As students at Stellenbosch University, Lucinda specialised in Music Education and taught music lessons as part of the community music project Jamestown Sounds, while Roché studied Music Composition under the tutelage of Hans Roosenschoon.

After Roché completed 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 postgraduate diploma in Composition. From the UK the couple moved to The Hague in the Netherlands where Lucinda studied for a master’s degree in Music Education at the Royal Conservatoire.

For Lucinda's research, the couple started a project called Krab Music (krabmuziek.wordpress.com), which is aimed at bringing music composition to young learners with the use of hands-on electronic sound generators. This project is a perfect fusion 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. In 2019, Krab Music was invited to take part in the annual music festival ‘Rewire’ (https://www.rewirefestival.nl/artist/creative-sound-lab).

Apart from hosting Krab Music workshops, Lucinda has a private piano studio and teaches violin.

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, and 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. It is a true celebration of diversity in South Africa. Visit Roché’s website to listen to some of his works (rochevantiddens.wordpress.com).

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