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Liesl

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Liesl van der Merwe is a professor in the School of Music and MASARA at the North-West University, South Africa. Her research interests lie in the fields of music and well-being, positive psychology, music and spirituality, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and lived musical experiences. Liesl supervises qualitative postgraduate music studies in the field of music education and also teaches research methodology, music education and bassoon. She has published articles in high-impact journals. Currently, Liesl is a National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher. She completed the research project: Social Cohesion Through Community Music Engagement in South African Higher Music Education. She was one of the volume editors of the Peter Lang book: Ritualised Belonging: Musicing and Spirituality in the South African Context. Liesl is on the steering and scientific committees of the Music, Spirituality and Wellbeing International Network (MSW) and was vice-chair of the scientific committee of The International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS) from 2021 till 2023.Liesl was one of the keynote speakers at the ICDS5 conference. She has also recently been invited, by the series editor, Prof Liora Bresler, to be on Springer's Editorial Board of the Landscapes: The Arts, Aesthetics, and Education book series, and she was the guest editor of a special edition on positive psychology and music education in the International Journal of Education and the Arts.

She also performs as a bassoonist in chamber music ensembles and is the conductor of the North-West Youth Orchestra.

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Antoinette Olivier

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Vocal pedagogy

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Antoinette

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Antoinette Olivier studied piano and singing at the University of the Witwatersrand. As an active performer she was engaged in professional performances and productions for Pact Opera, Salon Music, Brooklyn Theatre, Roodepoort Theatre and the Black Tie Ensemble. She appears on three of Salon Music’s CD’s and DVD, “Celebration”. Antoinette performed the world premiere of Hendrik Hofmeyr’s Song Cycle for Soprano and Orchestra (1999). In 1999 she became a founder member of the Black Tie Ensemble and since 2003 became involved in their incubator development program for young singers as singing and music theory lecturer (receiving a certificate for excellence as theory teacher by Unisa). Since 2003 Antoinette was a lecturer in singing at the University of Pretoria and at TUT. In 2009 she was a guest lecturer for the UP in Finland as part of an international exchange. She is still very active as a professional singer in all major cities in South Africa in recitals and with the Gauteng Philharmonic Orchestra.

Antoinette was appointed fulltime singing lecturer at the North-West University in Potchefstroom in 2012 where she obtained a Master’s degree in Music, cum laude, and have presented papers at international conferences. She is a recipient of numerous NWU research awards for excellence in music performance and for creative research outputs, as well as an award for teaching excellence. She has published in academic journals such as Koers and SAJCH. In collaboration with her colleagues of the voice department at the NWU School of Music, they were recently nominated by kykNet for a Fiësta award for the RSG Dis Opera production at the Aardklop and KKNK arts festivals which involved all the singing students. Furthermore, she has served as adjudicator on the Mimi Coertse voice competitions as well as on the DVD screening panel at the Unisa National and International voice competitions. She graduated in 2020 with a PhD in music at NWU. Antoinette believes in a healthy holistic development of young singers.

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Mignon van Vreden

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Dr Mignon van Vreden is senior lecturer in music education and an Open Educational Resources (OER) fellow at the North-West University’s School of Music. She completed her BMus, BMus Hons and MMus degrees at Stellenbosch University and received her PhD from the NWU in 2014, exploring a conceptual framework for integrating music in grade R. Her main instrument is piano and research interests include music education in childhood, undergraduate music teacher education, and project-based service learning in higher music education. As part of her OER fellowship, she created an online platform, singingfeelings.com. The project “Singing Feelings” is an initiative to collect, create and facilitate open access musical resources that undergraduate music education students as well as the general public could use to support children’s social-emotional development, by assisting them to express themselves through original songs and musical activities. By making musical resources that relate music education to the socio-emotional development of the child freely available, music education students are finding creative ways to accommodate diversity and multilingualism in their own teaching. She is co-author of “Creative CAPS/Kreatiewe KABV”, a series of teaching manuals for Grade R; contributed to “Teaching Life Skills in the Foundation Phase” (2014), and “Teaching Life Skills in the Foundation Phase 2” (2020) published by Van Schaik; and wrote a chapter for “Music in the lives of young children” (2021), published by Routledge. In 2018 she received a Y2 Rating from the National Research Foundation and was awarded an NWU Emerging Teaching Excellence Award.

