Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre

Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre
Type	Public
Established	1986
Director	Dr Arisa Voges
Students	480
Location	Cape Town , South Africa
Website	www.hugolambrechts.co.za

Last updated October 24, 2019

Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre is a dedicated centre for the study of classical music for school-going pupils. Established in 1986, it is housed in one of the oldest school buildings in the northern suburbs of Cape Town.

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music. While a more precise term is also used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820, this article is about the broad span of time from before the 6th century AD to the present day, which includes the Classical period and various other periods. The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common-practice period.

Cape Town is a legislative capital of South Africa. Colloquially named the Mother City, it is the primate city of the Western Cape province. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.

Facilities

The old school building consists of 25 music rooms, used for tuition, chamber music concerts, internal and external examinations, meetings and small functions. The Centre Auditorium, a recent addition to the school building, seats 450 people. The Auditorium is used for student exposure to public performance as well as a venue for visiting national and international artists, as detailed below.

Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part. However, by convention, it usually does not include solo instrument performances.

An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances. For movie theatres, the number of auditoria is expressed as the number of screens. Auditoria can be found in entertainment venues, community halls, and theaters, and may be used for rehearsal, presentation, performing arts productions, or as a learning space.

Tuition

Students receive training in their choice of symphonic instruments including strings, woodwind, brass and percussion, as well as piano, singing and music theory.

String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve varying mechanical and electrical properties. It is a substitutional alloy: atoms of the two constituents may replace each other within the same crystal structure.

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Centre hours are from 10h00 to 18h00, since tuition takes place mainly in the afternoon. Each student receives an individual practical lesson with his/her teacher every week as well as an orchestral lesson, where the student gains experience playing in an orchestra.

Centre examinations take place at the end of the 4th term, to assess the student's progress made throughout the year and they receive a report.

Orchestras

There are 12 orchestras at Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre in which Centre and non-centre students participate. Students are given the opportunity to perform in concerts at the Centre which include: the annual Prestige Concert, Ensemble Concert, Orchestra's Concert, Open Day, Christmas Concert and Chamber Concerts take place every 2nd week.

Development programmes

The Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre has 4 development programmes to teach students from previously disadvantaged communities how to play various instruments. These students are also involved in the Centre orchestras and perform at several concerts held at Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre.

Associated Music Competitions

The Sanlam Music Competition is held annually in the Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre Auditorium.

External links

Official website

Coordinates: 33°54′27″S18°35′21″E / 33.90750°S 18.58917°E / -33.90750; 18.58917

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