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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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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Emma 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.
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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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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 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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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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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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Thembelihle 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.
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Ulagh 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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