Conductor Michael Repper Featured on Cape Town's CapeTalk

The GRAMMY®-winning American conductor Michael Repper returns to the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival this weekend, after his successful South Africa debut last summer. Michael will lead the orchestra and lead conducting masterclasses alongside conductor Antony Hermus.

Before heading to Cape Town, Michael talked with Sara-Jayne Makwala King from CapeTalk.

Listen to the segment here.

One of America’s most dynamic talents, Michael Repper is the youngest North American conductor to win a GRAMMY® Award for "Best Orchestral Performance," and the only conductor to have ever led a youth orchestra to win a GRAMMY®. His album with the New York Youth Symphony, featuring debut recordings of works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, and Valerie Coleman, reached #1 on the Billboard chart. He has performed twice on CNN.

His latest album, available August 1, celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and features world-premiere studio recordings of the composer’s tone poem Toussaint L’Ouverture and Ballade Op. 4 for Violin and Orchestra. The soloist is the GRAMMY®-nominated violinist Curtis Stewart, with the Washington D.C.-based National Philharmonic.

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