The Cape Classic Festival takes place every year in an area of unique beauty,  wonderful landscapes, breath-taking views and endless vineyards.
This idyll unites nature and man.  Additionally, the intimate nature of the unique chamber music festival, with its international artists, guarantees every evening that the audience may indulge themselves in music, lost in their own thoughts, happy and content with the world.
The love of classical music and enthusiasm for South Africa were Gabi Zahn’s motivation to found, ten years ago, an annual chamber music festival in the winelands of the Western Cape. The bases of these festivals are compositions of the baroque, classical and romantic eras, often including rarities by unknown and forgotten composers of the same periods.
Cape Classic, you will not offer mundane programmes!
Famous instrumentalists who have performed for Cape Classic are Daniel Müller-Schott (violoncello) and Igor Levit (piano), to name just two of the approximately ninety musicians who  have come to South Africa.
Jochen Kupfer (baritone), Tobias Bernd (baritone), Franziska Gottwald (alto) and Katja Stuber (soprano),  amongst others, also performed at the festival. All artists declined a performance fee and volunteered to work for Cape Classic without remuneration.
Only in this way were they able to generate a surplus of the ticket sales in order to assist selected social projects which support township children.
Since 2005 the Non-Profit Organisation Cape Classic e.V. has donated more than €70000 to various projects for underprivileged children.
Cape Classic has paid school fees for orphans, English lessons for Afrikaans speaking children and study fees for highly talented students. Cape Classic also bought school uniforms for the poorest.
In addition Cape Classic, consciously and with enjoyment, practises an active cultural exchange by building human and cultural bridges through their master classes with students from South Africa and through our school concerts with the pupils of Khayamandi, a township in Stellenbosch.
The festival of 2015 starts on 11 February at the residence of the German Ambassador in Bishopscourt and ends on 21 February with a matinée in Casa Labia, where Italian charm encounters the turquoise seaside.
In such picturesque surroundings, our audiences get together with our excellent and internationally renowned artists against a backdrop of beautiful vineyards  with their welcoming Cape Dutch homesteads, historical wine estates and impressive manor houses,-  forgetting the usual hype of an international festival!
Without a doubt, our concerts at Morgenster, Babylonstoren and in the residences of both, the German and the Italian Ambassadors are THE highlights of every festival season!
Hospitality, surroundings, excellent food and wines blend together to create a fantastic, unforgettable atmosphere, comparable with a well composed symphony!
For more information visit www.cape-classic.com