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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.
Read MoreCara 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.
Read MoreCarla Ferreira is a clarinettist with a passion for promoting contemporary clarinet repertoire. She is an active freelancer, educator and a passionate arts activist.
Read MoreClaire 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.
Read MoreClare 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.
Read MoreDaisy “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)
Read MoreEmma Luyendijk is a Cape Town-born pianist based in Boston, USA. Emma’s commitment to Collaborative Piano is driven by a passion for the dialogical potential in chamber music and vocal arts.
Read MoreBorn in 1976 in Kagiso, Johannesburg, and raised in Qumbu in the Eastern Cape, Ghetto Queen is a musician, writer, vocalist, teacher and Nal'ibali Funder Leader.
Read MoreKeitumetse Joyce Moholoagae is a South African vocalist and educator. She has performed in venues across South Africa, and from the Royal Festival Hall to the Globe Theatre in London. She is based in Johannesburg where she works as a singer, choir director and educator.
Read MoreWinner 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.
Read MoreMaretha 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.
Read MoreMeryl 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.
Read MoreBorn in Pretoria, Nina Fourie-Gouws maintains an active concert schedule throughout Southern Africa. Since 2013 she has been guitar lecturer at Stellenbosch Konservatorium where she teaches pre-undergraduate, undergraduate and postgraduate practical music studies as well as accompaniment, repertoire studies and teaching methodology.
Read MoreSibongile Buda known as Ms Buda Bass is a Mamelodi born, South African Performing Artist. She is a bassist, Composer, Music Teacher, Band conductor, Founder and Programme Director.
Read MoreThembelihle Dunjana is a gigging musician from Cape Town. Thembelihle is a pianist, composer, singer, teacher and mentor who graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of music majoring in Jazz performance.
Read MoreThobekile Mbanda affectionately known as Ntomb’Yelanga is a conceptual artist, community activist and uses music as her medium and muse.
Read MoreUlagh Williams is a jazz vocalist, director, conductor, producer and musicologist on jazz and gender. Whilst teaching music at schools across South Africa, she directed choirs, ensembles, big bands and theatre productions. She lectured in jazz and contemporary vocals at Nelson Mandela University (2014-2018) and also at Rhodes University (2017-present) where she is currently studying towards a PhD.
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