Calendar

​FORTHCOMING
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Thursday 19 September 2024
Pre-Concert Talk: "Magnificent Mahler" – Mahler Symphony No. 7 (Arjan Tien)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Spring Symphonies at the City Hall
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​Saturday 5 October 2024
Harmony on Tap: VOX at Jack Black's Brewing Co.
Jack Black's Taproom, Diep River (18h30 for 19h00)

Wednesday 9 October 2024
Friends of Orchestral Music Sunset Soirée: Inside the Violin
Bowmans, Bree Street, Cape Town (18h30 for 19h00)

​Thursday 14 November 2024
Pre-Concert Talk: "German Requiem" – Brahms: Ein Deutsches Reqiuem (Bernhard Gueller)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Summer Symphonies at the City Hall
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​Friday 24 January and Saturday 25 January 2025
The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra at the Maynardville Open-Air Festival: Waves of Wonder
Maynardville Open-Air Theatre (20h15)

​PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS
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​2024

​​​​​Thursday 5 September 2024
Pre-Concert Talk: "Illuminating Elgar" – Elgar, Gideon Fagan (Anthony Marwood, violin/Arjan Tien)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Spring Symphonies at the City Hall
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​Saturday 3 August and Sunday 4 August 2024
"Tree of Life" with VOX Cape Town at the Olympia Bakery
Olympia Bakery, Kalk Bay (20h00 and 17h00, respectively)

​Friday 5 July to Sunday 14 July 2024
Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival 2024 (livestream presenter)
Stellenbosch Konservatorium

Thursday 20 June 2024
Pre-Concert Talk: "Honouring Youth" – Grieg, Dvorak (Isaac van der Merwe, piano/Bernhard Gueller)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphonies at the City Hall
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​Thursday 13 June 2024
Pre-Concert Talk: "Dutch Masters" – Handel, Mozart, Wilms (Jan Bartos, piano/Conrad van Alphen)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphonies at the City Hall
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​Saturday 8 June 2024
"Tree of Life" with VOX Cape Town at the Hermanus FynArts Festival
Dutch Reformed Church, Hermanus (18h30)

Thursday 6 June 2024
Pre-Concert Talk: "Tchaikovsky's Farewell – Schumann, Mozart, Tchaikovsky (James Austin Smith, oboe/Conrad van Alphen)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphonies at the City Hall
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)
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Saturday 25 May 2024
"A Peek Inside the VOX" – An open rehearsal with VOX Cape Town
Studio Rehearsal Room, Baxter Theatre Centre (11h00-13h00)

​Friday 24 May 2024
Organs (and Organists) in Cape Town
Fine Music Radio (19h00-21h00)

Friday 17 May 2024
Famous Organs and Organists
Fine Music Radio (19h00-21h00)

​Monday 6 May to Tuesday 7 May 2024
Adjudicator: Pretoria Eisteddfod 2024 (Choir Category)
Laerskool Tygerpoort, Shere​

Tuesday 30 April 2024
"Changing the world, one molecule at a time"
Bishops Science Cafe, 18h00

​Thursday 25 April 2024
Pre-Concert Talk: Autumn Symphony Concert 4 – Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Dvorak (Conductor: Martin Pantaleev)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphony Season
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​Thursday 18 April 2024
Pre-Concert Talk: Autumn Symphony Concert 3 – Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, Prokofiev (Conductor: Martin Pantaleev)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphony Season
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

Tuesday 16 April to Friday 19 April 2024
Speaker: "A Comprehensive Workshop on Pre-Clinical Drug Discovery"
Hosted by the H3D Foundation, EU-OPENSCREEN and Fraunhofer ITMP, Cape Town
  • Screening cascades, assay development and quality control
  • Chemical biology approaches for mode of action deconvolution and target identification

Thursday 4 April 2024
Pre-Concert Talk: Autumn Symphony Concert 1 – Mozart, Gershwin, Prokofiev (Conductor: Adam Szmidt)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphony Season
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​Saturday 9 March 2024
Presentation: "Seeding and nurturing a sustainable choral ecosystem – VOX Cape Town as a case study​"
Mzanzi Conductors' Convention, Cape Town International Convention Centre

While the core of any choir is its singers, its 'musical family' extends to a much larger community encompassing composers, instrumentalists, those who host and promote performances and, of course, the audience! Musicologist Christopher Small coined the term "musicking" to describe the process of bringing together the many aspects of a musical performance and the varied relationships that are established between the participants that contribute to that performance.

