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Michelle Hester

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Michelle Pretorius is a South African singer, actress, researcher and lecturer. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Commercial Music at the School of Music at NWU. Michelle holds a BMus from the University of Pretoria, an MMus from the South African College of Music, a MA Musical Theatre from the Guildford School of Acting in the UK, and a PhD in Musicology from Wits University. She is a passionate researcher within the studies of theatre, audience, celebrity and fandom. In 2024 Michelle also did a TEDx talk at the University of Chester in the UK.

Michelle’s performance and direction credits include Sister Act the musical at Joburg Theatre in 2015, the role of Urusla the Sea Witch in the production of The Little Mermaid at the People's Theatre in Johannesburg in 2015 for which she received a nomination for a Naledi Award for best actress in a children's musical. The Afrikaans Pantomime, Sneeuwitjie, at the Marcealous Theatre at Emporers Palace in Johannesburg in 2016.

After relocating to the United Kingdom Shelly took part in the development of a new musical, The Crocodile of Old Kang Pow, with Bunker Theatre Productions in London, in the workshop as the of role of Momolow in 2017. In 2021 Shelly performed in South African Stories Through Song at the Ludlow Fringe Festival.

As a director, Shelly directed Carrie the Musical, Ruthless the Musical and her own song cycle UnSeen at the Walker Theatre in Shrewsbury in the UK between the years of 2022 and 2024. She also directed and performed in Fred the Musical, a new work, at the Liverpool Theatre festival in 2023. Furthermore, Shelly performed in her own musical song cycle, UnSeen (for which she is lyricist and book writer), at the Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton for the LEAP Festival.

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Waldo Weyer

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Art of performance, piano performance, piano pedagogy, deliberate practice

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_{As professional pianist, Waldo has more than 30 years performance experience as soloist, collaborative pianist, and chamber musician. His interest in the art of performance is intricately linked with his work as artist-teacher and includes expert knowledge on deliberate practice and the psychology of performance. He is also well-versed in performance related issues such as philosophies of interpretation and aesthetics, especially in terms of twentieth and twenty-first century piano repertoire. As collaborative pianist he specialises in vocal accompaniment and coaching. His piano pedagogy expertise includes psycho-technical piano pedagogy, beginner teaching, learning theories, and the natural learning process.}

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Piet Koornhof

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Piet Koornhof has more than four decades of experience as professional violinist, ensemble player and teacher. He studied with Susan Sauerman, Alan Solomon and later with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York. He founded the South African Chamber Music Society in 1986 which presented top South African chamber music performers in concerts and international recordings. He has recorded for Koch Discover International and Delos. He is also a qualified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

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Tinus Botha

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Pianist and educator Tinus Botha has been the recipient of several awards, including the silver medal at the Hennie Joubert Piano Competition in Wellington, the UNISA South African Music Scholarship, Unisa’s DJ Roode Overseas Scholarship, and the Gertrude Buchanan Prize. He was a finalist and prize winner in the first Nederburg South African National Piano Competition. During his undergraduate studies, he completed three licentiates – teacher’s and performer’s licentiates from Unisa, as well as a performer’s licentiate from Trinity College.

He has had master classes with renowned professors such as Dorian Leljak, Andzrej Jasinski, Maria Gineva, Gustavo Romero, Timothy Ehlen, Martino Tirimo, Fabio Bidini, Russell Sherman, and Zhou Guangren, among others. He is an alumnus of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. In January 2000 he moved to Fort Worth, Texas to pursue postgraduate studies under the tutelage of José Feghali and Harold Martina at Texas Christian University. During this time, he held a graduate assistantship, and received the Lili Kraus award from TCU. He graduated with an MMus in May 2003. In April 2008, his formal studies were concluded with the conferral of the DMus (Performing Arts) degree by the University of Pretoria under the guidance of Joseph Stanford.

He performs widely as soloist, collaborator, and chamber musician, and has appeared in many cities in South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. He has been an adjudicator at several major national music competitions and acts as external examiner for various South African universities.

Tinus is currently associate professor of piano at North-West University in Potchefstroom, as well as co-president of the South African chapter of the World Piano Teachers Association. He was appointed as editor of The South African Music Teacher in July 2018, and his essays have been published in the SAMT, Clavier Companion, Piano Magazine, and The Piano Journal.

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