AWARD-WINNING composer Grant McLachlan’s music, spanning 40 years, will be performed live at his upcoming 6th Birthday Celebration Concert at the Baxter Concert Hall on October 1.
McLachlan has composed music for a Brooke Shields movie Running Wild, as well as Mountain of the Sea, City Slickers, Faith like Potatoes, and The Jammed, for which he received an award at the Inside Film Festival in Australia. For the tenth anniversary of Animal Planet, Ocean Voyagers was screened in London’s Cadogan Hall with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing live to picture. He has since become a prolific composer for wildlife and nature documentaries.
The upcoming concert features chamber and choral music composed in the last 40 years. “I am fortunate to have friends and local artists who will play, including double bassist Leon Bosch who is flying in from London, Albie Van Schalkwyk on piano, Peter and Susan Martens (cello and violin), Lucia Di Blasio Scott (violin), Bridget Salonen, Tertia Visser Downie, Barbara Kennedy and the Herschel Chorale directed by Margie Barlow, ” he said.
“One of my personal favourite works, the Quintet, Oesterwal Landscape is being performed, as well as a premiere a new Sonatina for double bass and piano. And of course, Come, Colours Rise.”
McLachlan is passionate about encouraging young talent and a portion of the concert’s profits will go towards establishing a bursary fund to enable worthy young students to attend the annual Franschhoek Chamber Music Workshop. “The workshop is intensive training in chamber music, and it’s amazing to see the children grow as musicians and as people.
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