENS & KINGS (Event 3 – 2025 Summer Baroque Season)
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantSouth African-born countertenor Clint van der Linde has enjoyed a long and successful international career as an opera and concert singer. He is no stranger to some of the most prestigious stages in the world, including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. Lutesong Consort, along with players from the Cape [...]
‘Le Monde du Clavecin’ – a solo recital with John Reid Coulter (harpsichord)
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantOn Wednesday, 9 April at 19:00, John Reid Coulter will present a solo harpsichord recital which promises to transport audiences into the expressive soundworld of mid-18th century repertoire for solo keyboard. Join him at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in De Waterkant, Cape Town to experience a rich variety of works by the Couperin family, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jacques Duphly, Louis Marchant and Claude Balbastre, whose works range from expressive [...]
‘Alone and Together – The Joy of Polyphony’ – the Cape Town Baroque Trio at the Greyton Genadendal Classics for All Festival
Dutch Reformed Church, Greyton 46 Hoof street, Greyton, South AfricaThis program explores the evolution of polyphony through the Baroque era and earlier, highlighting the equal importance of every voice in the ensemble. The repertoire will begin with early consort music for three treble viols, adapted for two violins and one treble viol, and progress through later works, culminating in the intricate Three-Part Inventions by [...]
‘Enlightened France’ – Annien Shaw (baroque violin), Sarah Cunningham (viola da gamba), and Leon Schelhase (harpsichord)
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantEnlightened France highlights the grace and brilliance of 18th-century French chamber music. The Enlightenment era birthed some of the most expressive and innovative compositions for the harpsichord, violin, and viola da gamba. Join us for an evening of exquisite performances featuring works by Rameau, Couperin, Marais, and Forqueray. Click here to see the full programme. With: Annien Shaw (baroque violin), Sarah Cunningham (viola [...]