To celebrate the 20th Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival, past participants from the last two decades have come together to form the SICMF Alumni Orchestra, a large symphony orchestra comprising some of South Africa’s finest professional orchestral musicians. The orchestra, under the baton of the young internationally lauded conductor, Jacobus de Jager, will perform Mahler’s iconic fifth symphony, a new work by much-loved Cape Town based composer, Matthijs van Dijk, and Gershwin’s piano concerto in F, with the New York based young South African pianist, Leo Gevisser.