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Amanda Lawrence

Amanda is a South African flautist who graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with a degree in Chamber Music in 2019. She has participated in several renowned festivals, such as the SICMF, the Raffaele Trevisani Summer Flute School (Italy), the Galway Flute Festival (Switzerland), the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (Germany) and at the Dublin National Concert Hall as part of Sir James Galway’s 80th birthday celebration.

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Andrea Hobson

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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Avril Kinsey

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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Bongile Lecoge-Zulu

Bongile Lecoge-Zulu works across the disciplines of music and theatre education, facilitation, performance, writing and curating. She is involved in experimental collaborative interdisciplinary endeavours where she investigates possibilities of merging music with other art forms. Hence, much of her work follows a multidisciplinary trajectory where she plays diverse artistic roles.

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Cara Stacey

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

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

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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Daisy Mangwato

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 Farquharson

Emma is a freelance Opera & classical performer, focusing on performing women composers. and runs a private vocal coaching studio. After graduating with Distinctions in Music and BA Honours. she will now be pursuing a Masters of Education, specialising in the teaching of WAM Female Composers at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 2020/21.

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Fiona Tozer

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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Jill Richards

Jill Richards is a South African pianist specialising in late 20th and 21st century music. Versatile and dynamic, her interests range from Bach to free improvisation. She works as a soloist and chamber musician, collaborates with visual artists, dancers and actors, and travels regularly to Europe to work as a live improviser in concerts and festivals.

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Kate de Gruchy

Kate de Gruchy graduated with a B.Mus. from the University of Cape Town in 2019 where she specialised in composition, music technology and piano. She is a classical pianist by training, although her own music tends towards contemporary and jazz styles.

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Keorapetse Kolwane

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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