This talk will describe how VOX Cape Town, since its inception in 2015 and arguably the Mother's City most active and versatile choral collective, has developed a sustainable choral ecosystem by fostering an engaged cohort of singers and a supportive audience, establishing collaborative relationships with composers and instrumentalists, and disseminating choral music widely through its recordings and on radio. VOX has primarily done this through its immersive, imaginative performances that span a range of musical styles and which have explored innovative concepts such as wine-and-music pairings and singing in the dark. Critically, these activities are underpinned by an inclusive sense of community which was keenly felt during the pandemic when regular in-person choral singing was not possible.

By drawing on the dozens of projects undertaken by VOX over the past decade, this talk will highlight lessons learnt along the way and offer tips for choirs who wish to build an engaged and loyal following of singers and supporters.

Sunday 11 February 2024
Summer Sunset Symphony Concert with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra: Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Mozart
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden (17h30)

​Friday 19 January to Sunday 21 January 2024
The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra at Maynardville: Timeless and Immortal – Romeo and Juliet
Maynardville Open-Air Theatre (20h15)

​Thursday 11 January 2024
Pre-Concert Talk: Friends of Orchestral Music Benefit Concert – A Tchaikovsky Celebration (Soloist: Olga Kern)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Summer Festival 2024
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)
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2023
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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Sunday 10 December 2023
"A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" with VOX Cape Town
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant (10h30)

​Sunday 3 December 2023
"VOX 2023: A Musical Yearbook" with VOX Cape Town
Christ Church, Constantia (15h00)

Thursday 23 November 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Summer Symphony Concert 3 – John Williams, Elgar, Holst (Conductor: Robert Moody)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Summer Symphony Season
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

Thursday 9 November 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Summer Symphony Concert 1 – Debussy, Lalo (Conductor: Jeremy Silver)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Summer Symphony Season
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

Wednesday 25 October to Friday 27 October 2023
Global BioImaging Exchange of Experience VIII
Stellenbosch​​​

​Sunday 22 October to Tuesday 24 October 2023
African BioImaging Consortium (ABIC) Community Meeting 2023 (short talk and poster presentation)
Stellenbosch

Thursday 19 October 2023
Talk: Democritus Society
Bishops (Diocesan College) (13h00)

Saturday 14 October 2023
"Timeless Whispers" with VOX Cape Town
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant (11h00 and 20h00)

​Sunday 1 October 2023
"Welgemoed in Symphony" Sunset Concert with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra
Bellville Golf Course (17h00)

​​​​​Thursday 28 September 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Spring Symphony Concert 4 – A Celebration of Africa (Conductor: Robert Maxym)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Spring Symphony Season
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​Thursday 14 September 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Spring Symphony Concert 2 – Sibelius, Mozart, Mendelssohn (Soloist: Jayson Gilham, piano)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Spring Symphony Season
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​Wednesday 13 September 2023
"Bright New World: Harnessing fluorescence for exquisite insights into chemical and biological systems – a crash course"
H3D Foundation Webinar (12h00)
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Saturday 12 August 2023
"Eternal Echoes" with VOX Cape Town and the Chanticleer Singers
Bishops Memorial Chapel, Rondebosch (20h00)

​Monday 7 August 2023
"A day in the life of a drug hunter" (Why is it so difficult to make new medicines?)
U3A Cape Town Science Group, Zoom (10h00)

Friday 30 June to Sunday 9 July 2023
Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival 2023
Stellenbosch Konservatorium

