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Joshua Frank

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Joshua Frank completed a master’s degree in musicology through the Stellenbosch University Music Department in 2019, and took up a part-time lecturing post at the same institution the following year. His principal research interest is the empirical study of musical emotions, with occasional forays into the evolutionary origins of music and aspects of Baroque performance practice.

Joshua’s undergraduate studies were focused on performance, and he maintains an active profile playing the guitar, recorder, and oboe. He performs in various settings, with emphasis on orchestral playing and Baroque chamber music. Outside of the context of strict Western Art Music, he explores the possibilities of the folk-classical idiom as a member of the ensemble Here Be Dragons.

Winand Grundling

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Winand Grundling completed his schooling at Brandwag High School in Uitenhage and obtained a BMus degree from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. He began his organ studies under Colin Campbell in 2002 and has since given organ recitals on national and international level. In 2006, Winand was chosen as one of seventeen organists worldwide to attend the Canadian International Organ Summer School in Calgary. He passed his ATCL Trinity Recital (Licentiate) examinations, as well as his Unisa Performance Licentiate with distinction. In 2012, he received the degree BMus Hons (cum laude) from Stellenbosch University with the guidance of Mario Nell. In 2012, Winand attended master classes presented by Professor Yin Kim (University of Seoul), as well as Professors Ton Koopman, Jean-Claude Zhender, Louis Bolliviard and Peter Planyavski at the International Haarlem Organ Summer School in the Netherlands, and Professor David Higgs at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, USA. In 2014 and 2015, he attended the International Bach Academy in Amsterdam (Waalse Church) hosted by Jaques van Oortmerssen. On national level, Winand has won the following competitions and prizes: Overall winner of the ABSA National Youth Music Competition, Organ category winner at the ATKV Muziq Competition, the Charles Bryars Bursary, the SAMRO Merit Award, the Mabel Quick Music Bursary, as well as overall winner of the Unisa Overseas Music Bursary Competition, the ATKV Muziq Competition, and the SAKOV Overseas Music Bursary Competition. At the 2012 Klein-Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK), Winand received two Kanna Awards for his production, 14 Stasies van die Kruis – for Best Classical Music Production and Best Upcoming Artist. Winand is the organist of the Dutch Reformed Church Stellenbosch-Welgelegen and is an accompanist for various choirs and South African artists. Winand teaches music full-time at Parel-Vallei High School in Somerset West.

Willemien Froneman

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Willemien Froneman is an extraordinary associate professor at AOI. She writes about white musical aesthetics in South Africa, mainly through the lens of boeremusiek—a marginal and much-stigmatized genre of South African folk music. She coedits the journal SAMUS: South African Music Studies.

Leonore Bredekamp

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Leonore Bredekamp completed BAMus at the Stellenbosch University and holds an MPhil in Modern Foreign Languages (Technology Enhanced Language Instruction). She has been involved in ethnomusicological research as multi-media specialist and lectures music technology on first year level in the BMus programme. She is actively involved in theatre productions and ensembles as electric – and acoustic bassist.

Annamarie Bam

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Annamarie Bam graduated with the degrees B.Mus and B.Mus(Hons) from the University of the Free State, South Africa, having taken lessons with Harold Strebel in Cape Town and Heinrich Armer in Bloemfontein. She was the overall winner of the ATKV Forte competition and won the overseas scholarship for Performer’s Licentiate from the Royal Schools of Music. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy in London under John Davies, Richard Addison and Antony Pay and also attended master with Karl Leister in London and Guy Deplus in Nice. Her orchestral experience began at an early age in Bloemfontein where she joined various wind bands and also the PACOFS Orchestra as an ad hoc member. She was principal clarinet of the S.A. National Youth Orchestra for four consecutive years. When she returned from London, she joined the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra as sub-principal clarinet and was later promoted to co-principal. In 1992 she took up a full-time teaching position at the Musicon in Bloemfontein and rejoined PACOFS. As an experienced chamber musician, Annamarie has played with ‘Taffanel Trio’, the ‘Poulenc Players’ sextet, in a duo with Elna van der Merwe, and in a trio with Elna and Sabina Mossolow, on recent appearances at the Woordfees (2016, 2018), and in Sasolburg with ‘Trio Classique’, an ensemble with Benjamin van Eeden (piano) and Karen Gaertner (viola).

Annamarie teaches privately at home and at the Johnman Centre in Stellenbosch and began a recorder school (the ‘Little Crickets’) for young children in 2005. She teaches a course in clarinet repertoire and teaching methods as a part-time lecturer at the Stellenbosch University Music Conservatorium. She lives in Somerset West with her husband and two daughters. Annamarie joined the Stellenbosch City Orchestra in 2015 as clarinet player. The orchestra gave its first performances at Oude Libertas (Stellenbosch), at Lourensford (Somerset West) and, recently, in the open air concert hall Congratia, near Oudtshoorn.

