Executive Committee
Zelda Potgieter (Chair)
E-mail: Zelda.potgieter@nmmu.ac.za
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Zelda Potgieter is associate professor in musicology and head of department at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Music Department, where she teaches music theory, aural development, musicology and film music, and where she is active in the management and supervision of postgraduate students. Her research interest has always been in the field of musical meaning, wherein she has inter alia written a doctoral thesis that engages with and critiques various traditional theories of tonal musical meaning, including those of Schenker, Schoenberg, Reti, Tovey, Meyer, Narmour, Figurenlehre, hermeneutics and semiotics. More recently she has published several articles that engage film music scholarship with psychoanalytic film theory. In 2005 she spent three months as visiting scholar at St Johns College, Cambridge. She is active as external examiner throughout South Africa and currently serves as member of the editorial board for the journal Musicus. |
Brett Pyper (Vice Chair)
E-mail: bpyper@kknk.co.za
Brett Pyper began his career as an arts administrator and facilitator of developmental music projects during the transition from apartheid. He worked for the then Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal and subsequently as a freelance project coordinator, before taking up a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States, where he was based for six years. He holds Master’s degrees from Emory University (in Public Culture) and New York University (in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies), and is currently writing a doctoral dissertation on contemporary jazz culture in South Africa. From 2005 to 2007, he headed the Division of Heritage Studies and Cultural Management in the Wits School of Arts. He is Chair of the South African Society for Research in Music. He has been CEO of the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival since August 2007.
Hilde Roos (Treasurer)
E-mail: roosh@sun.ac.za
Annemie Stimie (Secretary)
E-mail: sasrim@gmail.com
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Annemie Stimie is currently a Master’s student of musicology at the University of Stellenbosch. Her thesis focuses primarily on tracing notions of cosmopolitanism in Afrikaans music historiography of the early twentieth century. Her other research interests concern Jewishness and music in South Africa. |
Musonda Chimba
E-mail: musondachimba@gmail.com
Tel.: (031) 332 0451
Claudio Chipendo
E-mail: clauchipendo@yahoo.co.uk
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Claudio Chipendo is a music lecturer in the Department of Music and Musicology at Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. He holds a certificate in Education, and Bachelor and Masters degrees, all from the University of Zimbabwe. He also holds a Diploma in Ethnomusicology from the Zimbabwe College of Music. He is currently studying towards his PhD degree in Music at the University of Fort Hare. He has taught music at Morgan Zintec College, Seke Teachers' College, Zimbabwe College of Music and Gweru Academy of Music. He has attended and presented papers at several local and international conferences. |
Willemien Froneman
E-mail: willemien.froneman@nwu.ac.za
Jaco Kruger
E-mail: Jaco.Kruger@nwu.ac.za
Tel.: (018) 299 1705
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Jaco Kruger studied ethnomusicology at the Universities of Cape Town and Rhodes. He lectured in ethnomusicology at the University of Venda from 1986-1994. He has been teaching popular music and ethnomusicology in the School of Music at North-West University in Potchefstroom since 1995. His essays on Venda music appear in the Journal of Ethnomusicology, African Music, South African Journal of Musicology, British Journal of Ethnomusicology, Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He has also published two collections of Venda music, namely Venda lashu: Tshivenda songs, song stories and musical games (North-West University, 2004) and The flamboyant rooster and other Tshivenda song stories (North-West University, 2007). |
Michael Nixon
E-mail: michael.nixon@uct.ac.za
Michael Nixon (senior lecturer, head Ethnomusicology and African Music at the SA College of Music, University of Cape Town) has published on South African and South Indian musics besides other topics. He studied at the University of Madras (BA, Eng Lit), Wesleyan University (MA, Ethnomusicology), the University of Washington, Seattle, and trained in South Indian and West and South African music traditions. He was a lecturer at the University of Durban-Westville, and has taught courses at several universities in South Africa and the USA. He continues to teach music performance at the community level. In 1980 he co-founded Sampradaya, a music performance/archives/research initiative in Chennai (today partnered with the major performing arts institution, Kalakshetra), and was asked to establish the Sound Archives of the District Six Museum, Cape Town in 1997. His doctoral research in social anthropology (UCT) focuses on the PR Kirby Collection, which he curates.
Beverly Parker
E-mail: bphome@telkomsa.net
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Beverly Parker is an Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She edited Vols. 13—23 of SAMUS and co-edited a catalogue of South African theses in music. Her research includes work in the fields of Western classical music, adult music education, and Tanzanian and South African music. She has published articles in SAMUS, The Musical Quarterly, College Music Symposium, the International Society for Music Education Yearbook, and the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. |
Alvin Petersen
E-mail: 10154345@nwu.ac.za
Tel.: (018) 299 1732
Alvin Petersen’s key research foci are African music and music education. As a music maker who firmly believes that musical performance should constitute a cornerstone of being a musician, he enjoys instrumental performance on both African and western instruments, especially the piano. He also has an abiding interest in jazz.
He was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship which enabled him to read for a second MMus at Butler University in Indianapolis, USA. Whist there he served as a consultant to the Indianapolis Childrens’ Choir. On his return to South Africa he was appointed as Head of Music at the University of the Western Cape. He also served in this capacity at the University of Fort Hare in Alice (Eastern Cape Province). Whilst in the Eastern Cape Alvin completed his doctorate under the supervision of Prof David Dargie, an internationally recognized authority on Xhosa music.
He served as president of the Southern African Music Educators’ Society as well as a board/executive member of the International Society for Music Education. Currently he is a board member of the South African Society for Research in Music and a member of the International Centre for Traditional Music. He has also directed a research project on Xhosa music and oral history, under the auspices of the Ministry of Arts and Culture.
Alvin is an external examiner to the music departments of several South African universities. He was appointed in 2005 as Senior Lecturer in African Music at the School of Music (Potchefstroom) of North West University.
Nishlyn Ramanna
E-mail: ramanna@ukzn.ac.za
Tel.: (031) 260 3392