Gumboots! features and builds around British composer David Bruce's Gumboots, a rhythmically driven work inspired by South African gumboot dance traditions. The programme also includes two masterworks of the clarinet chamber repertoire - Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 by Johannes Brahms, a late-Romantic work, and Clarinet Quintet in B-flat major, Op. 34 by Carl Maria von Weber, a virtuosic work with ties to his operatic writing.
The evening features Stellenbosch University lecturers Dr Suzanne Martens and Dr Annien Shaw (violins), Petrus Coetzee (viola), and Dr Peter Martens (cello), alongside Stellenbosch University alumn Nathan Huysamen (clarinet).