Staff
Post-doctoral fellow wins Ghoema Award
A post-doctoral fellow at the School of Music, Dr Ockie Vermeulen, received a Ghoema Award on Sunday 13 April 2014 for his third instrumental CD, Obsession. It contains music composed, and also inspired, by the late Christa Steyn. The recording has also been nominated...
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Second limelight concert and exhibition at Brooklyn Theatre — 12 April 2014
The School of Music at North-West University will be presenting a second limelight concert at the Brooklyn Theatre in Pretoria on Saturday 12 April 2014 at 11:00. While the first concert in March featured music for singers, flute, bassoon and violin, this concert will...
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Café Riche at sunset, with pots and pans! (Chamber Music Recital) — 15 April 2014
The next concert in the NWU School of Music concert series is a chamber music recital on Tuesday 15 April 2014 at 19:30 in the Conservatory Hall featuring exuberant music by Czech, Russian and South African composers. All the performers are lecturers at the School of...
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Dr Conroy Cupido’s performance in Dallas, Texas
Dr Conroy Cupido visited the USA towards the end of February to perform in the 25th Annual Benefit Concert of the Bruce R. Foote Memorial Scholarship Foundation in Dallas, Texas. Scholarships are awarded to students in the Graduate and Artist Certificate Programmes at...
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Musical journey with cello and organ through Europe and Russia — 25 March 2014
The combination of cello and organ is not often heard in concert, but several composers through the ages brought together the velvety tone of the cello with the majestic sound of the organ. Two veteran staff members of the NWU School of Music, cellist Human Coetzee...
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Bach to Grové for Sunday afternoon piano recital — 16 March 2014
Tinus Botha, senior lecturer in piano at the NWU School of Music, will present a solo piano recital on Sunday 16 March 2014 at 15:30 in the Conservatory Hall. His programme will follow a fairly traditional pattern of Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire,...
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Celebrating the Art Song — 9 March 2014
The singing section at the NWU School of Music will present an afternoon concert on Sunday 9 March 2014 at 15:30 in the Conservatory Hall in which the art song genre will be celebrated. Vocal students will perform songs in English, Afrikaans and German by Ivor...
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NWU School of Music limelight concert and exhibition at Brooklyn Theatre — 1 March 2014
The School of Music at North-West University will be presenting a limelight concert at the Brooklyn Theatre in Pretoria on Saturday 1 March 2014 at 11:00. Staff and students will perform music by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Weber and Richard Strauss for soprano, baritone,...
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Dr Petersen reports on the 42nd ICTM Conference
Dr Petersen also attended the 42nd Conference of the International Council on Traditional Music (ICTM) in Shanghai (with Dr Lumbwe) and provided his own report on the event: With the exception of the 40th World Conference of the ICTM in Durban, there was a record...
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Second award for excellent creative outputs to Prof Piet Koornhof
Prof Piet Koornhof, associate professor of violin at the School of Music, recently received his second award for excellence in creative outputs (a so-called ITUKU). It is equivalent to the awards for excellence in teaching and research that are also presented annually...
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Music & Engineering collaborate to produce music instruments
Lecturers from the School of Music and the Faculty of Engineering collaborated on a project this year to develop music instruments from scrap materials. The project culminated in a performance by the North-West Youth Orchestra at Engineering’s project day where the...
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Third book on Venda oral musical arts published
Prof Jaco Kruger of the School of Music recently published his third book on Venda culture. The girls in the baobab was produced under the auspices of the MASARA research niche area (Musical Arts in South Africa: Resources & Applications). The collection is the third...
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