Staff and students @ Aardklop 2025
Productions featuring several staff members and students of the School of Music have been included in the programme for this year's Momentum Aardklop Arts Festival during the week of 7–12 October in Potchefstroom. Potchpourri Tue 7 Oct • 13:00 NG Church Vyfhoek...
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Prof Janelize Morelli appointed as first director of the Centre for Digital Humanities
The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) is a newly created entity within the NWU Faculty of Humanities. According to the dean of the faculty, Prof Dumi Moyo, "this Centre will play a pivotal role in advancing research and innovation at the intersection of our various...
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Knowing Me, Knowing You — Ms Thembinkosi Magagula
As an alumna and the youngest academic staff member at the School of Music, Ms Thembinkosi Magagula is in the awkward position where her former lecturers are now her colleagues. She is still getting used to calling them by their first names! Before her appointment,...
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Dr Jaco Meyer to Australia for two conferences
Dr Jaco Meyer travelled to Australia at the beginning of July to attend two conferences. The first was the World Congress on Positive Psychology of the International Positive Psychology Association in Brisbane where he made a poster presentation on "Interventions to...
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Knowing Me, Knowing You — Dr Antoinette Olivier
After 13 years of teaching at NWU School of Music, Dr Antoinette Olivier will retire at the end of 2025. She considers this appropriate since 13 is her lucky number! Thinking back on her time at the Conservatory, she says it was a huge challenge for her to find her...
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NWU-KMH academic exchange programme continues
Reported by Ms Rineke Viljoen, liaison for the NWU-KMH exchange programme The NWU School of Music is proud to continue its longstanding academic exchange partnership with the Royal College of Music (KMH) in Stockholm, Sweden. Running since 2007, this international...
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Knowing Me, Knowing You — Mr Thomas Erlank
Mr Thomas Erlank is less than nine months into his tenure as programme manager (for the BA Music & Society and Honours BA Music programmes). In this capacity, he enjoys the opportunity to have a deeper engagement with students that goes beyond teaching: advising and...
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MASARA delivers consistent outputs for 2024
The research director's report on MASARA's research output for 2024 shows consistent contributions from almost all of the entity's participants. MASARA's total research output units for last year are 38.046. Although this is not our highest number in the entity’s...
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Postgraduate Graduations — 3 & 4 June 2025
Luzanne Eigelaar PhD in Visual and Performing Arts with Music Teaching and learning in first-year BMus music theory courses: the experiences of lecturers in South Africa Promoter: Prof Mignon van Vreden Co-promoter: Dr Catrien Wentink In her thesis, Luzanne explored...
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Knowing Me, Knowing You — Prof Chris van Rhyn
The Research Director of MASARA, Prof Chris van Rhyn, successfully spearheaded its upgrade from a research niche to a focus area during his first term. Agreeing to serve a second term, the challenge ahead is to ensure a smooth academic, operational and administrative...
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Residency Reflections
by Ms Thandeka Mfinyongo From December 2024 to March 2025, I participated in a four-month residency at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. My residency formed part of a broader artistic-research project titled Ingoduko, a...
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From the heart of the organist: practical guidelines for improvisation during worship services
This article by Ms Rineke Viljoen on improvisation for church organists was published in the December 2024 issue of To the Director of Music, the journal of the Southern African Church and Concert Organists Society. The article explores organ improvisation as a...
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