MEDIA RELEASE - FSSO Symphony Concert

Conductor: Daniel Boico
Soloist: Alissa Margulis 
Date: Saturday, 18 August 2018
Time: 19:30
Venue: Odeion School of Music, UFS

The Free State Symphony Orchestra invites you to its’ third symphony concert of the year featuring international guests Daniel Boico (conductor) and the graceful Alissa Margulis (violinist). The long awaited symphony will take place 7:30pm on August 18, 2018 at the Odeion School of Music, at the University of the Free State.

Due to circumstances beyond the control of the management of the FSSO, Bruch has replaced the promised Violin Concerto in d by Beethoven, with the gloriously lyrical Violin Concerto in g minor. The powerful and dramatic Egmont Overture by Beethoven and Schubert’s Symphony no 6 in C. will round off the programme.

Daniel Boico was born in Israel to musician parents and raised in both Paris and the United States, as his father Fima Boico, was concertmaster of Orchestra de Paris and the second violinist of the Fine Arts Quartet. Boico was initially trained as a singer before joining the class of legendary Russian conducting professor Ilya Musin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Russia. He has extensive experience in music administration, planning and programming, having worked as Manager of Artistic Administration of the New York Philharmonic and as executive assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Chicago Symphony and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as well as for Chicago Symphony.

Alissa Margulis -Violinist was born in Freiburg, Germany, into a family of Russian musicians. At the age of four, she started to learn the violin and the piano with Prof. Wolfgang Marschner. She made her first public appearance at the age of seven with the Budapest Soloists. At the age of ten, she won the first prize at the Spohr Youth Competition and at the German national competition Jugend Musiziert within the same year. She is a regular guest at international classical music festivals, and a privileged chamber music player who performs with a Guadagnini Violin dated 1754, a private loan from Jonathan Moulds. Alissa is an accomplished musician with numerous awards like the Pro Europa Prize awarded by Daniel Barenboim in Berlin (2002) and the Nouveau Laureat du Festival Juventus in Cambrai (2004).

This concert is in collaboration with the Odeion School of Music OSM, UFS and tickets are available from Computicket outlets as follows: Adults R150 Pensioners, UFS staff and block bookings of 10 and more people R100 Children 3 to 18 years R50

For more information on the concert contact Ella Kotze on 051 401 2342.