Master Teacher in NATS Intern Programme
Reported by Prof Conroy Cupido Last month, I had the privilege of travelling to South Carolina, USA, where I was invited to serve as a Master Teacher in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Intern Programme. The programme brings together experienced...
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Celebrating diverse voices with children
Reported by Prof Mignon van Vreden On Friday 22 May, the second-year BMus Music Education students staged the annual toddler production, The Lost Melody / Die Verlore Wysie. Both performances were fully booked and thoroughly enjoyed by preschoolers, teachers, and...
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Half a dozen MMus graduates
Six MMus students graduated at the NWU graduation ceremony on Wednesday 3 June: Tamaryn Abott (cum laude) [above, left] — "Exploring how musicking shapes the faith journeys of selected contemporary worship musicians: A narrative inquiry." Supervisor: Prof Mignon van...
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Doctorates galore!
It was a rare and special occasion on Friday 5 June when five staff members of the School of Music received their doctoral degrees at the same graduation ceremony. Dr Thomas Erlank, DMus — "Exploring how purposefully selected emotion regulation strategies could...
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Beyond the Lab Bench
In the May issue of H-Factor, the newsletter of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof Janelize Morelli and Dr Yvonne-Marié Brand contributed an article titled "Beyond the lab bench: The case for sustainable industry partnerships in the Humanities". It is based on their...
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Another successful concert tour to Costa Rica & Colombia
Following their first visit to Costa Rica and Colombia last year, Prof Tinus Botha and Mr Thomas Erlank returned for a second visit in April, combining performance, teaching, and academic engagement. During this visit, they collaborated with leading institutions,...
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Piano students frolicked in Stellenbosch
Reported by Sergio Tavares Jenna Bisschoff [above, second from right], Caylin Cloete [above, left], Haileigh Havenga [above, right], and myself [above, middle] (with Prof Tinus Botha, second from left) had the privilege to attend the Stellenbosch International Piano...
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Eastern and Southern Cape concert tour by violin and piano duo
Prof Piet Koornhof (violin) and Ms Jana Mathee (piano) have successfully completed a concert tour in the Eastern and Southern Cape from 12–15 April. They performed a duo-recital programme, titled Fantasia, with works by living Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, French...
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Birthday buddies
The Birthday Paradox is a well-known problem in probability theory that asks: How large does a group of random people need to be in order for two of them to share the same birthday? The problem is considered a paradox because the answer is counterintuitively and...
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Accolades for multimedia collaborations
Over the past year or so, Dr Jaco Meyer participated in two multidisciplinary art projects that were featured in galleries and at arts festivals across the country. Corpus Naturæ is a video installation in collaboration with visual artists Jaco van Schalkwyk and...
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Green Songs as music education for sustainable development in an early childhood setting
This study by Prof Mignon van Vreden, published in March in Perspectives in Education, addresses the need to integrate education for sustainable development (ESD) into music teacher education using the Green Songs Project, an undergraduate service-learning project in...
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From youth song collections and trial song collections to the songbook of the church: A historical overview of the development of church hymns
In this article, published in Vir die Musiekleier / To the Director of Music in December 2025, Dr Jaco Meyer traces the development of the Liedboek van die Kerk (Songbook of the Church) from the resolution at the General Synod of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Church...
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