Amanda is one of Cape Town’s best-loved vocalist-pianists, and a respected Musical Director/Arranger, orchestrator and composer. She is Head of Jazz Studies, and runs the Jazz Singing section at the University of Cape Town.
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Port Elizabeth-born Amy Crankshaw is a composer based in London, UK. Her music has been described as ‘highly engaging’, ‘inventive’ and ‘distinctive’. She is studying for her Doctorate of Music in composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Andrea Hobson is a brass performer, music educator and composer. She is based in Jena, Germany, and teaches lower brass, band and theory at the Orchesterschuler KLANGwelt. She is the principal euphonium for Brass Band BlechKLANG, plays trombone and euphonium for the Brass Band BlechKLANG Soloist ensemble and plays tuba for the Show Brass Band VielKLANG.
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Dr Avril Kinsey is a commissioned composer and award winning internationally acclaimed concert guitarist. She received her Masters in Music (cum laude) and in April 2018 she was awarded a Doctor of Music degree in Composition for her portfolio of orchestral and chamber scores.
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Cara Stacey is a South African musician, composer and researcher. She is a pianist and plays southern African musical bows (umrhubhe, uhadi, makhweyane). Cara holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town and SOAS (London). Her doctoral research investigated practice and innovation in the music of the makhweyane musical bow in the Kingdom of eSwatini.
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Chantal Willie-Petersen is one of South Africa’s most accomplished jazz musicians. She has performed all over the world, including at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl in L.A., the Blue Note in Japan and has worked with performers such as Zap Mama, Erykah Badu and Tania Maria. She is currently a lecturer at Wits University
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Claire Röntsch (neè de Kock) is a saxophonist, session musician, composer, arranger and music educator. She graduated with a BMus in Jazz Performance at the South African College of Music (SACM) in 2014 with distinction and is busy completing her Masters degree at SACM with a scholarship in Jazz Composition and Arrangement.
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Clare Loveday is one of South Africa’s most active and internationally acclaimed new music composers. Striving to convey through music the complications of life in an post-colonial society, her works have been described by critics in turn as 'obstinate and fierce, big-boned and raw', 'subtle' and 'elusive'. She is best known for her ‘straight’ saxophone compositions and interdisciplinary collaborations.
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Daisy “Mama Dee” Mangwato (born Daisy Mashianoke Mangwato) in 1986, hails from Sekhukhune, Limpopo Province, currently resides in Pretoria. She is a South African Singer, Guitarist, composer, music teacher and a cofounder and a project manager of Jazz Camp for Female instrumentalists -Mamelodi (JCFI-Mamelodi), an organisation which enhances females from disadvantaged areas with art skills (Music,Drama,Dance,Visual Art and Poetry)
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Emma van Heyn is a South African actor, musician and songwriter. She has released a vast kaleidoscope of musical creations from a 16 track self-produced album, to recent singles and theatre sound design. She has just completed a successful live tour to London and New York City with her new upcoming releases.
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Fiona Tozer has recorded five albums of original music; her latest project with the duo Quark sees her move on from her folk/acoustic-rock roots to the fusion of different genres. She has had works performed by the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet from Sweden and the Schubert Ensemble from London, and has had works commissioned by performers in Lithuania, Britain and the Faroe Islands, as well as by the South African Music Rights Association.
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Winner of the jazz section of the 2019 SAMRO Overseas Scholarship Competition, Keorapetse studied at Tshwane University of Technology, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, and recently completed her postgraduate study at Wits University. 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.
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Kirsty Adams is a South African composer/songwriter, singer, violinist, philanthropist. She released her debut EP The Wings Beneath My Feathers in April 2019 which combines her love for classical, pop and jazz. Kirsty has been accepted to New York University to study a Masters in Music Composition specialising in Songwriting.
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Maretha is a South African musician, music teacher and composer. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, she was educated at the University of Pretoria where she completed a BMus, BMus Hons and MMus. Her fields of specialization are flute and music theory.
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Meryl van Noie is a ‘technologist’, sound designer and pianist. She experiments with ambiguous textures, sound organisation, musical textures, visuals, animations, found sounds, as well as improvisational structures. She has both classical and jazz formal music training and has worked on numerous projects, ranging from classical, jazz, rock and popular music performance, to theatre music and sound design, film scoring, jingle writing, instrument building, and experimental music technology collaborations, whilst always teaching and working as a music industry professional.
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Mikhaila Smith is a Cape Town-born composer, orchestrator and pianist based in New York. Her works, both concert and film, have been performed in Cape Town, Los Angeles and New York.
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South African born composer, Monthati Masebe is bold and vibrant African who embraces fluidity in countless ways. Monthati’s compositional work includes commissioned pieces for Japanese duo X[!]ksa, the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet and art installation pieces for the Wits Arts Museum- a musical interpretation of Norea Mabasa’s ancestral drum and a new music collaborative piece with Kathleen Tagg. In 2019 Monthati completed a 48hour film challenge which focused on the internal and external safety of black queerness in society.
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Natali Frenz’s work has been performed by local and international artists to critical acclaim, including at the University of Stellenbosch Woordfees, Purpur, and the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet. Her creative output is characterised by a divergent approach to style, with some works leaning towards serial influences and others exploring narrative expression in a filmic setting.
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Nicky Schrire is a versatile and inventive vocalist and composer whose work has earned her comparisons to artists like Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, and Esperanza Spalding. She has performed in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, London, Dublin and South Africa.
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Nicola is a product designer and a musician. She plays cello and piano, and is a founding member of the Night Light Collective, Goldfox duo, and the Betwixt Music series. Her current musical interests include found sound, improvisational and experimental composition and performance, and extended cello techniques with electronics.
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