GLAAD withdraws support for COPE

The South African Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (SA GLAAD) herewith announces the withdrawal of it’s support for COPE as a party for which gay and trans citizens should vote in the 2009 elections. SA GLAAD’s reasons for this withdrawal are as follows:

COPE’s choice of Presidential Candidate – The appointment of religious figures in positions of political power and influence as a direct threat to secular democracy;
The appointment of a Presidential Candidate associated with a religious group which has in the past unequivocally demonstrated its opposition to GLBT rights and equality;
COPE’s apparent decision to change into a religious political entity and the threat this poses to equality for all in SA, particularly with reference to GLBT rights.
By appointing a religious figure in such a high office, COPE is taking on the mantle of a religious party - and we anticipate a threat that as such COPE could later form alliances with other religious-cum-political parties which are very, very far from gay friendly and anti-equality. It is no secret that some religious political parties in SA have been trying to reverse every single human rights gain GLBT have made in the last 15 years.

SA GLAAD views a secular democracy as the only safe way forward where ALL people in SA of all faiths, races, cultures and diversities can enjoy freedom and equality together. A President who is also an ordained religious minister and who had filled high offices in religious bodies – would simply by that fact alone ensure that SA would no longer be run by a secular government, but a theocracy – a country whose government is run by a church or religion.

While COPE is portraying Bishop Mvume Dandala as a moderate campaigner for human rights and an esteemed cleric with no agenda against equal rights for GLBT, a major point of concern for gay and transgender people with regard to COPE’s choice of presidential candidate is the discovery that Bishop Dandala is listed as a past Co-Chairperson of a group called SACLA (South African Christian Leadership Assembly).

Many will remember the role SACLA played at the time of the court battles surrounding the passing of legislation which legalized same gender marriage in South Africa. On its website SACLA describes this defeat in 2006 and the move to ‘restore marriage’ quite aggressively and emphatically as a quote “war” unquote. SACLA’s involvement in the fight against same gender marriage reveals this organizations (and ergo it’s leadership’s) narrow views on GLBT rights and equality. When Dr Dandala left this position is unclear, but nevertheless his association with this group is clear.

During his later tenure as head of the AACC (All Africa Conference of Churches) in Kenya, we have found no evidence that he has ever spoken out against or addressed the vicious church and state sponsored persecution of GLBT in African countries such as Uganda. Bearing Dr Dandala's association with a homophobic group like SACLA in mind, it raises questions about the likelihood of his impartiality in the matter of gay rights, specifically pertaining to his aspirations of acting as the country’s next president. Can gay and trans South Africans really expect fair and just treatment with full equal rights under a government led by this man?

Until this turn of events SA GLAAD endorsed both DA and COPE as the only two viable choices for GLBT citizens to vote for in the April elections – but now we no longer see any reason for gay and trans people to vote for COPE, nor to promote it any further.

Christina Engela
South African Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (SA GLAAD)

Like the inheritance of blue, brown or green eyes and red, blond or black hair, being gay is not a choice but a biological reality. Let us then proudly celebrate the colour that gay and lesbian people bring to this world as Joburg Pride ensures you your rightful place in the heart of South Africa’s culturally and biologically diverse rainbow nation.

Mixael de Kock
Executive Producer and Presenter
BRAVOBRAVA
South Africa’s only gay radio show broadcasting on:
1485 Radio Today and countrywide on DStv Audio Channel 169

Also see the follwoing write-ups:

• Hereunder and also more fully on http://curtaincallsa.blogspot.com 15TH OUT IN AFRICA SA GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL

Our Personality of the Week is Hugh Fraser who graduated from Wits University in 1987 with a degree in architecture. Growing up in apartheidsouthafrica, didn’t offer much opportunity for travel, which he yearned. With the opening of the stable door in 1990, he bolted.

Over the next 15 years, he divided his time between practice which eventually left him with an architectural gastrectomy; and travel and photography.





Eventually he fled clients and contractors and worked for the Cement and Concrete Institute promoting the concept of concrete architecture. He is currently employed by the PG Group, as the shard of glass, exploring exciting developments in glass architecture, which mirror technological advances in materiality.

For 20 years he has observed the built environment through film and digital photography. Almost without noticing, a huge archive has been amassed and the transition to digital photography has allowed us to change the way we view architectural photographic experiences. Time is not encapsulated like a video recording or a still, but a series of pictures that can stand alone; and when viewed as a sequence offer a refreshing unedited record of architecture.

Also on the shoe tonight is longstanding friend - and Capetonian! - Nopdi Murphy.

She will discuss The Out in Africa SA Gay & Lesbian Film Festival which is turning 15 this year and bringing some reel buds to the big screen this spring!

The Festival reflects the significant changes that Gay cinema is undergoing by truly reflecting reality and ousting stereotypes, offering a broad choice of films ranging from comedy to documentary, feature films and shorts, local and international titles. Among the highlights are Eytan Foxs’ The Bubble, Jamie Babbit’s Itty Bitty Titty Committee, the award-winning XXY directed by Lucía Puenzo, the Oscar-nominated documentary For the Bible Tells Me So by Daniel Karslake, the hugely entertaining Times Have Been Better and Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin.

While our films and the panoply of topics they touch on entertain, panel discussions and especially our guests turn the festival into a unique inter-active experience. Our guests this year are Emmy-award winner Bennett Singer (Director of Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, an award-winning documentary selected by Justice Edwin Cameron. The film reveals the life of the gay man who mentored Reverend Martin Luther King. Cameron will attend some of the screenings and engage with the director and Rustin’s life partner Walter Naegle, also a guest of the Festival.

Lisa Thrasher (Producer of Itty Titty Bitty Committee) is an Independent Film Producer and serves as the President of Film Production & Distribution for POWER UP (Professional Organisation of Women in Entertainment Reaching UP) – she will be running a Producer’s Seminar in Johannesburg and Cape Town, which are free and open to all – see the printed programme and website www.oia.co.za for further details.

Also in attendance will be Jamie Babbit, the Director of Itty Titty Bitty Committee. Babbit has enjoyed success as a television producer/director, serving as both for the WB television series Popular, as well as directing episodes of critically acclaimed shows such as Ugly Betty, the L Word, Alias, Nip/Tuck, Malcolm in the Middle and The Gilmore Girls.

