Spring Ensemble Concert — 20 September 2016
The annual ensemble concert at the NWU School of Music has been a regular fixture on the concert calendar for five years. This year's performances have been divided between two concerts — the Autumn Ensemble Concert took place in May, and the Spring Ensemble Concert...
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The Three Stooges recording session
by Anri Stenden Prof Piet Koornhof can certainly flaunt the acclaimed CD recordings to his name. Not only have his performances evoked impressive praise from The New York Times, Feuille d’Avis of Neuchatel (Switzerland), The Cape Times, and the Natal Daily News...
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The Marriage of Figaro — 11-18 September 2016
From 11-18 September 2016, Mozart’s popular opera, The Marriage of Figaro, will be performed on the NWU Potchefstroom Campus, in Ikageng, as well as in Klerksdorp. The production is presented by die NWU School of Music and the NWU Choir Academy®, in collaboration with...
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Meeting a Stradivari descendant
by Anri Stenden Prof Piet Koornhof has to be one of the luckiest violinists alive. It’s not often that you get to meet a real member of the Stradivari family on a visit to Cremona, and by chance too! During his trip to Italy in June 2013, he visited his close friend,...
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Knowing Me, Knowing You — Dr Peter Okeno [alumnus]
Instrument(s) / Discipline(s): Voice, African drums, Ethnomusicology. Period of study at the NWU School of Music / PU for CHE Department of Music: 2004-2007. Qualifications completed at the NWU / PU for CHE: University Diploma in Music BA Music & Society Honours BA...
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Symphonic Winds & Big Band Jazz — 6 September 2016
On Tuesday 6 September 2016 at 19:30 two very different yet closely related musical idioms will share the stage of the Conservatory Hall: the Wind Ensemble conducted by André Oosthuizen, and the Big Band led by Justin Sasman. Audience members will be treated to the...
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Recording at the Singapore Conservatory
by Anri Stenden Did you know that the Singapore Conservatory, with its impressive all-glass frontage (see photo below), 80 sound-proof (and temperature controlled) practice studios, and a 600-seater concert hall, also boasts one of the largest recording studios in...
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Erik Satie’s Vexations, 25 years later #ThrowbackThursday
In 1991, the then chairperson of the student Music Society at the Conservatory, Mr Jaco van der Merwe, organised a week-long music festival celebrating the work of the eccentric French composer, Erik Satie. The festival culminated in an 18-hour-long performance on the...
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Practising everywhere
by Anri Stenden Prof Piet Koornhof has made numerous trips all across the globe for concerts and recordings, including to Europe, North America, Russia and Singapore. Since travelling takes a lot of time, and airports and train stations never have practice rooms, Prof...
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8 years ago — our joyous mural #ThrowbackThursday
by Prof Jaco Kruger Visitors to the School of Music are welcomed by a colourful mural in the Conservatory’s courtyard. This mural was commissioned in 2008 as part of a broader programme to renovate the interior of the building. During this time the interior walls were...
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MASARA Research Round-Up — 2nd Quarter 2016
We look back on the second quarter and the amazing things we've achieved. [ 1 ] Symposia On 26-28 April 2016 we hosted a three-day postgraduate symposium where: (a) Dr Liesl van der Merwe presented an ATLAS.ti training workshop for staff and students from all three...
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Tangos & jazz arrangements by Potch Trio — 23 August 2016
The celebrated Potch Trio, with violinist Piet Koornhof, pianist Tinus Botha, and cellist Human Coetzee, as well as guest artist Alida Bester (double bass), will perform in the annual Dean’s Concert on Tuesday 23 August 2016 at 19:30 in the Conservatory Hall,...
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