Sharon de Kock has been a violinist with the Odeion String Quartet and violin lecturer at the University of the Free State since 2008. She left South Africa to study in the USA at the age of 17 and graduated from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. In 2021, Sharon earned a DMus degree from North-West University in Potchefstroom.

Sharon was also a first violinist in the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica. From 2004 to 2006, she was a violin lecturer in Puebla, Mexico. She performed as a soloist and orchestral musician across the Americas and Europe.

As an advocate for music education for underprivileged children, she started a community project called “Violins for Peace” in 2022. She also runs a growing outreach project that provides Christmas music to retirement homes and distributes gifts every December with fellow musicians.

Her biggest dream became reality in 2024, when she began performing music composed in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Her mission is to perform as many of these pieces as possible and to honour every composer she can find, in order to give a voice to the victims and survivors. A major highlight of 2024 was her performance at the international conference “Still Searching for Memory and Justice” at the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre.

The concert program will include works by e.g. Sandor Kuti, Marius Flothuis, Victoria Bond, Ilse Weber, Leo Geyer, and more.

Free admission.