Must see movies:
25 Cent Preview
A gritty, ‘in the moment’ gallop through the red-light district of San Francisco, this is a journey into the uncensored life, loves and tricks of its street hustlers. Honest, riveting performances and a fast pace ensures compelling viewing that reveals far more humanity and understanding than you would expect.

Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Shy, heartbroken Anna is a plastic surgeon’s receptionist. Her life is transformed when the office is defaced by sexy Sadie, a member of the underground women’s rights faction C(i)A or Clits in Action. Pulsating with a radical brand of gender politics accompanied by grungy, punk lesbian-rock, this loud, feisty activist comedy is an endearing introduction to dissident feminist groups and the ‘ballsy’ female anarchists who run them.

The Bubble
Hottie Israeli Noam and gorgeous Palestinian Ashraf drive this captivating ode to transcendental love – sexual, familial, and platonic – that encapsulates the surreal lives lived by young gays and straights, Jews and Arabs, men and women in Israel today. From the director of Yossi and Jagger.

Outing Riley
Laid-back and cleverly crafted, this light amusing coming-out family comedy disarms stereotypes and expectations of what a gay man is meant to be and how he is meant to act.

Times Have Been Better
In imitable quirky French style, the proud liberal parents of thirty-something banker Jeremy descend into crisis when he celebrates moving into a new house with his older, long-term boyfriend by finally announcing to the family that he is gay.

Savage Grace
Careening from New York in 1946 to London in 1972, via Paris and Spain, this true story with a stellar cast (Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne) charts one family’s descent from decadence into a dysfunction that would make Jerry Springer proud.

XXY
Living in a coastal Uruguayan town ‘problem’ teen Alex has been isolated and protected by her parents. A top plastic surgeon comes to assist with a solution. While the adults agonise over the conundrum of Alex’ gender, she and the surgeon’s closeted son get on with their own exploration of sexuality and identity. Beautifully shot, sparsely scripted, with stellar performances.

Documentaries:
For The Bible Tells Me So
In this thorough, positive and ultimately hopeful documentary, the filmmaker presents the complex subject of homosexuality and religion through personal and intellectual arguments that encourages people to examine their beliefs rather than mindlessly accept the preaching of others.

Panel discussions will be held after screenings in both JHB and CT – see printed programme and website for details.

The Festival is funded by:
The Atlantic Philanthropies, National Film and Video Foundation, Italian Institute of Culture, Goethe Institut, British Council, Cape Film Commission, Nu Metro, Exclusive Books, Killarney Mall.

http://www.oia.co.za/

15TH OUT IN AFRICA SA GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Johannesburg Thu 4th – Sun 14th September 2008
Nu Metro - Killarney Mall
Cape Town Thu 11th – Sun 21st September 2008
Nu Metro - V&A Waterfront

www.oia.co.za ▪ 021 461 40 27 ▪ info@oia.co.za

Tuesday, 22 July: Bryan Bester, Kurt van der Muller and Morne Ebersohn

ALSO IN THIS EDITION:

• Carol Lee Fine Art present STILL LIFE
• Highlights from the new edition of the gay magazine WRAPPED
• South African Tattoo to thrill audiences
• Programme of events to December 2008: Music in Sandton Central is now available on http://curtaincallsa.blogspot.com/
• BravoBrava Resident Astrologer, Anita Noyes-Smith's Zoul Centre newsletter, Soul News, now available from Website: http://www.soulzentre.co.za/
• See the exciting new edition of Gayspeak on http://www.gayspeak.co.za/
• CHA CHA HEELS taking drag from the doldrums to centre stage - see write-up on http://curtaincallsa.blogspot.com

INTERVIEW WITH ROELOF COLYN HAD TO BE CANCELLED. ROELOF HAD TO GO TO CAPE TOWN AT SHORT NOTICE TO SORT OUT A FAMILY MATTER. WE WISH HIM EVERYTHING OF THE BEST AND HOPE THAT THE PROBLEMS WILL RESOLVE!

We welcome Kurt van der Muller and Bryan Bester, Producers of the show Cha Cha Heels. We also chat to Morne Ebersohn, Publishing Editor of WRAPPED Magazine tonight.

Roelof Colyn is BravoBrava's Personality of the Week tonight. Together with his straight partner, Jonathan Roxmouth, Roelof gives a show of note in A Handful of Keys (see critique on (http://curtaincallsa.blogspot.com) which is on at the Pieter Toerien Theatre at Montecasino. Roelof talks to Mixael de Kock about his loves, hates and preferences in this frank interview.

In the photograph above right, Roelof is seen on the "right" side of Jonathan Roxmouth and, in the photograph on the left he sits closest to the camera, obviously stealing the show!

The show is a delightful romp through both classical music and musical theatre as well as pop.

Listen to this interview and win yourself and your partner two tickets to this smash hit - now already running for 14 years!

CAROL LEE FINE ART

presents a group show titled STILL LIFE with paintings and sculptures by

ALET SWARTS - RUDOLPH VOSSER - ROSEMARY JOYNT - COBUS HAUPT - GUY du TOIT - LORI SCHAPPE-YOUENS - JENNY PARSONS - EUGENIE MARAIS - MJ LOURENS - ANGELA BANKS - RETHA BUITENDACH - RUHAN JANSE van VUUREN
Venue: Upstairs@Bamboo
corner 9th Street & Rustenburg Road Melville Johannesburg
Opening: Saturday 26 July 2008 09h30 - 16h00
Please join for refreshments at noon
Road closures in the area on Sunday 27 July until 1pm - access from south, down 9th Street
Hours: Sunday 27 July to Sunday 3 August
10h00 - 15h30
Exhibition closes at 14h30 on Sunday 3 August
Enquiries: Carol Lee 011 486 0526

WRAPPED TAPPING INTO THE GAY MARKET

The emergence of a growing grey gay sector of the population has raised the question of suitable, gay friendly retirement villages. This is explored in more detail in the winter edition of Wrapped, including interviews with South African realtors.

A year since publisher Morne Ebersohn took over Wrapped, incorporating a facelift in the design and layout of the magazine, he explains how Wrapped has evolved into a magazine catering to a broad interest base.

