Keorapetse Kolwane
Tshwane University of Technology and University of Kwa-Zulu Natal graduate, Keorapetse Kolwane recently completed her postgraduate study at Wits University. Keorapetse’s passion for South African music, live performance, music education and the music business, along with the skills acquired in her academic career, have driven her toward finding ways to facilitate social cohesion through arts, culture and heritage. Having specialised in music performance, composition, arranging, technology and music business, she is employed across the country as a music educator/lecturer, sound engineer, arts administrator, performing artist, songwriter, composer and arranger.
Keorapetse plays an active role in the current South African music scene and transitions smoothly between various genres of music, performing arts and administration professions, music production and notation software and has great interest in further exploring all the other aspects of music technology. Keorapetse was selected Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band of 2015 at the annual Grahamstown National Youth Jazz Festival, performing at major national festivals like the Grahamstown National Arts Festival and Johannesburg Joy of Jazz. She won the SAMRO international singers competition in 2019. In the same year, with the support of Concerts SA and The Old Town School of Folk Music in the USA, Keorapetse collaborated with US-based saxophonist and music educator Ernest Dawkings to facilitate The Englewood Soweto Exchange Project. This project brings together artists from the US and South Africa in a cultural exchange programme using jazz composition, performance and music education to address social issues common to both countries. She has performed internationally in Egypt, New York City, Washington D.C, Louisville, Orlando, Western Kentucky, Norway and prior COVID19 restriction, was scheduled to tour Europe to perform at the Amersfoort Jazz Festival and Babelsound Jazz Festival.
She is currently enrolled as a part time PGCE student at The Tshwane University of Technology, specialising in arts education and linguistics. Keorapetse is also employed as a part time lecturer in the music department at Wits University, Johannesburg.
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