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Setting goals for 2022
The beginning of the year is a good time to review your goals — whether professional or personal — and to decide what you want to achieve this year. A few of our lecturers agreed to share their goals for 2022: Mr André Oosthuizen (left) has two very simple goals...
read moreBassoon study at NWU School of Music
NWU School of Music has a long tradition of bassoon study and performance. This tradition started with Prof Fanie Jooste, who studied bassoon in Detmold, Germany, with Prof Helman Jung. Prof Jooste passed this tradition on to his students. One of his former students,...
read moreProf Tinus Botha in Serbia — June/July 2019
[ As president of the South African chapter of the World Piano Teachers Association, Prof Tinus Botha attended and performed at the 11th World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia. He tells us about his visit. ] Between 27 June and 3 July 2019 pianists from all over...
read moreProf Tinus Botha in Japan — November 2018
[ Prof Tinus Botha was one of five South Africans that had been invited by Yamaha on a tour of their instrument factories in Japan. He tells us about his visit. ] I was privileged to be a member of a small South African delegation that toured Japan in November in...
read moreMs Janelize van der Merwe in Azerbaijan — July 2018
[ Ms Janelize van der Merwe attended the 33rd World Conference of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) in Baku, Azerbaijan during July. She tells us about the conference. ] A colleague recently asked me what the collective noun for music educators is....
read moreProf Tinus Botha in Serbia — June/July 2018
[ As president of the South African chapter of the World Piano Teachers Association, Prof Tinus Botha travelled to Novi Sad, Serbia during the winter recess to attend and perform at the 10th World Piano Conference. He tells us about his visit. ] I was fortunate to...
read moreProf Tinus Botha in Upstate New York & United Kingdom — November 2017
[ During November 2017, Prof Tinus Botha travelled to the USA and United Kingdom for a number of solo piano recitals. He tells us about, and shows us, his experiences during this concert tour. ] Pulaski, NY My first stop was at Pulaski, NY for a recital at the...
read moreDr Santisa Viljoen in Sweden, the Netherlands & Germany — November/December 2017
[ Dr Santisa Viljoen spent the largest part of November and early December 2017 in Europe for academic and research visits. She agreed to tell us about her experiences. ] Royal College of Music, Stockholm The three weeks spent at the Royal College of Music in...
read moreProf Liesl van der Merwe in England & Wales — December 2017
Prof Liesl van der Merwe visited Manchester, London, and Bangor (in Wales) in December last year for several professional engagements. Royal Northern College of Music — Manchester She spent three days at the Royal Northern College of Music where she: presented her...
read moreThe 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...
read moreMeeting 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,...
read moreRecording 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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