SICMF 2025 - FESTIVAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT 2

🎼 SICMF 2025 – Closing Concert
🗓️ 13 July 2025 | 🕟 16:30 |📍 Endler Hall, Stellenbosch University

The final concert of the 2025 Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival brings together the full Festival Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antony Hermus, who makes his debut with the festival this year.

The programme begins with Fountain of Youth by Julia Wolfe — a punchy and vibrant overture composed in 2019 that sets an energetic tone for the afternoon.

Bram van Sambeek, widely recognised as one of today’s most inventive and expressive bassoonists, joins the orchestra for Nino Rota’s Bassoon Concerto. Rota, famed for his film scores (The Godfather, Romeo and Juliet), brings that same sense of melody and drama to this rarely heard gem.

To close, the orchestra performs Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 — a work of sweeping emotion, intensity and resolution, and a powerful way to bring this 20th anniversary edition of the festival to a close.

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