Upcoming Concerts
FROM KARL JENKINS TO CHRISTMAS JOY (2025)
Date: 15 – 16 November, 2025 @ 15:00
Venue: Endler Hall, Stellenbosch
First a performance will be given of the Stabat Mater (depicting Mary’s sorrow at the Cross) by the renowned contemporary Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, in which Minette du Toit-Pearce will be the contralto soloist. In this work consisting of 12 parts , the standard liturgical text in Latin is interspersed with choral singing in languages from a variety of cultural origins, often focusing on the Middle East, and with accompaniment enhanced by ethnic instruments.
After the interval, the first performance will be given of Christmas Joy, a collection of old favourite and less familiar carols, arranged for choir and orchestra by Zorada Temmingh. Carols from different cultures are sung in their original languages, with contrasting themes-of snow and sun, singing and silence, crib and Child, peace and joy.
Made possible by Fairtree.
NEWS
KKNK 2019
Die Libertaskoor vier hul 30ste bestaansjaar in 2019. Op 23 en 24 Maart het hul optredes gehad by KKNK. Die program het klassieke en kontemporêre werke ingesluit, asook bekende treffers.
WOORDFEES NOMINASIE 2020
Die Libertas Koor is genomineer vir Beste prestasie: Klassieke musiek – vokaal in Brahms se Requiem onder leiding van Johan de Villiers.
WOORDFEES NOMINATION
We’ve been nominated! Congratulations Libertas Choir (Johan de Villiers) and Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha for the nomination for Woordtrofee (Woordfees 2019). BRAVO to each and everyone who played a role in the success of this production. Well done!
OUR HISTORY
The Libertas Choir was established in April 1989 under the auspices of the Women for South Africa movement. Since 1989, Johan de Villiers has been the conductor and together with his wife, Louwina, as the manager of the choir, the Libertas Choir have performed on world-renowned stages.
OUR CONDUCTOR
Johan de Villiers is an Extraordinary Professor of Mathematics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and has authored two textbooks in Mathematics. His excellence as entrepreneurial choral conductor has earned him wide recognition in South Africa and abroad.
