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Marimba, vibraphone concert

Grocott's MailBy Grocott's MailAugust 22, 2013No Comments2 Mins Read
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Duo FourIVTwo, featuring Magda de Vries on concert grand marimba and Frank Mallows on vibraphone, present world premieres of compositions by Martin Watt, Fiona Tozer and David Cousins in Grahamstown on Tuesday 27 August.

Duo FourIVTwo, featuring Magda de Vries on concert grand marimba and Frank Mallows on vibraphone, present world premieres of compositions by Martin Watt, Fiona Tozer and David Cousins in Grahamstown on Tuesday 27 August.

Each being master of their instrument, the duo are holding a concert in the Beethoven Room of the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology at 7.30pm.

They will also be performing other South African works. Audience members can expect an informative performance of visual spectacle and rich, rhythmic sonorous sensations. On Wednesday 28 August they’ll be giving a free masterclass at 11.15am.

Mallows holds a MMus degree from the University of Cape Town and studied with Ed Saindon at Berklee College of Music (USA). He plays on a Musser gold bar vibraphone. De Vries obtained a post-graduate diploma with cum laude from the Tokyo College of Music (Japan) where she studied under Professor Atsushi Sugahara. She won most of the national music competitions in South Africa, and also won of the Performing Australian International Competition in London (UK).

She plays on a custom-made concert grand Marimba One marimba. The duo has performed with great success at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown; the Cape Town Concert Series in the Baxter Concert Hall; the Aardklop Festival (Potchefstroom); Northwards House (Johannesburg); Baroque in the Bush in the Kruger National Park; the Franschhoek Festival; ZK Matthews Auditorium at the University of South Africa (Unisa), as well as the Enoch Sontonga Conference Hall at Unisa.

They are featured on the CD Myths, Magic and Marimbas, which celebrated Peter Klatzow’s 60th birthday. They commissioned and premiered five South African compositions both in 2011 and 2012. Most recently they premiered two newly-commissioned South African compositions in Bloemfontein.

Concert entrance is R50, R20 for concessions Mallows and De Vries formed Duo FourIVTwo in 2003. 

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