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The Symposium of South African Composers is a meeting place for young and established creators, to foster and share home-grown multi-genre music in an environment that encourages connection and collaboration.
We strive towards providing exposure and opportunities especially to young composers, offering high-quality performances to the community, encouraging potential for creative research, producing recordings for future distribution, and increasing exposure for South African music.
Festival pass holders will have unrestricted access to all symposium events at a whopping 40% discount! This includes all workshops, concerts, and other events. Please visit
Join us for an exciting array of South African music in this opening concert of the 2024 Symposium of South African Composers. Experience the world premiere of "Samsara," a composition by 2023 SoSAC Festival Prize Winner Lusibalwetu Sesanti, specially composed for this event.
USSWE comprises talented undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional musicians from Stellenbosch and Cape Town, all united under the baton of the esteemed ensemble leader Pamela Kierman and international guest conductors.
Festival pass holders gain free entry.
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This combination seminar, workshop, and performance will give participants the opportunity to work with African music specialist Ncebakazi Mnukwana in creating an indigenous musical score. Some singing will be involved, and participants will have the opportunity to explore and implement various practices of oral composition. The session will conclude with a musical performance.
Festival pass holders gain free entry.
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The Mizar Trio (Louisa Theart, Rosamund Ender, Dylan Tabisher) brings their eclectic and highly musical presence to audience members. Mizar will present a programme of contemporary works for flute, marimba/vibraphone and cello by established and younger South African composers, and promise a glimpse into the beautiful and varied sonic landscape of music at the southern tip of Africa.
Festival pass holders gain free entry.
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You are invited to a performance-lecture by the esteemed South African jazz composer, pianist, and band leader, Ramon Alexander. In this session he will give you a glimpse into his compositional process, focusing on his inspirations and influences. He will be joined by Dylan Tabisher on double-bass, and Stuart Martin on drums.
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Our festival orchestra, generously supported by Mzansi Philharmonic and conducted by Liam Burden, features acclaimed local and international musicians. Join us for an exciting and innovative programme of orchestral music by established and younger South African composers, as we explore sonic textures and architectures of the 21st century.
Festival pass holders gain free entry.
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The pipe organ: one of the oldest and largest instruments western civilization has ever produced! Because of its age and origins the instrument carries a large sense of mysticism to it. In an attempt to address the mysticism revolving around the instrument, this workshop and concert will address the various components in organ playing such as organ building, registration and hymn playing. Composers will have the opportunity to learn about and explore this larger-than-life instrument in unprecedented detail and scope.
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`Her Flute Space` showcases four flute compositions by contemporary women composers Lize Briel, Elizabeth Brown, Clare Loveday, and veteran trailblazer Thea Musgrave. These flute works explore acoustic sound travelling through various spaces. The programme prompts one to consider acoustics as an architectural arch (Brown), the concert hall as a duet partner (Briel), the Underworld as sound capsule (Musgrave`s Orfeé) and to consider poignant minimalist sounds associated with starlight in the galaxies (Loveday).
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A multi-instrumental, collaborative programme of new music that explores the many possibilities surrounding music and memory. Featuring the world premiere of Clare Loveday`s In Memoriam for saxophone and piano and Jay Capernauld`s Déjà Vu inspired by the potential of holographic simulation, Echoes & Illusions takes the voice of the saxophone combined with organ, piano and more to explore a diverse approach to how sound reimagines or recaptures what reimagines or recaptures what was once in front of us.
All concert ticket holders gain entry to the composing for saxophone workshop from 10:00 - 12:00 on Friday.
Festival pass holders gain free entry.
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