Graduates

• March 2020
  • • • PhD’s:
        • Grace Talabi, ‘A study of the music and social meaning of selected choral works from Dayọ̀ Oyedun’s cantatas’, supervisors: Prof Stephanus Muller & Dr Paula Fourie.
      • Master’s:
        • Ashrudeen Waggie, ‘“Its just a matter of time”: African American musicians and the Cultural Boycott in South Africa, 1968-1983’, supervisors: Dr Lizabé Lambrechts and Dr Chet Fransch (History).

• March 2019
  • • • PhD’s:
        • Annemie Behr, ‘Constructing a history from music reportage: Jewish musical life in South Africa, 1930-1948.’, supervisor: Prof Stephanus Muller.

  December 2018

  • • • PhD’s:
        • Wayne Muller,  ‘A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015)’, supervisor: Prof Stephanus Muller.
      • Master’s:
        • Beatrix Kirsten, ‘Reading the Paratext: Leib Kirschner’s Cantorial Anthology of 1910’, http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/105053, supervisor: Dr. Hilde Roos.

  March 2018

  • • • Master’s:
        • Oladele Ayorinde, ‘Dizu Plaatjies and the Amampondo: Music, Agency and Social Transformation’, http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/103371, supervisor: Prof Stephanus Muller.
        • Nduduzo Makhathini, ‘Encountering Bheki Mseleku: a Biographical-analytical consideration of his life and music’, http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/103795, supervisors: Dr Stephanie Vos, Dr Jonathan Eato (University of York) & Prof Stephanus Muller.
        • Kyle Shepherd, Interrogating the own: a practise-based, auto-ethnographic reflection on musical creation with reference to the work of Abdullah Ibrahim, Zim Ngqawana and Kyle Shepherd,  http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/103764, supervisors: Dr Stephanie Vos, Dr Jonathan Eato (University of York) & Prof Stephanus Muller.

  December 2017

  • • • PhD’s:
        • Claudia Jansen van Rensburg, Perspectives on musical strategies of settlement and migration: four case studies from the Western Cape, South Africa’, supervisors: Prof Stephanus Muller & Dr Thomas Cousins.
        • Marc Röntsch, ‘An Anthology of Existence: Explorations into the Life and Works of Christopher Langford James (1952 – 2008)’, supervisor: Prof Stephanus Muller.
        • Jackie Bullindah, ‘Creative processes in generating theatrical music for plays in Kenya’, supervisors: Prof Stephanus Muller & Prof Emily Akuno (The Co-operative University of Kenya).

  March 2017

  • • Master’s:
      • Michael Dunseith, ‘Manifestations of ‘langarm’: from colonial roots to contemporary practices’, http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/101096, supervisor: Prof Stephanus Muller.
      • Inge Engelbrecht, ‘Die Komponiste van Genadendal’, http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/101338, supervisors: Dr Aletta Coertzen & Prof Stephanus Muller.
      • Myles Roberts, ‘The life of Raffaele Trevisani, and his contribution to modern day flute pedagogy’, http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/101059, supervisors: Prof Corvin Matei & Dr Hilde Roos