Rameau · Debussy · Fauré

Duration: 80 minutes

Gerhard Joubert is a laureate of many national music competitions, including first prizes in the Pieter Kooij Competition (2018), Atterbury National Piano Competition (2021), and the Johann Vos Open Category (2022). The Laura Searle Prize for Piano Concerto Playing has been awarded to him twice (2021 and 2023). In 2021 he received the first prize at the National Youth Music Competition after performing Liszt’s first piano concerto with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) under the baton of Brandon Phillips in the final round. In 2023, Gerhard received the first prize and a special award for the best performance of a classical sonata at the 7th Unisa National Piano Competition. He also recorded the Schumann Piano Concerto with Bernhard Gueller and the CPO in 2021. The prestigious Human Naudé Music Scholarship was awarded to him in 2023.

Gerhard frequently collaborates with singers and instrumentalists, receiving top prizes with singer Janice van Rooy at the Neues Lied Competition (2022) and performing Brahms’ Piano Quintet at the Schock Foundation Prize for Chamber Music (2024). Recent performances include Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto at the Maynardville Open-Air Festival (2025), Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with Cape Ballet Africa and the CPO, and a full recital of Fauré’s Nocturnes in May 2025 celebrating the composer’s 180th birthday.

In 2024, Gerhard completed his Honours degree under Prof. François du Toit at the South African College of Music, and he will pursue his Masters in Performance at the Basel Hochschule für Musik in Switzerland from September 2025. He has participated in masterclasses with renowned pianists such as Albie van Schalkwyk, Kate Liu, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, and Jan Jiracek von Arnim, among others.