University of Cape Town

This student showcase concert features a selection of Classical performance and composition students at the College of Music, as well as works by South African composers. Join us as we celebrate home-grown young talent and music.

Opera UCT makes history with the world-première staging of Donizetti’s opera Dalinda.

The seventeenth edition of this annual competition for ensemble playing, sponsored by the Schock Foundation. This final round will feature ensembles selected from the chamber music concerts throughout the year.

Bowed Electrons (BE) @ UCT is an annual festival and symposium hosted by the SACM. The event offers a platform for performances of electro-acoustic music by invited composers and it also serves as a discussion forum.

The 21st edition of the Laura Searle Prize for Piano Concerto Playing, which is open to all piano students of the SACM. Part of the prize is the perform with the UCT Symphony Orchestra next year.

For this concert UCT String Ensemble joins forces with the strings of the Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Orchestra to perform Händel, Mozart and South African composer Hans Huyssen.

The Cape Town Marimba Festival is a joint venture between the Cape Town Big Band Jazz Festival and Woodworx Marimbas.

The Cape Town Woodwind Festival presents the Cape Town Philharmonic Woodwinds: Gabriele von Dürckheim (flute), Lisa White (oboe), Ferrol-Jon Davids (clarinet) and Simon Ball (bassoon).

Led by rising vocal artist Esha Parbhoo, Ragas Beyond Borders aims to celebrate cultural diversity by blending Indian and Western musical traditions.

The David Aldred Memorial Prize for Sopranos with each participant includes one of Strauss’s Four Last Songs in her programme.