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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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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Chloe is a dynamic presence in South Africa's entertainment industry. She is no stranger to the stage and loves being part of the local show and corporate scene.
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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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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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Keitumetse 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.
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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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Musical theatre specialist, singer and songwriter, Maya Spector’s artistic roots are derived from the wonderful worlds of jazz and soul. Her career includes solo performances at the esteemed Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and powerful performances in classic musicals such as ‘Langarm’, ‘Rent!’, ‘The Silence of the Music’, ‘The Man of La Mancha’, ‘Jimbo’ and ‘My Fair Lady’.
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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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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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Sibongile 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.
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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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Thulile Zama Holds a BA (Music) and recently completed her honours in Culture, Communication and Media at UKZN. She is well known in the jazz circuit and a well-loved vocalist in Durban, and has performed Hamburg, and Berlin in Germany and New Orleans, USA. She is the lead vocalist of award winning all female contemporary jazz band Heels Over Head.
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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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