Press Blog - Composers

2019.06.05

Launch of CD: ‘Songs of Heritage, Hope and Healing’ by Mantombi Matotiyana

On Tuesday 9 April 2019, the CD ‘Songs of Heritage, Hope and Healing’ by Mantombi Matotiyana was launched at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective (TAAC) in Observatory, Cape Town.

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2018.10.15

Chris James piano finds home at AOI, by Marc Röntsch

Marc Röntsch, who started working on the Christopher Langford James archive many years ago, reflects on the donation of the James piano to AOI.

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2018.08.14

Sounding Cities

Sounding Cities is an interdisciplinary project between composers, artists and performers that links the cities of Johannesburg in South Africa and Birmingham in the UK.

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2018.08.07

South African composer Stanley Glasser (1926-2018)

The death has been announced on 5 August of composer and academic Stanley Glasser. Read about his song cycle, Exile, here. This article was originally published in Art South Africa 9:4, 2011.

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2018.01.25

In search of Graham Newcater by Stephanus Muller

Response delivered at the Graham Newcater concert in the Stellenbosch Art Gallery on 25 January 2018 at 7.pm, with a film by Aryan Kaganof and piano performance by Mareli Stolp.

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