Zimbabwe: Pianist Foxcroft to Perform in Harare

Zimbabwe: Pianist Foxcroft to Perform in Harare

The Herald (Harare)

8 September 2008
Posted to the web 9 September 2008

Harare

South African pianist Catherine Foxcroft will be the next performer at concerts hosted by Celebrity Subscription Concerts in Harare and by Performing Arts in Bulawayo.

Foxcroft will play works by Schubert, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Liszt in the concerts, which will take place at the Harare International School Theatre (Sunday September 14, 4pm) and the Robert Sibson Hall, Bulawayo on September 16.

Regarded as one of South Africa's finest pianists, she studied at the University of Cape Town and after graduating in 1990, she was engaged professionally with all the symphony orchestras in South Africa.

She later won a scholarship to enable her to study in Germany at the Hanover Hochschule fur Musik und Theater, and while in attendance there, she was a finalist in piano and chamber music competitions in the United States, the Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Italy and Germany.

As well as performing with a number of orchestras in Europe and South Africa and with the Odeion String Quartet, which recently performed in Zimbabwe, she has given master classes at Rhodes University, where she is a senior lecturer in piano and chamber music in the Department of Music and Musicology.

Foxcroft has recorded for the SABC, Radio Telifis in Ireland and Nord Deutsche Radio and West Deutsche Radio in Germany. Her CDs and live recordings receive heavy air play in South Africa.

Booking for her concerts is now open in both Harare and Bulawayo.