“Our winter edition showcases a clean look, which is the direction we will be taking the magazine in the future. While fashion has a place, we have always explored current trends and delved into controversial issues experienced by this sector of the population.”

He says articles dealing with current topics in relation to the gay and lesbian population will always feature prominently, as these are issues experienced on a personal basis by the readers.

“I’d like to think we have achieved the right mix of hard hitting features with more relaxing reads dealing with travel, what is happening in the music and art scene, hot new restaurants and the latest fashions.”

December figures revealed the highest ever sales for Wrapped magazine, up by 60% and verifying that the needs of readers are being met.

This edition includes an interview with Watershed’s Craig Hinds, a look at tattoos, a test drive of the latest SAAB convertible and a fashion shoot highlighting the latest club gear shot on location in Therapy. The interior section features a Woodstock cottage, which has been renovated into a luxury city house.

Ebersohn proudly mentions the success of Wrapped led to the launch of a digital TV channel in May, which will serve as an extension of the magazine’s content and also allow readers to submit their own content.

The channel can be viewed at http://www.wrappedmag.com/, together with highlights from the magazine.

Currently on sale nationwide at CNA, Estoril Books and Exclusive Books, Wrapped is the only ABC audited gay publication.

Bridget von Holdt
InZalo Communications
011 646 9992 / 082 37 610 0650
bridget@inzalo.com

DUIGAN & RICHARDS PIANO DUO in the FREE STATE

24 July 2008
Odeion, Bloemfontein

19:30

Christopher Duigan is widely recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost concert pianists. He is maintaining a busy performing career since his professional debut with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra in 1991. Studies at the Universityof Natal with Isabella Stengel, the University of Cape Town (graduating with M.Mus.) with Lamar Crowson and Albie vanSchalkwyk lead to scholarships to the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where he studied with Brazilianvirtuoso Arnaldo Cohen.

He has performed extensively with all leading South African orchestras. Christopher is also an ensemble musician andaccompanist and regularly partners sopranos Angela Gilbert, Bronwen Forbay and Zanne Stapelberg.He has received the UNISA Overseas Scholarship Competition (1994), 1st prize in the Adolph Hallis Piano Competition(1996), awards for the best South African pianist in the UNISA International Piano Competition (1996) and the Cape TownSymphony’s Joseph Lan Award for his outstanding performance of the Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 (1994).

International performances include those in London at St Martins in the Field, St James’- Piccadilly, South Africa House and at theEdinburgh Festival 2001 and 2003.Based in KwaZulu-Natal, he is committed to promoting classical music locally and further afield. As concert promoter andimpresario he is the principal organiser of the widely acclaimed MUSIC REVIVAL, established in 1997.

Jill Richards’ passion for contemporary music started while she was a student at the University of Cape Town and has led toher being South Africa’s foremost performer of new piano music today. Jill has long been associated with new music groups,workshops and festivals - ranging from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (broadcast by the BBC) to SouthAfrican events such as the annual New Music Indaba, where she performs regularly.

She has been widely broadcast, not only in South Africa and the UK, but also in the US and Europe, and has released fourCDs, with the fifth to be released in 2008.Jill’s versatility means that she is equally at home with the standard repertoire, both as soloist and chamber musician. Her piano duo partners include Christopher Duigan, Kevin Volans and Michael Blake, and she has also worked with jazz composers Surendran Reddy and Denzil Weale.

PROGRAMME:

Brahms - Variations on a Theme by HaydnBrahms - Sonata for two pianos in F minor

Mozart - Sonata for two pianos in D major, K448.

ADMISSION:R70 (adults)R40 (pensioners, students, learners)

Tickets available at PACOFS, tel. 051 - 447 7772

The South African Tattoo

Featuring over 500 local and international performers -- is set to thrill audiences at Montecasino in Johannesburg from September 11 to 14.

The South African Tattoo blends the traditional spectacle of massed pipe bands with a uniquely African flavour and spectacular acts from as far afield as Switzerland.

The spellbinding show is modelled on the world-famous Edinburgh Tattoo – which draws an international audience of over 200 000 people and reaches a television audience of another 100 million. “Most of all the South African National Tattoo is an enthralling, foot-tapping, heart- pounding cultural extravaganza arranged to delight young and old,” says General Manager of Montecasino, Steve Howell. “The Tattoo is a tradition born in an ancient land and adopted in major cities throughout the world.

“The organising committee has a wealth of experience. Most are currently involved in pipe bands and highland dance bands and have recently participated in the Edinburgh, Basel and Moscow Tattoos.

“This is going to be a great show. We are proud to present the South African Tattoo and we anticipate it will become a popular annual event,” Howell said.The high-energy event takes place at Montecasino in their outdoor events venue. The show –maximises dramatic light displays – and runs for 90 minutes with no interval and back-to-back activity culminating in a grand finale.

The average length of each act is 10 minutes and many acts overlap for maximum audience attention.

“We promise to hold you spellbound – from the opening scene to the grand finale,” says Simon Carter, MD of MC2 who are producing the spectacle.

“One of the highlights will be the Top Secret band from Switzerland who have thrilled audiences at tattoos around the world.

“The show will also include the famous Navy Gun Run, precision marching, horseback displays by the mounted unit of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department; as well as the SAPS who will show their impressive dog squad acts and much, much more.

“We expect crowd favourites to be the massed pipe bands and precision marching of the Transvaal Scottish and other regiments, the Highland Dancers and of course our Zulu performers,” he said.

A charity performance will benefit the Walter Sisulu Paediatric Unit and organisers hope that sufficient funds will be raised by ticket sales to pay for a life-saving heart operation for a South African child.

Booking is at Computicket with special rates for groups. “We have deliberately kept the price low to make it an affordable show for the whole family, kids’ tickets start at R95 and the most expensive adult ticket is R187. There are a limited number of tickets available, so you are advised to book early,” Carter said.

Buz Publicity:
Bridget van Oerle
011 673 4995
083 263 6991
mailto:buz@buz.co/za%20/ anele@buz.co.za

Richard Loring: Life is a Journey, not a Destination - Tuesday, 15th July 2008,

WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN

· Five Double tickets to a performance of South Africa’s international smash-hit musical!

