Saxophonist Paul Richard, accompanied by Mareli Stolp, will perform in a free concert at the Rhodes music department tomorrow.
Saxophonist Paul Richard, accompanied by Mareli Stolp, will perform in a free concert at the Rhodes music department tomorrow.
The BA Honours student will perform works by 20th Century composers, Ned Rorem and Robert Muczynski (US), Roger Boutry (France) and 19th century French composer and flautist Jules Demersseman.
The concert, from 1.15pm to 2pm in the Beethoven Room, is one of a free lunch-hour series presented by the Department of Music and Musicology to showcase their senior performance students.
Born in France in 1986, Paul Richard obtained a bachelor of Musicology from the University of Franche-Comté in 2007 and after four years of studying with Cécile Dubois, he obtained his Diploma of Musical Studies for Saxophone in 2010.
He has conducted wind bands and ensembles for the past seven years, composed pieces for various ensembles and has taught saxophone and theory in schools since 2006 and registered at Rhodes University this year for a BA Honours.
Still to come in the free lunch-hour series, both 1.15pm to 2pm in the Beethoven Room, are Cameron Cordell (piano) on 7 November and Jacques du Plessis (piano) on 14 November.
