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THE GREYTON POST
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information about the 2025 Classics for All Festival: 9-11th May. Tickets sales will commence in early March. Celebrating Two Decades of Melody: The 2025 Greyton Genadendal Classics for All Festival T he 2025 edition of the Greyton Genadendal Classics for All Festival marks an exciting coming-of-age performing in two concerts. Local pianist Philippus Hugo directs a special Mother’s Day concert on Sunday 11th and brings
of this popular event that has become a permanent fixture on the Overberg cultural calendar. The first Classics for All Festival in 2005 was attended by about 20 people. Now, twenty-one years later, the festival attracts classical music lovers and artists from all over the globe. At this stage the festival organizers are tight-lipped about the various concerts on offer at this year’s festival, but Coenie Visser, the director of the festival, promises a festival that is bigger and better than before, with some of the best local and overseas artists performing at the festival.
back on stage another artist popular with the Classic for All audiences, baritone Van Wyk Venter. A huge feather in the festival’s cap is the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra accepting an invitation to perform two concerts for the learners of our communities. If you suffer from FOMO, send your email address to Leone Rouillard at leonerouillard@ gmail.com so that you can be the first to get your hands on the programme and other
“The gala concert, in particular, is going to be a spectacular event, with the Windworx Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the Vivox Voices Choir and arguably the two best classical voices in South Africa today, the ever-popular soprano Brittany Smith and international baritone William Berger, fresh from their performances in The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady at the end of last year” Coenie dropped a few more hints - the young cellist who caused quite a stir at the 2024 festival and left concert-goers in awe of his immense talent, Ethan Lawson will be
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