Also in this edition:

• A discussion on HARDlove at the Old Mutual Theatre on the Square in Sandton
• Elzabé Zietsman at Foxwood House
• The MTN New Contemporaries Awards 2008 and Exhibition at teh University of Johannesburg Art Gallery
• Carol Lee Fine Art presents group show titled STILLIFE
• A Fish called Molo! for two nights at the Wits Downstairs Theatre
• Bigwood 2 at the ARTspace in Durban
  
  

Following last week’s return to South Africa of African Footprint, one of the country’s best-loved musicals, theatre producer and director, joins us in the studio tonight as BravoBrava’s Personality of the Week.

Richard, who was born in Guernsey in the Channel Islands, has extensive experience in the entertainment industry as both a performer and producer. After a successful West End career, in musicals and records, he left London in the late 60’s to play Tony in The Boyfriend in South Africa, a country he soon adopted as his home.

Richard soon established himself on the local theatre scene and moved on to movie appearances, record releases and television shows. Remembered best for strutting onto the stage in high heels and odd socks as the Narrator in the 70’s smash hit Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the 80’s saw a major career shift from entertainer to producer.

During the past decade and more Richard has given South Africa specialised entertainment and major events for corporate clients. To this end he opened his own theatre, The Sound Stage, which established the norm for this field of entertainment.

Despite his busy career, Richard has found time to serve as Chairman of the Theatre Benevolent Fund, was Charter Member of Midrand Rotary, is a Paul Harris fellow and serves as a member of The Order of St John and has most recently been appointed Chairman of the Theatre Managements of South Africa. Richard constantly lives out his own philosophy that “Life is a Journey, not a Destination”.

A chance opportunity to see “Tap Dogs” in Australia inspired Richard Loring to create African Footprint – South Africa’s longest-running musical. However, the path to success was not always easy. Loring supported the cast and crew for a year and a half of creative rehearsals before his and the cast’s faith was rewarded - their first break – a performance before Nelson Mandela on Robben Island as part of the Millennium Celebration, which was viewed by millions on television!

Gold Reef City Casino recognised the potential of the show and African Footprint held its World Premiere at the casino’s then newly-built Globe Theatre, on 11 May 2000 in the presence of President Thabo Mbeki. The show’s emotive power brought many in the audience to tears and a member of the public exclaimed, “It should be obligatory for every South African to see this show as you leave with a sense of jubilation and optimism.”

Some of the praise the show earned from reviewers included: “All I can say is … Wow!”, “African Footprint makes its extravagant mark, iyavaya” and “Viva “African Footprints!” In that first year, “African Footprint” won 3 Vita Awards, including Best Musical Production.

Invitations were received from international producers to take the show abroad. Audiences around the world have applauded African Footprint with sustained standing-ovations. Loring kept the show on the boards for some nine years despite broken contracts and disappointments - their England tour was cancelled due to the Foot and Mouth epidemic and the 9/11 tragedy cut their USA tour short. In this time, some 200 performers, some coming from very humble backgrounds, were trained in dance skills and professional show disciplines. As top-class performers, many have moved on to start their own companies, to perform in other shows or in the lucrative industrial theatre market.

While it is international recognition and success one aspires to, it is the growth of those who have danced and sung on the journey with Loring that he finds most rewarding.

African Footprint, now one of the country’s best-loved musicals, returned to its home at Gold Reef City Casino for a four-week season from 5 July to 3 August 2008 at the casino’s plush new 1100-seat venue, The Lyric Theatre.

The inspiring show that celebrates the vibrant and diverse history and spirit of the people of South Africa has been spreading its message of optimism about South Africa around the world for the past nine years. During this time, the performers have touched hearts and minds from China, India, Europe, Australia, Morocco, Israel and England through to Mexico, Canada and the USA.

The show fuses the hypnotic heartbeat of the African drum, the cheerful pennywhistle and the inspiring words of Don Mattera with Kwela-jive, traditional gumboot, tap, contemporary ballet and hip-hop pantsula into an “explosive stampede of song and dance”.

"We're delighted to have African Footprint back at Gold Reef City” says Steve Hight, General Manager of Gold Reef City Casino. “After a critically-acclaimed tour in the US, the show returns to South Africa with a cast of 32 as well as new lighting, costumes and backdrops. The show is bigger and better than ever before and will be even more dynamic in our new world-class Lyric Theatre.”

Bookings are now open at Computicket and tickets are expected to sell out fast. Don’t Miss It!

Details from Computicket; www.computicket.co.za and (011) 248 5000.

ACT NOW!, an innovative initiative in the fight against the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, was launched at last week's special performance of African Footprint in Gold Reef City Casino’s plush new 1100 Lyric Theatre on 9 July. ACT NOW! is an exciting project that aims to unify the South African theatre world in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

The launch fundraiser event was a partnership between Arts and Culture Trust (ACT), Gold Reef City Casino and African Footprint, which provided ideal platform for the launch of this initiative.

ACT NOW! is a mutually beneficial fundraising framework for partnerships between ACT and the South African theatre industry. All proceeds from tickets sold on the evening will go towards setting up the fund for ACT NOW!, which aims to mobilise the performing arts in South Africa to raise funding for arts and culture projects that support the fight against HIV/AIDS.

The initiative is loosely based on the Broadway Cares model, an American initiative which creates AIDS awareness and raises funds for artists every year, on a particular week, on Broadway.

At the initiative of the US Embassy, the embassy’s Culture Envoy Joseph Norton, brought the Broadway Cares project to the attention of South African show producers a year ago. These producers included Richard Loring producer/consultant for the Lyric Theatre, who introduced the project to the Gold Reef City Casino management and motivated for the project to be linked with the return of African Footprint from the USA. The US Embassy has supported the project even further by buying the first 100 seats for the special African Footprint show.

“As the oldest funding agency for the arts in democratic South Africa, ACT receives many such applications for support. ACT NOW! will enable us to set up a fund specifically to support these kinds of requests,” says Pieter Jacobs, the projects manger of ACT. “ACT NOW! is an opportunity for the performing arts industry to give back to its own community while supporting the fight against HIV/AIDS.”

