Events
-
-
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 [...]
R100 – R280 -
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 -
-
Baroque Woodwind Study Day (2025 Cape Town Baroque Festival – EVENT 1)
Imbewu Music Centre, Westerford High School, 220 Main Rd (cnr Main and Mount Road, entrance in Mount Rd), Rondebosch, Cape Town, South AfricaThe 2026 Cape Town Baroque Festival, in collaboration with the annual Recorder Symposium, presents a study day focusing on woodwind instruments from the baroque period. Presenters will include Anna Stoddard with a lecture on the flute and recorder in baroque art, Ingo Müller (baroque oboe), Marion Treupel-Franck and Bridget Rennie-Salonen (traverso) and David Cyster (chalumeau). [...]
R100 – R200 -
Motet & Madrigal (2026 Cape Town Baroque Festival – EVENT 2)
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantMotet & Madrigal explores the evolution of two of Western music's most enduring vocal forms through the lens of instrumental performance. Beginning with the Trecento madrigals of Francesco Landini and the isorhythmic motets of Guillaume de Machaut, the programme traces a rich lineage that culminates in the expressive madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi and the architectural [...]
R100 – R280 -
Advanced Recorder Master Classes with Erik Bosgraaf (2026 Cape Town Baroque Festival – EVENT 1 continued)
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church De WaterkantVisiting recorder virtuoso Erik Bosgraaf presents recorder masterclasses to advanced students Date: Thursday, 24 September 2026 Time: 10:00-13:00 Venue: St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant Tickets: R200, R150 (pensioners), R100* *Also included in the above ticket is a study day focusing on woodwind instruments from the baroque period, taking place on Saturday, 19 September, 09:00-14:00 [...]
R100 – R200 -
The Road to the Symphony (2026 Cape Town Baroque Festival – EVENT 3)
Baxter Concert Hall Baxter Concert Hall, RondeboschSince 2015, the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra (CTBO) has presented all of its annual concerts on original baroque instruments (or copies of baroque instruments). Currently, the CTBO is the only ensemble in South Africa that plays all of its annual orchestral concerts on instruments appropriate to the baroque era. For the ‘The Road to the [...]
R100 – R280 -
Consort of Two (2026 Cape Town Baroque Festival – EVENT 4)
Sufi Temple, Newlands The Sufi Movement in South Africa, Cape Town, South AfricaWhat happens when music conceived for many voices is reimagined as an intimate dialogue between voice and viol? And what new colours emerge when songs are paired with one of the most expressive instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque? In Consort of Two, mezzo-soprano Lente Louw and viola da gamba player Rosamund Roth explore a [...]
R100 – R280 -
Meditatio Sonorum (2026 Cape Town Baroque Festival – EVENT 5)
Sufi Temple, Newlands The Sufi Movement in South Africa, Cape Town, South AfricaA contemplative journey through sound from the middle ages to the baroque featuring nyckelharpa viola da gamba and baroque violin. Join the newly formed Adamastor Consort for an immersive meditative journey through the soundscapes of the middle ages, Renaissance, and early baroque. The Adamastor Consort is an early music ensemble playing an eclectic selection of [...]
R100 – R280