Events
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Salsa Baroque – 17th and 18th century music from Latin America and Spain (Thu, 20 Nov)
Baxter Concert Hall Baxter Concert Hall, RondeboschThe Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, in collaboration with the Cape Town Concert Series and singers of Lutesong Consort, invites you on a dazzling journey where baroque music from the Old World meets the vibrant rhythms of the New World. Salsa Baroque celebrates the fusion of European polyphony with the infectious dances of Latin America, born [...]
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LOVE IN THE BAROQUE (Event 1 – 2026 Summer Baroque Season)
Parshuis (Historic Wine Cellar) La Motte, Franschhoek, South AfricaMembers of the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra present a programme of instrumental chamber music from the baroque period, centred around leading composers, the people who inspired them, and their passions outside the world of music. The programme includes music by Bach, Handel, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and Thomas Arne, as well as pieces from [...]
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BAROQUE KEYS (Event 2 – 2026 Summer Baroque Season) – Cape Town Concert Series collaboration
Baxter Concert Hall Baxter Concert Hall, RondeboschDuring 2026, the Cape Town Concert Series presents a season of concerts focused around its Steinway Grand Piano, which turns 65 this year and is considered one of the finest recital pianos in the country. To set the scene for this piano-focused season of concerts, the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra’s Artistic Director, Erik Dippenaar, presents [...]
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BAROQUE PLEASURES (Event 3 – 2026 Summer Baroque Season)
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantThe Cape Town Baroque Orchestra presents some of their favourite orchestral repertoire by Hasse, Handel and Corelli, together with arias sung by regular CTBO collaborator Lynelle Kenned (soprano). The concert will be directed from the harpsichord by the CTBO's Artistic Director Erik Dippenaar, and will feature CTBO principal players as soloists: Bridget Rennie Salonen (baroque [...]
R100 – R280 -
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BACH IN DIALOGUE (Event 1 – 2026 Winter Baroque Season)
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantThe Cape Town Baroque Orchestra presents Bach in Dialogue, a program of chamber works by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) performed by Annien Shaw (baroque violin), Rosamund Roth (viola da gamba), and Leon Schelhase (harpsichord). In these sonatas and keyboard pieces, each contrapuntal line shares equal importance, creating a clear and expressive musical conversation. The programme ranges [...]
R100 – R280 -
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IDYLL – Pastoral works by Charpentier (Event 2 – 2026 Winter Baroque Season)
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantExploring idyllic settings from a late 17th-century perspective, singers of Lutesong Consort (www.lutesong.co.za), and period instrumentalists of the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra, under the musical direction of Erik Dippenaar, present four works for solo voices and instruments by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704). Likely intended for performance in aristocratic salons and private circles, these works evoke an [...]
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WILHELMINE, SEBASTIAN, ÉLIZABETH, AND GEORGE – (Event 3 – 2026 Winter Baroque Season)
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantThe Cape Town Baroque Orchestra presents a programme of orchestral music by Wilhelmine von Bayreuth (1709-1758), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Élizabeth Jaquet de la Guerre (1665-1729) and George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): four composers linked together in diverse ways. The centrepiece of the programme will be Bach’s moving cantata Ich habe genug, BWV82, with William Berger [...]
R100 – R280