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Catrien Wentink

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Catrien

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Catrien Wentink completed her DMus degree in piano performance at the North-West University in 2017 under the guidance of Dr Truida van der Walt. Her focus was on ensemble music and piano accompaniment. In 2009, after postgraduate studies in Youngstown, USA, with Caroline Oltmanns, she received the ABRSM performance licentiate (solo piano) (LRSM) and the Unisa performance licentiate (two pianos) with distinction and was invited to participate in the Unisa bursary winner’s competition. She has been a member of Trio Joie de Vivre since 2018, and together they have performed at numerous festivals. She performs regularly as chamber musician and accompanist. She has worked at the NWU for the past ten years. First, as a lecturer in music education at the Faculty of Education, before joining the School of Music as senior lecturer in music theory in 2016.

Her research focus is on Dalcroze Eurhythmics and music theory analysis. Her current research has been on the application of Dalcroze Eurhythmics in different settings (music ensembles, education on tertiary level, and the elderly). She is also actively involved in community work at a care facility for the elderly since 2018.

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Conroy Cupido

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Prof Conroy Cupido completed a music degree at Stellenbosch University, a Master in Music degree and Artist Certificate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and he was the first South African to complete a Doctorate degree in Vocal Performance which was conferred at the University of North Texas. While a member of Cape Town Opera’s Vocal Ensemble, Prof Cupido was recruited by American soprano and Professor of Voice, Barbara Hill Moore, to further his studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. During his studies abroad he was awarded the Sue Johnson Prize for Best Male Opera Singer and he was a finalist in the National Opera Association Voice Competition and the Shreveport Opera Singer of the Year Competition. He was awarded many merit-based scholarships for international study including the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Bursary, The National Arts Council of South Africa Award, the Schollmeier Foundation Bursary, the Dean’s Camerata Opera Scholarship from the University of North Texas, and The Bruce Foote Foundation Bursary. He has performed roles in operas and oratorios and has sung in many recitals in South Africa, the United States and in Europe. He has also been published in peer-reviewed journals. His research mainly concerns singing pedagogy, visual art and music collaboration, and singers’ wellbeing. He is an Associate Professor at North-West University and his students have won major competitions and continue to perform in South Africa, Europe and America. In 2013, Prof Cupido received an award from NWU for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2017 he received two awards for Excellence in creative outputs.

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Jaco H. Kruger

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Jaco

Kruger

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Jaco Kruger has been studying the musical culture of the Venda people of the Vhembe district of South Africa’s Limpopo Province since 1983. He completed a M.Mus dissertation under the supervision of Deirdre Hansen (UCT) in 1985 on Venda musical bows and the xylophone, and a doctoral thesis on Venda guitar music in 1993 under the guidance of Andrew Tracey (Rhodes).

Jaco joined the University of Venda as lecturer in 1986. He has been teaching musicology in the School of Music at North-West University in Potchefstroom since 1995. His essays on Venda musical culture appear in the Journal of Ethnomusicology, the Journal of African Music, the South African Journal of Musicology, the British Journal of Ethnomusicology, the Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, the Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, Literator, LitNet and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Jaco is dedicated towards developing a new music curriculum for South Africa. To this end he makes regular contributions towards The Talking Drum (PASMAE, in collaboration with the University of KwaZulu-Natal). Jaco currently specialises in the documentation and study of Venda musical arts of precolonial origin, and has edited three annotated collections of Venda ngano song stories, namely Venda lashu: Tshivenda songs, song stories and musical games (North-West University, 2004), The flamboyant rooster and other Tshivenda song stories (North-West University, 2007) and The girls in the baobab: Venda stories from the Limpopo Valley (2nd edition, North-West University, 2013). A fourth collection is forthcoming.

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