Says Steve Hight, General Manager of Gold Reef City Casino: “We are proud to support this worthwhile initiative with a special performance of African Footprint. Gold Reef City Casino believes strongly in the importance of giving something back to the community, and we believe that ACT NOW! will help to make a difference and benefit many South Africans. African Footprint, a uniquely South African production, is an ideal show to be associated with ACT NOW!”

For more information about ACT go to http://www.act.org.za/

This Saturday – 19 July Foxwood Theatre is honoured to present:
Elzabé Zietsman and Janine Neethling on fire.
Join in an unforgettable evening with these enchanting ladies. Cabaret raw and divine. Elzabé Zietsman - a diva with no boundaries.
19 July 2008 19h30




Tickets: R100 p.p. Optional Buffet: R 135 p.p.
Bookings: Pauline Mayne: 011 846 0935

Elzabé Zietsman's prolific career has seen her on stage, television, in cabaret and film productions. She has performed all over the country and is widely known to audiences for her starring role in M-Net's popular soap, Egoli. In the mid-90's during a run of her shows in Windhoek, she was spotted by a musical director who urged her to apply for the title role of Evita for a summer festival in Germany.




Elzabé performed Evita in 1996 in German and was invited back in 1997 to perform the role of Velma in Chicago and in 2000 the narrator in Cabaret, all in German. She was allocated solo cabaret shows at the festival, which proved extremely popular with German audiences. In 1998 she performed Brecht for the Goethe Institute who invited her to Berlin in 1999 to further her studies in German.Elzabé was directed by David Kramer in Jol and Janice Honeyman in True Confusions.



She played Wallace Simpson in Pieter -Toerien's Her Royal Highness and worked with Casper de Vries in Ziets & de Vries, which took the country by storm in 1990. In 2000 Elzabé and Amanda Strydom performed the sell-out, Strydom & Zietsman in Alphabetical Order. In addition to her numerous one-woman shows, she has starred in Darrel Roodt's film, The Stick and the internationally released film, River of Death. In 2000, she played the lead in the highly acclaimed Deon Opperman musical, Vere.



Elzabé recorded her debut CD, "XIII" in 1999 and toured with her show by the same name the following year. She has performed with many highly respected South African artists and regularly performs her cabaret shows for corporate functions.


CAROL LEE FINE ART

Will be presenting a group show titled STILL LIFE with paintings and sculptures by

ALET SWARTS - RUDOLPH VOSSER - ROSEMARY JOYNT - COBUS HAUPT - GUY du TOIT - LORI SCHAPPE-YOUENS - JENNY PARSONS - EUGENIE MARAIS - MJ LOURENS - ANGELA BANKS - RETHA BUITENDACH - RUHAN JANSE van VUUREN

Venue: Upstairs@Bamboo corner 9th Street & Rustenburg Road Melville Johannesburg

Opening: Saturday 26 July 2008 09h30 - 16h00

Please join for refreshments at noon

Road closures in the area on Sunday 27 July until 1pm - access from south, down 9th Street

Hours: Sunday 27 July to Sunday 3 August10h00 - 15h30

Exhibition closes at 14h30 on Sunday 3 August
Enquiries: Carol Lee 011 486 0526

At the Wits Downstairs Theatre:

A FISH CALLED MOLO !


VENUE: Wits Downstairs Theatre, Jorissen and Station Streets,Braamfontein
SEASON: 18 and 19 July @ 20h00
RUNNING TIME: Sixty Minutes (No Interval)
BOOKING: www.computicket.com / www.strictlytickets.com
ENQUIRIES: Dale Abrahams 073 398 1769

Dale Abrahams is an actor and comedian best known for his roles in the TV series Molo Fish, Dollars and White Pipes. Some of you may recognize him from the Cerelac baby food advert; he has also featured in the TV stand up Comedy series “Comedy Showcase”. He is also a regular on the Jo’ burg comedy circuit. His new show “A Fish called Molo” is a no- holds- barred and hilarious compilation of shady politicians, load shedding, air travel and his early childhood in Swaziland.

This is a must see for comedy lovers. The show has a limited season of only two nights at Wits Downstairs Theatre on the 18 & 19th July 2008.

Tickets can be purchased via Computicket or at Wits Box Office and are very reasonably priced at R 90,00( includes Computicket’s service charge ) and a discount price of R 80,00 ( includes Computicket’s service charge ) is available for students.
NB. No persons under 18 years of age.

Light meals and a full cash bar can be enjoyed in Café Dulce, situated in the Wits Theatre Foyer.
Free, covered parking in the adjacent Senate House (the entrance is on Jorissen Street) ensures peace of mind.

Bigwood 2007 - Background - The first Bigwood exhibition was held at Manna in Durban on Friday the 13th, 2007. A crop of Durban's most inspired and talented creatives came together to create something unique, fresh and memorable. It was good to be part of something that doesn't take itself too seriously and Bigwood's success is largely due to this playful approach.There were lumberjacks painted on tree stumps, plush forest critters, byro birds on school desks and an orange Yeti even made an appearance. Furry creatures that only come out at night, well... came out at night.We've retained this playful creative spirit for the next Bigwood event.

_______________________________________________________________________________[R]evolution Canvas presents Bigwood2 at artSPACE durban, Durban - July 18 2008.

Bigwood2 is being sponsored by [R]evolution Skateboards. This year's event will feature some of South Africa's best graffiti artists, designers and illustrators. All artists have a strong individual style, a unique and rare talent, and pack some heavyweight skills in their arsenal. It's also the biggest exhibition of this kind the country has seen to date. 2008's event sees over 40 artists taking part, with a strong Cape Town contingency this time round. We're proud to have legendary artists Senyol, Theory1, Sadmascot, twelve AmiCollective members and a host of other talented Cape Town artists involved.[R]evolution are generously supplying blank skateboards to artists to customize. These limited edition (one of a kind) decks will be on display at Bigwood2. See below for more info on the [R]evolution Canvas initiative. [R]evolution are doing good things for local artists.We're taking Bigwood2 to an international stage with this year's event traveling to Artspace Berlin in March 2009. As Bigwood (Bigwood artists and all those who support), we're pulling together collectively to have South African talent displayed to a wider audience. So drop by and show your support!For Bigwood2 we have the NoNoNo!!! DJ crew - the Eclectica Allstars - on the ones and twos! Leo Janssen, Hedmekanik and the Mixin Vixin will provide an appropriately wild and wonderful soundtrack.

