What: 🎵 The Gauteng Guitar Quartet, presented by St Francis Music Festival 2025
When:
Where: 🕳 St Francis of Assisi Church
How much:
🎟️ R200.00Quicket
Formed in 2024, the Gauteng Guitar Quartet is South Africa’s only professional performing guitar quartet.
The GGQ’s members are Dillon Davie, Ryan Kirsten, Jonathan Moolman and Nathalie Roué.With their first public performance in July 2024, the GGQ has already impressed its audiences with an eclectic mixture of composers from Antonio Vivaldi to Andrew York, American Grammy Award winning classical guitarist and composer, and Cuban composer and guitarist Leo Brouwer.
The GGQ have further solidified their presence with a performance at the Wakkerstroom Music Festival in March 2025, presenting two evocative works imitating the natural elegance and fluidity of rain.
The Artists:
Dillon Davie is a versatile fretted instrument and music educator based in Johannesburg. He has a Bachelor of Music degree, majoring in classical guitar and contemporary composition from Wits University, where he studied with Reza Khota and Michal George, as well as an Associate of Trinity College London (ATCL).
Jonathan Moolman studied at the University of Pretoria where he completed a Masters degree in guitar performance (2010) with Abri Jordaan. He has also received qualifications in guitar performance (Grd.8 in Guitar with distinction 2006) from Trinity College London and a Teacher’s Licentiate (2007) from the University of South Africa.
Ryan Kirsten studied classical guitar at Pretoria Boys High School under Abri Jordaan from 2007-2011 and studied guitar performance at the University of Pretoria under Abri Jordaan from, finishing his Mmus in 2020. He is an active performer and teacher, whose accomplishments include recording the Vivaldi Guitar Concerto with the Gauteng Philharmonic Orchestra in 2019.
Nathalie Roué matriculated at Pro Arte Alphen Park, she continued her music studies overseas and was accepted at the Conservatoire National de Versailles in France. She was awarded a four year scholarship to study classical guitar under the tuition of Christian Chanel and cello under the tuition of Barbara Marcinkowska. Nathalie focused on classical guitar as a first instrument and specialized in chamber music and orchestra as a cellist. She completed her DMus degree from the University of Pretoria in 2024.