Thursday 6 July 2023
"Alexander Borodin (1833–1887): The only chemist-composer"
The St James Retirement Hotel (15h15)

Thursday 8 June 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony Concert 2 – Rachmaninoff, Mahler (Soloist: Emanuil Ivanov, piano)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​Thursday 1 June 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony Concert 1 – Tchaikovsky, van Dijk, Mozart (Soloist: Jeffrey Armstrong, violin)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season
Banqueting Hall, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​Thursday 11 May 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Autumn Symphony Concert 4 – Liszt, Elgar (Soloist: Vitaly Pisarenko, piano)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

Thursday 13 April 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Autumn Symphony Concert 1 – Pärt, Dvořák, Brahms (Soloist: François du Toit, piano)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)

​​​​​​​​​Saturday 1 April 2023
A Meditative Guided Evening Walk with Site-Specific Poetic Readings, Dance and Music
Dylan Lewis Sculpture Garden, Stellenbosch (17h00)

Friday 31 March 2023
"Celebrating Péter Louis van Dijk" with VOX Cape Town
Endler Hall, Stellenbosch University Konservatorium (19h30)

Thursday 23 March 2023
Friends of Orchestral Music Sunset Soirée
Bowmans, Bree Street, Cape Town (18h30 for 19h00)

Sunday 19 March 2023
"Music for Children's Mental Health" with VOX Cape Town
Christ Church, Constantia (15h00)

Friday 17 March 2023
Requiem for Solace by Kim André Arnesen with VOX Cape Town
National Conductors' Convention, Cape Town International Convention Centre (18h00)

Sunday 12 February 2023
Summer Sunset Symphony Concert with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra: Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Dvořák
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden (17h30)

Monday 30 January 2023
Composer of the Week: Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) with Johann Gerber
Fine Music Radio (19h00-21h00)

Wednesday 25 January 2023
VOX at the UCT Summer School: Music Across Time with Grant McLachlan
Baxter Concert Hall (19h00)

Thursday 19, Friday 20 and Saturday 21 January 2023
A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and VOX Cape Town
Maynardville Open-Air Theatre (20h15)

2022
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Sunday 11 December 2022
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols with VOX Cape Town
St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant (11h00)
St Andrew’s Church, Newlands (18h30)

Wednesday 30 November to Thursday 1 December 2022
Malaria Drug Accelerator (MalDA) Semi-Annual Meeting
Palm Springs, California, USA

Thursday 10 November 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: Summer Symphony 3 – Smetana, Dvořák, Nielsen (Soloist: Alexey Stadler, cello)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Summer Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)

​Thursday 3 November 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: Summer Symphony 2 – Janacek, Prokofiev, Beethoven (Soloist: Alissa Margulis, violin)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Summer Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)

​Tuesday 25 October to Friday 28 October 2022
H3D Symposium: A Spectrum of Opportunities in Infectious Disease Drug Discovery to Enhance Global Health
Webersburg Estate, Stellenbosch

Sunday 16 October to Tuesday 18 October 2022
African BioImaging Consortium (ABIC) Community Meeting (short talk)
Cape Town

Friday 14 October 2022
Talk: Harmony of the Spheres: The life and work of composer-chemist Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Waterfront Rotary Club

Tuesday 11 October and Friday 14 October 2022
Inspirational talks for first-year chemistry students as part as the UCT Department of Chemistry's "Chemistry Week"

Saturday 24 September 2022 (Heritage Day)
"40 VOICES" – Spem in alium at the 2022 Cape Town Baroque Festival
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant (13h00, 14h00, 15h00 and 16h00)

Thursday 22 September 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: Spring Symphony 3 – Leonard Bernstein, Tim Kliphuis and Kevin Houban
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Spring Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)

Thursday 22 September 2022
Talk: H3D and the Discovery of MMV390048 
A Primer for Clinical Assessors within African Regulatory Agencies
Week 1 Live Tutorial: "Molecule to Market: Overview of Drug Discovery and Development"
Pharmacometrics Africa (15h00-17h00 SAST)