_______________________________________________________________________________Date: 18th July 2008Venue: artSPACE durban - 3 Millar rd (off Umgeni rd), Durban, South AfricaTickets: R20 pre-sale / R40 at the doorTime: 19:00 till 2:00Limited tickets are available so get down there early. Or pre-book to avoid the cue.Mobile: 072 863 5923 or mail me: firebrand.design@gmail.comSafe parking. Cash bar.

_______________________________________________________________________________[R]evolution Canvas[R]evolution Canvas is a collaborative initiative to encourage and promote a positive change within society. Activist at its core [R]evolution is about creating, evolving, and empowering. We aim to spread a DIY ethos to encourage people to build a better future for themselves. As movement rather than a product, we strive to work with like-minded artists in a collective effort to educate and empower the youth of South Africa. Working with artists to make their art accessible to the youth, and in turn providing a platform to get their message across. Art is a medium that has no borders or boundaries, and by working together we can spread the message of change far and wide.http://www.revolution.co.za/

_______________________________________________________________________________Participating Artists 2008: am i collective (12 Cape Town artists),Justin Bailey,Pete Bircham, Brandt Botes, Marcel Coetzee,Andrew Donaldson,Ellomennopee (Tempest van Schaik),Philip Erasmus,Richard Hart (disturbance design), Roger Jardine,Joey Hi-Fi,Ruhan Janse van Vuuren, Matt Kay, Warwick Kay,Kronkh, Kim Longhurst,Gabriel Metcalfe,Christian Mugnai,Alistair Palmer, Kevin Parry,Trevor Paul,Richard Phipson, PlayOne WK?, Dirty Sanchez (Scott Robertson), Skullboy, Sadmascot, Senyol, Jenna Shone,Theory1, Colwyn Thomas, Ross Turpin, Wesley van Eeden, Hylton Warburton

The exhibition runs through Saturday, 2 August at 1pm.

artSPACE durban3 Millar Road (off Umgeni Rdnext to Waste Centre)Durban

tel: +27 31 312 0793

http://www.artspacedurban.co.za/

Gallery hours: M - F 10 - 4pmSat and Public Hol 10 - 1pm

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Charl du Plessis & Michael Bagg: Tuesday, 9th July 2008,

WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN!
· 5 give-away CD’s by the new group TRIO
· 2 tickets to a performance of A Handful of Keys


In tonight’s show we chat to an academic who is also an entertainer of “notes”. South African virtuoso pianist Charl du Plessis is probably best known as that superb accompanist to entertainer Nathaniel.

Trained both in the classics and in jazz, Charl recently launched an entertainment career of his own with his show The Pianist Monologues. He also founded the trio called TRIO. Get to know our BravoBrava Personality of the Week in this exciting interview broadcast from our Parktown studios.

Charl has donated 5 copies of his CD, TRIO, to BravoBrava. The first five listeners to correctly sms to us the name of Charl’s city of birth – sms on 071 226 8063 - each gets a copy of this fabulous CD! Also visit www.charlduplessis.com

Young marketer, communicator, actor, singer, dancer and pianist Michael Bagg joins show host Mixael de Kock and Charl du Plessis in the studio to talk about his own remarkable career and the exciting work he is doing for the Pieter Toerien Theatre at Montecasino.

The must-see show Handful of Keys (see our review at http: //curtaincallSA.blogspot.com) opened at the Pieter Toerien Theatre at Montecasino last Sunday for a six-week run and is already selling out fast. Pianists Roelof Colyn and Jonathan Roxmouth give superb performances. Hopefully Roelof soon will join us on BravoBrava for an interview.

Michael Bagg is giving away 2 tickets to a performance of this fabulously camp show. All you have to tell us is where the Pieter Toerien Theatre is situated in Johannesburg. Sms answers to 071 226 8063. The first correct answer to reach us will get the tickets!

See more about this show and forthcoming attractions at the Pieter Toerien Theatre at Montecasino by visiting http://www.montetheatre.co.za/

Don’t miss tonight’s show – the young moffies of today are mega-versatile and vastly interesting!
























Entrepreneur, Corette de Jager, a guest on our show a few weeks ago, produces the most original corporate gifts and branded items. She may be contacted on 082 069 5085 or email her on ckpromo@lantic.net

During the past week Mixael also attended a performance of the smash-hit play The Ex-Files at the Old Mutual Theatre on the Square in Sandton.

The Ex-Files or Is there intelligent life after divorce? - written and directed by JO WATSON. The incomparable cavewoman, VANESSA FROST and CARYN DAVIDOFF KATZ together with Craig Jackson, star in this comedy about the drama and downright dirty of being divorced!

Now you may very well wonder why a play about three heterosexuals should feature on BravoBrava? Well honey, we have news for you: Heterosexual divorces and homosexual divorces (on the increase since the marriage laws were amended) have everything in common, except maybe for the actual birth of a baby!

DIVORCE... it's the latest craze in both straight and gay society and everybody's doing it! Meet Helen, Hilda and Brian - an unfortunate threesome caught up in the uproarious aftermath of a divorce gone very, very dirty. Come and watch as these two wives bad mouth, battle and even box it out for the likes of Brian.

Now throw in some six year old step children, an unexpected pregnancy, an almost salacious sex tape, a bit of blackmail and a piping hot serving of Boeuf Bourgogne and you have the hilarious antics which make up this "Ex Files". Maybe an idea to take your ex along? Be daring!

