Classical and Jazz: Preview - South African quartet play for charity
Published: 2 December, 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
A FUNDRAISER is being held at Kings Place on Sunday for Musequality, a small charity promoting music projects for underprivileged, disadvantaged young people in the developing world.
The concert is part of the London Chamber Music Society’s series at the King’s Cross arts venue.
Playing at the concert will be the Quartet of Peace comprising four South African musicians, among them David Juritz, leader of the London Mozart Players and the driving inspiration behind the Musequality project.
The musicians play on string instruments made by master South African violin maker Brian Lisus in honour of the country’s four Nobel Peace laureates, the late Dr Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Along with string works by Bach, Mozart and Ravel at the Sunday evening concert will be the UK premiere of a new piece by Eugene Skeef, a London-based composer, called Uxolo meaning “forgiveness” in the Zulu and Xhosa languages of South Africa.