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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.
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 MoreKirsty 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.
Read MoreLynn Rudolph, M.Mus. performance student at Nelson Mandela University under the tutelage of David Bester, is a resident violist in South Africa. She is an activist and philanthropist seeking to address systemic issues within the South African classical music industry. She performs regularly in ensembles and orchestras, and been the recipient of numerous bursaries and awards.
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 MoreMusical 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’.
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 MoreMikhaila 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.
Read MoreSouth 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.
Read MoreMillicent Ngwalangwala is a Reggae, R&B and Afropop singer who twice won an award for R&B upcoming artist in 2018 and 2019. She is a poet, singer and is currently writing a play.
Read MoreNatali 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.
Read MoreNicky 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.
Read MoreNicola 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.
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 MoreThandeka Louisa Mfinyongo was born and raised in Nyanga East, Cape Town. She holds aPerformer’s Diploma in Music and an Advanced Diploma in African Music, both from the University of Cape Town. She specialises in two Xhosa instruments, uhadi (gourd/calabash bow) and umrhubhe (mouth-bow) and is currently doing her Master’s in Music Performance at SOAS University of London, specialising in kora instrument.
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 MoreThulile 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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