The show comes back for one week 29th July-5th August. It is a must! Mixael gives the show a ***** rating in his review at http://curtaincallsa.blogspot.com/

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Tuesday, 8 April 2008, Dr. Ivan Toms

In the almost 30 months of BravoBrava being on the air, three of our Personalities of the Week have passed away.
Last year veteran actor Patrick Maynard died while on a working visit to London. And, last month, South Africa’s greatest ballerina of her time, Phyllis Spira, passed away after surgery to her feet. Next Tuesday night we will be broadcasting a tribute cut from Mixael's interview with Phyllis.
A few days after the demise of Phyllis Spira, came the shocking news of the death of the 54-year old Ivan Toms, Director of City Health for Cape Town.
Ivan contracted meningitis and died, alone in his house, only hours after the first symptoms of this killer disease manifested.
Stunned friends and colleagues remember Ivan as a larger than life character who had tremendous energy and huge passion for the country he loved and served.
Small in stature he could never be ignored as he made his boisterous voice heard whether at an official function or in the corridors of the Civic Centre where his office had sweeping views of the city he so adored.
Last month he completed his umpteenth Pick n Pay Argus Cycle Tour. He felt passionately and deeply about things. He wanted to make a difference and he did.
Ivan was buried from St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Friday last week. Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu, led the memorial service and said: “Ivor Toms was an utterly selfless and beautiful person. I thank God I met him.”
Toms is survived by a brother in Australia and his other great loves, his two Dalmatians, Timmo and Sammy.
In tonight’s broadcast we bring you highlights from the of BravoBrava interview with the late Ivan Toms.

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Wednesday 19 September 2007

Mixael presents

BravoBrava celebrates Heritage Day, this coming Monday, 24 September, by interviewing Personality of the Week, David Hart, formal Manager of the National Inventory at the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA/National Monuments Council).

David, who has been with SAHRA for fourteen years, was born in Zimbabwe, schooled in Malawi and South Africa and obtained his BA(Hons) Architectural History from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

He also holds qualifications in Project Management (UCT), People Management (Stellenbosch University) and Advanced level MS Access.

Listeners may participate in our discussions by adding interesting viewpoints and comments. Telephone lines will open at about 10:30 pm – and, the number to call is 089 110 2003. Remember, we love you and would really like to hear from you!

Leading tonight's discussion about South Africa's national heritage and the importance of its conservation, is Krynauw Nel, Pr. Arch, Chief Executive of Krynauw Nel Associates (Pty) Ltd who graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture in 1989. He also received several certificates of merit, particularly in his major subjects of “History of Architecture” and “Architectural Theory and Design”. He completed his first residential projects while still a student and spent a year travelling the Middle East, Europe and America.

In 1987 he completed a practical year with an architectural firm in London, specializing in upmarket residential work in areas such as Little Venice, Chelsea and Mayfair. He later formed a close association and collaborated with legendary British interior designer David Hicks, son-in-law of Lord Louis Mountbatten, for several years. Joint projects included work in Portugal, Cape Town and the Natal Midlands. After graduating, he spent a year with a commercial practice in Pretoria before setting up his own practice in 1994.

Krynauw’s work has been widely published and virtually every magazine, dealing with particularly residential design, has featured some of his projects. Several programmes on television have also featured projects by Krynauw.

Krynauw Nel is a qualified and registered architect. Krynauw is also a qualified and registered Estate Agent as well as a registered Sectional Title Practitioner. Membership includes the South African Council for Architects, Institute for the South African Architects, and Council for Estate Agents. He is currently working towards completing a second degree with rivate Law, Psychology and Latin as majors.
Krynauw’s practice has executed literally hundreds of homes across the country ranging from the modest to the grand, and from country to city. The practice actively avoids the confines of establishing a set style, preferring to focus on well-designed and detailed buildings.

The practice is also designing a new 5-star hotel on Poivre Island, Seychelles.

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Architect Herbert Prins, M.Arch(Cons); B.Arch; Dip T P;ARIBA; MIA;Arch SA, read architecture at the University of the Orange Free State and at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He obtained a Diploma in Town Planning, (1973) and Master of Architecture (Conservation) (1990).

At present he runs his own architectural practice, specialising in heritage conservation and active in community affairs, as well as heritage conservation bodies.

Recent practice includes the design of the temporary structure erected on Strydom Square, Pretoria for the inauguration banquet of President Thabo Mbeki.

He has been heritage consultant on numerous South African architectural conservation projects, especially in the renewal of Johannesburg's City Centre and adjacent areas.

Member of the Gauteng Provincial Heritage Resources Council (PHRAG); 2002 to 2006. Chairperson of various heritage committees including: The Witwatersrand Branch of the Simon van der Stel Foundation (now Egoli Heritage Foundation)The Panel of Assessors appointed by the NMC to advise on existing conservation legislation; changes to the Act and management of heritage resources in South Africa. The Witwatersrand Heritage Trust - the umbrella organisation for heritage conservation on the Witwatersrand (1980 to its demise in 2000): Member of the Committee 1980-1990. Chairperson 1990-2000). Member of the committee of the Johannesburg Heritage Trust from its inception in about 2000 to present.

Member of the Executive Committee of the Johannesburg Heritage Trust and Vice Chairman.

Herbert has received many awards during his long career amongst other the Gold Medal of Distinction of the South African Institute of Architects and the Gold Medal of the Simon Van der Stel Foundation (now Heritage South Africa).

Flo Bird, became involved in Residents Association work in 1973 with the rezoning of Parktown to offices. Battles against the freeways M3, M6 etc. followed, and in 1982 she started doing tours of Parktown. This proved popular and grew into the Parktown and Westcliff Heritage Trust in an effort to preserve the heritage of the old homes and lovely gardens.

Flo is Jo’burg born and bred. She attended Parkview Junior, Parkview Senior (interrupted by 3 very happy years in Lourenco Marques) Parktown Girls High School, the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) and Johannesburg College of Education(JCE).

Her grandparents were Johannesburg Pioneers (i.e. they came here before 1900) and her father gave her a strong sense of history. She served on the National Monuments Council for 10 years and have been active on heritage matters both in Parktown and Johannesburg.

Flo has been married for 43 years to a wonderfully supportive husband, John Bird. They have 3 sons and 7 grandchildren.

