Programme

Welcome to the 2025 South African Strings Convention.

Berthine is a sought after teacher, a Unisa music examiner and a part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria.

Leon Bosch is a double bassist known for his expressive bel canto style.

Workshop with Janna Kwheis & Odile Burden

With the Gqeberha Trio

Unveiling the Melody, Modes and Rhythm in Indian Music

My student is stuck in first position!

Lutherie as a profession and career option in South Africa.

Odeion String Quartet & OSM Camerata

Final Round of the SASF String Quartet Competition

Violist, educator, researcher and philanthropist Louise Lansdown is currently Assistant Head of Strings (viola) at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) and Professor of viola at the Yehudi Menuhin School (YMS).

Cross-cultural Sounds: South African Contemporary Solo cello works

Classical Guitar Composition for Non-Guitar players

Award-winning violinist David Bester is active as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist.

Teaching Movement and Posture: A Toolkit to Address Common Issues in Cellists

With Arthur Feder, Lise Morrison, Ivan Vukosavljevic & Lance Phillip

Featuring the Juliet String Quartet & East Meets West Ensemble

Orchestral Excerpts Preparation for SICMF 2025

The Journal of Southern African Strings

Ensemble Fons Partita & Viola Ensemble

Babette Roosenschoon (DMus, LLB) is a cellist who enjoys a career as teacher and performer. Her cello has taken her travelling across Europe, Southern Africa and to the USA, where she has performed, toured, studied and taught.

Senior Lecturer at Stellenbosch University, Violinist, Baroque Violinist, Teacher and Chamber Musician.

Pressing down a finger for the first time on the double bass: how to help young students and how the D-harmonic can help.

The Odeion String Quartet was established at the University of the Free State (UFS) in 1991 as a permanent full-time, resident string quartet.

South African music publication and the sustainability of local compositions: Annien Shaw, Babette Roosenschoon and Arthur Feder

Convention Ensembles conducted by Leon Bosch, harp soloist Marina Solomon

Improvisation in string pedagogy: musical confidence and creativity

Svend Christensen: a performance of Bernard Romberg’s cello Sonata in E minor arranged for four celli featuring an ensemble of Svencino celli discussing the mechanics of sound

Soundscapes of Tomorrow – Kefenrse Motshabi, Kitso Moreeng, Reitumetse Mosala, Azania Mosia, Christiaan Carelse and the US String Quartet.