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Cape Classic is a chamber music festival held annually in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Cape Classic stages benefit concerts for charity. Profits made from ticket sales are donated to local trusts and non-profit organisations to fund community projects.



Cape Classic 2010

The Cape Classic Festival is from 24 February to 6 March 2010.
Information about the programme >


Cspe Classic 2010
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We hope we'll meet you at our 2010 concerts!



Donations 2009

The donations from the proceeds of the Cape Classic 2009 concerts were November 2009 presented. The supported projects were:
- the "Jamestown Sounds Project", a private initiative by students of the Stellenbosch Conservatory to teach music in a school in the township Jamestown (Stellenbosch)
- the iKhaya Music Project at the township Kayamandi (Stellenbosch)
- a crèche which will be build in the township Rondomskrit (Swellendam)

Photos of the handing over of the money >


Invitation of the Bavarian government

It was a great honour and pleasure for Cape Classic that the founder and director of the festival, Gabi Zahn, was invited amongst five other guests for a lunch in honour of H.E. the Premier of the Western Cape Province Ms. Helen Zille, hosted by the Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery, State Minister Siegfried Schneider on Tuesday 25 August in Prinz-Carl-Palais, Munich.
There Gabi Zahn had the chance to talk to the Premier of the Western Cape, Ms. Helen Zille, about the cultural and social work of Cape Classic in South Africa.


Helen Zille - Gabi Zahn, August 2009


Ms. Zille was impressed by the engagement of the German Non Profit Company Cape Classic e.V. and promised Gabi Zahn to support Cape Classic in every possible way. She even agreed to come to the hand over of the Cape Classic donation of 2009 in Kayamandi as well as to honour Cape Classic by attending if possible one of Cape Classic’s next year’s concerts.

Flags of South Africa, Germany, Bavaria and the EU
Premier Helen Zille is welcomed by Bavarian Statw Minister Siegfried Schneider
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