Gillian Condy was born in 1952 in Kenya and educated in Uganda and England. She trained as a scientific illustrator and received a Masters Degree from the Royal Collage of Art in London. She worked for four years in Botswana before taking up the post as resident botanical artist with SANBI at the National Herbarium in Pretoria, where she has been for over twenty years. She has designed fourteen sets of stamps for Botswana, two for Bophuthatswana and the set of Clivia stamps for South Africa (released in September, 2006). Gillian is also a founder member and past president of the Botanical Artists Association of Southern Africa (BAASA).
Gillian was a major contributor to the biographical section of Peeling Back The Petals: South African Botanical Art and has also illustrated two books: Geophytic Pelargoniums and Grass Aloes in the South African Veld. The latter features two of South Africa's most eminent botanical artists, of whom Gillian is one. Three paintings presented in this book and exhibited at the Kirstenbosch Biennale Botanical Art Exhibition in 2004 won Gold Medals - for the botanical artist this book has considerable interest, as each of the plants painted by Gillian is done with scientific accuracy in its natural habitat and immediate surroundings. Four pages of the book, with three A4 size paintings, explain how Gillian progressed her work to the final product.
The artist has received a number of awards: The London Linnaean Society's Jill Smythies Award, the Cynthia Letty Medal of the Botanical Society of South Africa, seven Gold- and three Silver Medals from the Royal Horticultural Society in London and two Gold- and two Silver Medals at the Kirstenbosch Biennale.

The Wine & Art Route is a 4 km stretch of our South African Heritage along Paarl’s Main Road. Curator, Johann du Plessis talks to us from the Rock in Paarl.

Born 1953, Frankfort, Free State Province, South Africa. Graduated with BA (FA) and (HED) from the University of the Free State in 1980. Du Plessis has exhibited widely both locally and abroad (Canada, Monaco, Spain and the U.K). He is represented in local and overseas private-, public- and corporate collections. Du Plessis has received numerous awards, including the FNB Art Competition, 1987 (overall winner); the 2nd prize at the 5th International Miniature Art Exhibition in Toronto, Canada; a merit award at the 15th Grand Prix International D’art Contemporain, Monaco. He was a finalist for the FNB Vita Art Now Award in 1995 as well as the Brett Kebble Art Awards in 2003.

Du Plessis has been involved in art education since 1981. He has been teaching / lecturing at Eunice Girls High, Bloemfontein, the Johannesburg Art, Ballet, Drama and Music School, Damelin-Eden Art Academy where he was Head of Department, Vice-Principal, and Principal. Du Plessis was examiner for Graphic Art Gauteng, till 2004. In 2005 he was co-founder and editor of CONTEMPO art & design magazine and is currently the curator / coordinator for Visual Art at the CULTIVARIA Festival 2007. He lives and works in Paarl, Western Cape, where he is a part-time lecturer at Boland College.

Du Plessis specializes in Graphic art (drawing, printmaking and collage). Traces of Dadaism, Minimalism, Formalism, Pop Art, Post- Modernism, Deconstructivism, * ”Neo-Pop, Neo-Confucianism or Neo-Claustrophobism”, can be found in his work.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Mixael presents

BravoBrava’s Personality of the Week has been described by the French newspaper, Le Figaro, as not merely a pianist of genius but undoubtedly one of the great artists of the twenty-first century. On unanimous public request, this great pianist and also composer of repute, and, as he has been called: an unsurpassed audience magnet and charmer, during his second tour of South Africa, played the second of three concerts with yet another triumphant performance last night at the Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg.

Last week, we spoke to him on the stage of the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, just prior to his recital there.

Tonight we chat to him, and you , the listener, from BravoBrava’s Auckland Park studios in Johannesburg.

Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say

Born in 1970 in Ankara, Turkey, Fazıl Say studied piano and composition at the Ankara State Conservatory. At the age of seventeen he was awarded a scholarship that enabled him to study at the Robert Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf. From 1992 to 1995 he continued his studies at the Berlin Conservatory. In 1994 he was the winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, which gave a rapid start to his international career.

Fazıl Say is since a regular guest with the New York Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France and other leading orchestras across the globe. He has appeared at all leading festivals and concert halls, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Musikverein, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York.

Say’s passion for jazz and improvisation led him to found a ‘Worldjazz’ quartet with the Turkish ney virtuoso Kudsi Ergüner. The quartet has performed to a triumphal reception in St. Denis, Paris, Montpellier, at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Istanbul Jazz Festival and the Juan-les-Pins Festival. In 2005 he made a return visit to Montreux appearing a.o. with Bobby McFerrin.

Fazıl Say the composer wrote the work Black Hymns at the age of sixteen. In 1991 he premiered his Concerto for Piano and Violin with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and in 1996 his second piano concerto Silk Road was given its first performance in Boston. His oratorio Nazim, based on poems by the famous Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet and commissioned by the Turkish Ministry of Culture, was premiered in Ankara in 2001 in the presence of Turkey’s President. Say gave the world premiere of his Piano Concerto no. 3 in Paris with the Orchestre National de France in January 2002.

His oratorio Requiem for Metin Altiok was premiered in 2003 at the Istanbul Festival. He has composed highly virtuosic adaptations for piano and orchestra of such works as Mozart’s Rondo alla turca and Paganini Jazz. The city of Vienna commissioned a ballet for Mozart Year, which was given its first performance there in 2006. He also wrote a new solo piece for the 2006 Salzburg Festival, Inside Serail.

In 2003 he was appointed ‘Artist in Residence’ by Radio France, a position he also holds at the 2005 Bremen Festival as well as – over the next 5 years – at the Konzerthaus in Dortmund.

Fazıl Say’s first recording, a Mozart disc released in 1998, garnered rave reviews from the press. His discography includes Gershwin’s 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'I Got Rhythm Variations' with the New York Philharmonic and Kurt Masur, a Bach recital, and Stravinsky’s own arrangement of Le Sacre du Printemps for four hands (in which Say plays both parts). He has received numerous international awards for this recording, including the 2001 Echo-Preis Klassik and the 2001 German Music Critics’ Best Recording of the Year Award. Another of his recordings couples Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no.1 (with the St Petersburg Philharmonic under Yuri Temirkanov) and Franz Liszt’s Piano Sonata.

His first recording under a new contract with Naïve, exclusively devoted to his own works, attracted international attention. The second, acclaimed worldwide as a significant Mozart release, presents three of that composer’s concertos with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra under Howard Griffiths. In 2005 a new CD was released with sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven, followed in 2007 by a CD with Haydn sonatas.

In the summer of 2005 the Franco-German television channel Arte shot a full-length portrait of Fazil Say which was broadcasted in early 2006. In 2005 a DVD production of his work for chorus and orchestra Nazim was filmed in Aspendos and released in Fall 2006.

Please revert to http://www.fazilsay.net/ for more information.