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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...

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Bassoon 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,...

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Prof 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...

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Prof 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...

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Ms 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....

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Prof 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...

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Prof 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...

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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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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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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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