The Namibian National Symphony Orchestra (NNSO), in collaboration with the College of the Arts, will tonight and tomorrow evening host a classical music festival at the Deutsche Höhere Privatschule (DHPS) Aula in Windhoek.

 The events start at 19h00 and will be conducted by Christian Ludwig, the conductor of the Duesseldorf Symphony Orchestra. 

 The musicians from the NNSO, together with the guests from the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin (RSB), will perform excerpts from Bizet’s opera Carmen, and Namibian and German soloists will present a variety of musical pieces, mostly, but not limited to, the baroque and classic music epoch.

 “The Capricorn Private Wealth Classical Music Festival 2022 promises to be a lovely concert with variation, fun, and just pure pleasure of enjoying music,” said Irmgard Rannersmann, chairlady of the NNSO.

 Tickets are available at Webtickets Namibia at N$150 for adults and N$90 for pensioners and students. 

The NNSO is a group of musicians who perform classical music in Namibia. It includes amateur and professional musicians as well as students from the College of the Arts, who collectively work on classical music projects.

 Included in the orchestra calendar is the staging of the ‘Peter and the Wolf’ production in several schools in Windhoek, also under the baton of Ludwig. 

 The project is part of an ongoing partnership between the Lotto Stiftung Berlin and the cultural exchange programme between Berlin and Windhoek, supported by the German-Namibian Society and the German Embassy in Namibia. 

 “The NNSO and the cultural exchange programme aims to introduce young learners to classical music, giving them a chance to experience music instruments played live and at the same time, offering Namibian children a chance to learn a musical instrument at Youth Orchestras of Namibia (Yona),” said Enrico Palascino, initiator of this project.