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.
Bavaria meets Western Cape Expo
As part of the Fifa World Cup activities Bavaria celebrated fifteen years of partnership between Bavaria and the Western Cape. At an expo from 9 to 18 June 2010 this partnership was showcased at the Cape Town International Centre / Artscape Theatre.
Cape Classic had its own stand at the expo.
Additionally, Cape Classic organized four groups of children, who are supported by Cape Classic. They will be brought from Kayamandi (The Greater Stellenbosch Development Trust) and Jamestown (Weber Gedenk Primary School) to the expo.
Appearing in the Bavarian tent, those township kids got a chance to show their talents and to prove what they have learnt in public.
A highlight was the choir of twenty kids from Jamestown.
Singing the Bavarian anthem the choir proved that Western Cape meets Bavaria too.
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| Cape Classic patrons Siegfried Schneider (Bavarian state minister) and Helen Zille (Western Cape Premier) and Cape Classic director Gabi Zahn, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the partnership between Bevaria and the Western Cape. More photos  |
Article about Cape Classic at "Kap Express" (German)
Video of the inauguration of the Expo (German)
Cape Classic 2010
The Cape Classic Festival was held from 24 February to 6 March 2010.
Information about the programme
Pictures of Cape Classic 2010
We hope we'll meet you at our 2011 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 25 August 2009 in the Prinz-Carl-Palais, Munich.
There Gabi Zahn had the chance to talk to Ms. Helen Zille about the cultural and social work of Cape Classic in South Africa.
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Premier Helen 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. |
