The Cape Town Concert Series – South Africa’s leading chamber music and recital platform.
Forthcoming programmes, artists and booking details.
Founded in 1955, the Cape Town Concert Series is South Africa’s leading chamber music and recital concert platform- with artists also performing at venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York.
Their mission is to present the finest local and international artists available in the country – presented in the finest acoustics of the Baxter Concert Hall.
All our concerts now take place on Saturday mornings at 11am. They are presented in an intimate friendly way, with musicians often introducing their music to the audience and afterwards available to greet and answer questions from the concert goers, making these concerts unique and connected and the perfect start to the weekend.
It is the mandate of the Series to ensure these concerts are affordable to all and as such seek sponsorship to subsidise the ticket prices to more than half of what they would normally be.
The Venue
The Cape Town Concert Series has held its recitals in the Baxter Concert Hall ever since the Baxter Theatre Centre in Rondebosch opened its doors in August 1977. The Concert Hall, which seats 636, has superb acoustics, and boasts a fine Steinway & Sons Model D-274 concert grand piano.
Wheelchair positions are located in the Concert Hall . Please inform Webtickets at the time of booking if you need a wheelchair space. Toilets for patrons with wheelchairs are located in the public toilets at the far end of the Main Foyer.
Parking for people with wheelchairs is located at the Baxter Road and Burg Road entrances. A lift for wheelchairs in the Main Foyer allows access to the restaurant. Please contact the Front of House Manager on 021 680 3967 if you need assistance.
Book Tickets
Tickets are available from Webtickets or you can contact Louise at the Concert Series directly for further assistance on info@ctconcerts.co.za
The Cape Town Concert Series 2024 season draws to a close with the award winning Signum String Quartet bringing a very special project to South Africa. Bridge the Chasms That Divide is a celebration of newly commissioned South African works to honour 30 years of democracy interspersed with works of Haydn and Schumann. Featuring South African Xandi van Dijk on viola, Florian Donderer and Annette Walther on violin and Thomas Schmitz on cello. The project launched in Bremen on 27 April 2024 and the quartet will tour across South Africa in November.
The new compositions were especially commissioned by the Signum Quartet with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
The tour is supported by the “Goethe Institute” and Volker Schütte, South African Honorary Consul in Bremen (Germany)
You can read more about the project plan here: Bridge the Chasms that Divide – Signum Quartett
The concert starts at 11am in the Baxter Concert Hall
Performances of unsparing expressivity, intimacy and vitality are hallmarks of the Signum Quartet, pairing music making of the subtlest order with playing of the highest intensity. The dramatic composition of their programmes is innovative and distinct, and is realised with uncompromising perfection in interpretations of effortless transparency. (“enormously intelligent and knowledgeable programming”—Rondo Magazin)
The quartet has been a welcome guest at the Wigmore Hall London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie de Paris, Konzerthaus Vienna, Philharmonie Cologne, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and at the BBC Proms, with partners such as Nils Mönkemeyer, Dominique Horwitz, Jörg Widmann, Daniel Ottensamer, Nicolas Altstaedt and Elisabeth Leonskaja. In 2023 the ensemble will give its debut at Carnegie Hall in New York.
The Signum Quartet’s discography is a testament to their stylistic range: Next to the greats of the quartet literature, they have recorded works by Wolfgang Rihm, Thomas Adès, Jörg Widmann and Kevin Volans. Their recording of Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Second String Quartet Lost Prayers for ECM won Classical Album of the Year at the Estonian Music Awards 2021.
Following their multi-award-winning album “Aus der Ferne” (Diapason D’Or, Opus Klassik), the Signum Quartet continued its Schubert cycle for PENTATONE with “Ins stille Land”, deepening its exploration of the fascinating connections between his string quartets and songs. (“The Signum’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ is up there with the best from a crowded field”—The Strad)
In 2015, the quartet launched its innovative social media project #quartweet, where composers of all ages and abilities are invited to tweet a short quartet of 140 notes or less on Twitter. The project has received much media attention and been featured on Deutschlandfunk, BBC In Tune and BR U-21. Contributing composers include Bruno Mantovani, Grawemeyer Award winners Brett Dean and Sebastian Currier and Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw.
In 2022 the quartet established its Bremen-based project SIGNUM open space, supported by Neustart Kultur. This will be a site for rehearsals, recordings, workshops and education initiatives as well as an interactive exchange with the public. Additionally, there will be interdisciplinary projects such as exhibitions, readings, dance and seminars with renowned lecturers.
The Cape Town Concert Series gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Rupert Music Foundation.
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