Staff

Jonathan Crossley

Jonathan Crossley is on sabbatical from January to June 2012.

Jonathan Crossley is a multi-faceted guitarist equally at home in a wide variety of styles ranging from jazz to classical music, as well as rock and even electronica. As a classical player he received numerous awards and completed a BMus at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1997. During his undergraduate studies he also made various study trips overseas, which included studying with Elliot Fisk in Spain and composer/guitarist Helmut Jasbar in Vienna. In 1998 Jonathan changed direction and began studying jazz guitar under Johnny Fourie. He completed a MMus (Cum Laude) at Wits, researching the techniques and life of Johnny Fourie. His most recent project 'The Jonathan Crossley Electric Band - Funk for the Shaolin Monk' has found success in the international market and over the past four years he has been touring in Spain, Belgium, Slovakia, Austria and has received repeat invitations to perform in the Czech Republic .www.jonathancrossley.co.za

Room 307

Lindelwa Dalamba

Lindelwa Dalamba graduated from Rhodes University and from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research interests centre in South African jazz and jazz-influenced popular music styles, exile, memory, music historiography and the place of music in South African literature. She is currently reading for her PhD (Historical Musicology) at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Her dissertation focuses on South African Jazz in England during the apartheid years (1961-1985). It explores how ‘South African jazz’ intersected with discourses on ‘African jazz’ (1960s), free jazz and/or improvised music (1970s) and the turn to so-called ‘world music’ in the 1980s.

Room 127

Tel: 011 717 4666

Email
Lindelwa.Dalamba@wits.ac.za

Marian Friedman

Marian Friedman's musical career began at the age of seven when she became the youngest pianist to perform on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) programme ?Young South Africa?. From the age of ten she performed throughout South Africa giving recitals, concertos and recordings for the SABC. Marian attended master classes with Peter Feuchtwanger (Vice President of the European Piano Teachers Association) in England, Vienna, Switzerland and Japan, and was special assistant to Menahem Pressler. She has performed and broadcast in Europe and the USA (most recently at the Newport International Music Festival, Rhode Island). A CD titled Marian Friedman in Concert (CD BMG label CDCLA (WM) 002) is currently available. Marian Friedman is Principal Tutor (Senior Lecturer) in the Wits School of Arts, and is coordinator of undergraduate performance studies.

Room 304

Tel: 011 717 4669

Email
Marian.Friedman@wits.ac.za

Dr Cameron Harris

Cameron Harris is a British composer and oboist who has lived in South Africa since 2006. He is the chair of NewMusicSA, the South African section of the International Society for Contemporary Music and from 2007-2009 he coordinated the New Music Indaba festival, which combines workshops for emerging composers with performances of South African and international contemporary music. (www.newmusicsa.org.za)

Cameron studied at the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester and Pennsylvania with composers including Nigel Osborne, John Casken, James Primosch and Jay Reise. In America he was the recipient of a Thouron and a Benjamin Franklin fellowship. He also won the Network for New Music Composition Competition in Philadelphia and the David Halstead Composition Prize. In 2007 he performed at the Ostrava festival (Czech Republic), which included works by Stockhausen and Ustvolskaya and the premiere of Quodlibet by Christian Wolf. His orchestral work, Three Night Pieces , was also read at the festival.

Cameron coordinates the first- and second-year Music Literacies and Skills courses, and teaches music theory and a fourth-year module on electro-acoustic composition.

Room 128

Tel. 011 717 4619

Email
Cameron.Harris@wits.ac.za

Dr Susan Harrop-Allin

Susan Harrop-Allin is a teacher-educator, pianist and project manager who has worked in the arts development sector for twenty years. She joined the Wits School of Arts on the part-time staff in 2007, where she teaches Music Research, Music in History and Society, Ethnomusicology and the post-graduate certificate in Arts and Culture Education. Her research interest is investigating relationships between children's musical practices and arts and culture curriculum implementation in South Africa. Susan is an active musician, performing regularly as a pianist with Il Trio Rosso, as an accompanist and with the Chanticleer Singers.

Susan is committed to the inter-disciplinary project of the Wits School of Arts, particularly creating a vibrant intellectual community of academics, arts practitioners and educators. She is equally dedicated to coffee, collaboration and creating opportunities to connect music, cultural development and community-building with her love of the bushveld and all things South African.

Room 132

Tel: 011 717 4608

Email
susan.harrop-allin@wits.ac.za

Dr Marie Jorritsma

Marie Jorritsma is a South African born ethnomusicologist who studied at the University of Port Elizabeth (now Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University), Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania. Marie's research interests centre primarily in South African music, in particular Karoo church music, and broader issues of post-colonialism, nationalism and gender. Her work has appeared in the African Music journal and SAMUS and she is currently preparing a book manuscript, Sonic spaces of the Karoo, for publication by Temple University Press in 2010. She has presented guest lectures at Stellenbosch University and the University of Jyväskylä Finland and also delivered research papers at various conferences, including the Society for Ethnomusicology, the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the South African Society for Research in Music (Sasrim). Marie served as Sasrim secretary from 2006-2009 and is currently the reviews editor for the Muziki journal. She particularly enjoys teaching in the world music and South African music fields.