Daniel Prozesky

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Daniel Prozesky obtained a Professional Diploma in Performance in 2010 from L’Institut de Ribaupierre and a BMus in 2011 (dux, cum laude) from the Lausanne Conservatory in Switzerland under renowned Swiss clarinettist Frédéric Rapin. He has performed with all of the major orchestras in South Africa and has been principal clarinet of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra since 2015. He is also an ardent chamber musician and performs throughout South Africa. Since 2015 he has tutored and performed at the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival. Daniel is a qualified Mechanical Engineer and freelances as a designer in Cape Town.

Glyn Partridge

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Glyn Partridge studied bassoon at the Royal College of Music under Kerrison Camden. After many years of playing in various professional orchestras, he is now a freelance player and teacher in the Cape Town area.

Liesl Stoltz

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Liesl Stoltz studied at the University of Stellenbosch after which she studied in France and Italy where she obtained diplomas with distinction. She numbers among her teachers Éva Tamássy, Shigenori Kudo, Pierre-Yves Artaud and Peter-Lukas Graf and has won numerous prizes in national and international competitions in Romania and Germany.

She has appeared as soloist with the Cape Town, Eastern Cape, Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestras, the Free State Symphony and with the UCT String Ensemble, Camerata Tinta Barocca and Odeion Simfonia. In June 2010 she obtained the degree D.Mus from UCT. She continued with post-doctoral studies at the same institution and did several recordings and performances featuring South African flute music. In 2017 her CD “Explorations – South African Flute music” was proclaimed the winner in the category “Best Musical Composition” in the annual Humanities and Social Sciences Awards of the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. At present she performs extensively as soloist and chamber musician and teaches at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. She plays a 14k Yamaha flute and was named a Yamaha South Africa Artist in 2018.

Carina Venter

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Dr Carina Venter

Lecturer, Musicology

Chair, South African Society for Research in Music

I hold a doctorate from the University of Oxford, master’s degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Stellenbosch, and a BMus from the University of Pretoria. My research interests centre on music, violence, decolonial thought, and discourses of apartheid and colonialism. I have published locally and internationally, and am motivated to think, write, and teach at the intersections of music, politics, and those questions that continue to render our present precarious and unequal. I have supervised students on a wide range of topics, including decolonisation of the tertiary music curriculum, trauma and violence in music, music and gender, and several South African composers. My current cohort of postgraduates work on topics including the music of Philip Miller, musical theatre in the 1970s in South Africa, video-game music and psychoanalysis, curricular decolonisation, Afrikaans cabaret, and emancipative pedagogies. I am committed to teaching, research, and supervision, activities which I believe should be emancipative and continuously challenging of our thinking, music-making, and listening practices. My latest publications can be read here,  here, and here.

Alumni news

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Two Maties Alumni, Lucinda Watts and Roché van Tiddens are engaged. The couple met each other while studying at the Conservatorium in 2011. Lucinda specialized in Music Education and among other ventures, taught music lessons as part of the community music project Jamestown Sounds. Roché studied Music Composition under the tutelage of Hans Roosenschoon. During this time Lucinda was employed as a music teacher at Bastion Primary School. After completing his master’s degree in 2016, the couple spent a year in the UK. Here Roché continued his studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where he obtained a Post-Graduate diploma in composition. Thereafter the couple moved to the Hague, Netherlands where Lucinda studied a master’s degree in music education at the ‘Royal Conservatory’ and Roché studied the one-year course in Sonology.

For Lucinda’s research, the couple started a project called Crab Music (krabmuziek.wordpress.com), which is aimed at bringing music composition, with the use of hands on electronic sound generators, to young learners in the form of a workshop. A fusion of both of the couple’s individual interests, electronic music composition and music education. During the workshop participants build their own electronic instruments with simple objects such as batteries, speakers and contact microphones. After the participants discover a new sound world, their ideas are developed into a musical composition which is then performed as a small concert for their parents at the end of the workshop. After the pilot workshop with a total of 8 participants the project grew and developed. In 2019 Crab Music was invited to take part in the annual music festival, ‘Rewire’ (https://www.rewirefestival.nl/artist/creative-sound-lab). Apart from hosting Crab Music workshops Lucinda has a private piano studio and teaches violin at the British School in the Netherlands.

Roché is currently working on a new composition called Dumelang for choir and with live electronics. The piece was commissioned by the ‘Haags Toonkunstkoor’, a choir that has been around for nearly 200 years, which he is also a member of. The text of the piece comprises of greetings in the 11 official South African languages and the music includes recordings of wildlife made on a game reserve in the Limpopo Province. The meaning of the text is a celebration of diversity in South Africa and would have been performed as part of the ‘75ste jaar bevrijdingsdag  feest’ on the 5th of May 2020. Visit Roché’s website to listen to of his works (rochevantiddens.wordpress.com).

The happy couple are planning to get married in Western Cape in 2021.

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