Babette Roosenschoon (DMus | LLB) is a cellist who enjoys a career as performer, teacher and lecturer. Her cello has taken her travelling across Europe, Southern Africa and to the USA, where she has performed, toured, studied and taught.
Babette holds a DMus from University of North West and an MMus in performance from Stellenbosch University, under the tuition and mentorship of Dalena Roux. After the completion of BMus at Stellenbosch University, Babette furthered her studies abroad at Universität Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria) with the esteemed Heidi Litschauer, and at the University of North Texas (Denton, Texas) with the late Eugene Osadchy and Baroque cello with Allen Whear.
Having won a tutti cello position with Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra when she was 24, she returned to South Africa in 2011 after her studies in the USA to continue playing with the orchestra until 2016, which included performances with many renown artists such as Joshua Bell, Andrea Bocelli, Mischa Maisky and Sarah Chang, among others. Thereafter, she joined the faculty as part-time cello lecturer at Stellenbosch University.
Babette values the purpose and potential of cello tuition and mentorship with a unique teaching philosophy encompassing not only emphasis on developing musicianship, technical capability, body awareness and career guidance, but with her knowledge in the legal field (LLB), she integrates legal understanding of the music industry within her cello studio.
Being a keen chamber musician, Babette is cellist of the Juliet String Quartet while freelancing with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and Cape Town Baroque Orchestra. Serving on the board for the South African Strings Foundation and Flat Mountain Project, she hopes to further her vision of creating a platform for strings collaboration and advancement in South Africa.