Thursday 22 September 2022
Falling Walls Lab Cape Town
University of Cape Town​​​​

​​Wednesday 21 September 2022
ChemCareers 2022: Careers in Pharmaceuticals
Royal Society of Chemistry panel discussion (12h30-13h30 BST)

Thursday 1 September 2022
Pre-Concert Talk (with Rodney Trudgeon): Spring Symphony 1 – Beethoven, Sibelius, Berlioz
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Spring Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)

Friday 26 August 2022
iCANX Talks Vol. 112 – Translational medicine underpinned by drug discovery: a malaria case study
Online (14h00-15h30 SAST)
Thursday 11 August 2022
2022 Intervarsity Chemistry Pub Quiz
Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch (18h00-21h00)
​Wednesday 10 August 2022
Music Among Friends
Fine Music Radio (20h00-22h00)

This programme will feature some of the recorded musical highlights from the 17th Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival held from 1-10 July 2022. Works will include the Piano Sextet by César Franck, the Octet-Partita for winds by Franz Krommer and one of the "new discoveries" of this year’s festival – the Quintet in G minor, Op. 34, by Juliusz Zarebski (1854-1885) played by Daniel Rowland (violin 1), Madeline Adkins (violin 2), Yuval Gotlibovich (viola), Maja Bogdanović (cello) and Luis Magalhães (piano).

Friday 22 July 2022
Insights from the interface of chemistry and biology: An overview of chemical biology approaches and capabilities at H3D
Holistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre Webinar Series with Kathryn Wicht (12h00-13h00)
​​​Friday 1 July to Sunday 10 July 2022
Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival 2022 (livestream presenter)
Stellenbosch Konservatorium
Thursday 30 June 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony 5 "Organ Vibes" - Dvorak, Poulenc, Mussorgsky/Ravel
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)

Wednesday 22 June 2022
Bishops Eisteddfod: The 50th Inter-House Singing Competition (adjudicator)
Cape Town International Convention Centre 2

​Thursday 2 June 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony 1 "Leo's Rachmaninov" - Schubert, Rachmaninov, Dvorak
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)

​Wednesday 25 May to Friday 27 May 2022
Grand Challenges Africa Convening of Drug Discovery and Data Science Approaches to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Africa Cohorts
Science for Africa Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
​Wednesday 18 May 2022
"A day in the life of a drug hunter"
Talk at The Commons for Science Café Muizenberg
Wednesday 11 May 2022
"Bright New World*: Harnessing fluorescence for exquisite insights into chemical and biological systems"
UCT Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) seminar series

* The title of this talk was adapted from the title of Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World", which itself is a quotation from Shakespeare's play "The Tempest". In the same way that Miranda is dazzled by the "many goodly creatures" on her island, so too have biologists discovered whole new worlds of structural and functional detail under the fluorescence microscope. This seminar was dedicated to the memory of Professor Timothy Egan (1962-2022), my PhD supervisor, who recently passed away and who encouraged my first explorations into fluorescence.
​Wednesday 4 May to Friday 6 May 2022
An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry

In this series of three lectures for the UCT Clinical Pharmacology Honours class, I gave a general overview of drug discovery followed by a case study around MMV390048 (H3D's clinical candidate that went into trials in Africa) and finally some contemporary aspects of medicinal chemistry, such as the importance of interdisciplinarity and the growing promise of AI and machine learning in the context of drug discovery.

​Thursday 14 April 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: "Northern Lights" - Grieg, Nielsen
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphonies at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)

Thursday 21 April 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: "Hommage à Peter Klatzow"
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphonies at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)

Friday 8 April and Wednesday 13 April 2022
H3D Roadshows: Women in Science
Stellenbosch University and the University of the Western Cape

Wednesday 16 March 2022
An Introduction to Scientific Writing
A afternoon workshop to share scientific writing tips and skills with the UCT Chemistry Honours class

​Monday 17 January 2022
Composer of the Week: Peter Klatzow (1945-2021)
Fine Music Radio (20h00-22h00)