Room 224

Tel: 011 717 4607

Email
Marie.Jorritsma@wits.ac.za

Mokale Koapeng

A graduate of Wits University, composer and choral practitioner Mokale Koapeng has taught at and headed music departments in community-based music schools such as the Funda Centre, Fuba and Alexandra Arts Centre.

Together with Sibongile Khumalo, Motsumi Makhene and Hugh Masekela, he co-composed the music of the SAMA-award winning CD Milestones , and his gospel group, SDASA Chorale, recorded a collaborative CD titled Simunye with British vocal ensemble I Fagiolini. He has composed music for various ensembles and international festivals, such as Consonances (France), the Salisbury Community Choir (UK), Gillespie String Trio (Ireland), Nightingale String Quartet (Denmark), and at home for the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown; Ihlombe South African Choral Festival; New Music Indaba; and South African National Youth Orchestra, amongst others.

Mokale serves on the artistic committee of the National Arts Festival, the board of Ingoma Music Trust, and is a founding member Music Now, an organization promoting new music in the Gauteng Province. He teaches music theory, aural, and choral composition.

Room 306

Tel. 011 717 4662

Email
Mokale.Koapeng@wits.ac.za

Dr Carlo Mombelli

Bassist/composer Carlo Mombelli started playing bass at the age of 16 and seven years later joined the band of one of South Africa's most important jazz guitarists, Johnny Fourie. Carlo has worked with most of the major South African jazz musicians, including Marcus Wyatt, Tlale Makhene, Simphiwe Dana, Sibongile Khumalo and Miriam Makeba. He has written works for ballet, film and animation, as well as for various experimental jazz combinations. At present he performs his music with The Prisoners of Strange, and their latest CD I Stared into My Head (2007) was nominated for a SAMA award in 2008. Carlo?s most recent collaborative project is with the French company Lutherie Urbaine, performing music on instruments built from recycled material. Carlo gives weekly workshops for children in Soweto and Mamelodi teaching them music played on recycled material.

www.carlomombelli.com

Room 302

Tel 011 717 4664

Email
CMombelli@mweb.co.za

Professor Malcolm Nay

Malcolm Nay is widely regarded as one of the finest chamber pianists and accompanists in South Africa. As a chamber musician, his repertoire includes most of the important works of the major composers, and he has taken part in series of recitals featuring all ten of Beethoven's violin sonatas, Brahms violin sonatas and piano trios, as well as works by Dvorak and Rachmaninov amongst many others. He is a member of both the Musaion Piano Trio and the Hemanay Flute Trio, leading ensemble groups in South Africa. He regularly accompanies international artists on their South African tours. As a soloist, he has appeared with most of South Africa's major orchestras: he is remembered especially for performances of the Mozart concertos, which he conducted from the keyboard. Internationally, he has taken part in the National Flute Association World Convention, and the Internationale Stichting Masterclasses at Appeldoorn, Holland.Malcolm Nay is currently an Associate Professor in Music in the Wits School of Arts, and is coordinator of postgraduate performance studies.

Room 305

Tel: 011 717 4668

Email
Malcolm.Nay@wits.ac.za

Dr Grant Olwage

Dr Olwage is on sabbatical from April 2012 to March 2013

Grant Olwage is a graduate of Christ Church College, University of Oxford, and Rhodes University, and has held research fellowships at the Universities of Amsterdam and the Witwatersrand.His teaching interests traverse the gamut of western art music, South African music and popular music, though his focus is on musics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Grant's research interests include Victoriana, the voice, aspects of South African music, and (some) popular music. Most recently he edited a volume of essays titled Composing Apartheid: Music For and Against Apartheid (Wits University Press, 2008). Select publications:

• John Knox Bokwe, Colonial Composer. Tales about Race and Music?. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 131/1, 2006, 1-37.
• Discipline and Choralism: The Birth of Musical Colonialism?. In Music, Power, and Politics, ed. Annie J. Randall, 25-46. New York: Routledge, 2005.
• The Class and Colour of Tone: An Essay on the Social History of Vocal Timbre. Ethnomusicology Forum, 13/2, 2004, 203-26.

Room 124

Tel: 011 717 4655

Email
Grant.Olwage@wits.ac.za

Donato Somma

Donato Somma teaches in the Music in History and Society courses at various levels and also co-ordinates and teaches on the first-year core course Film, Visual and Performing Arts. He holds a Music Masters and has a background in classical voice. He is a PhD candidate as of 2011. Teaching and research areas include issues of music and identity and the voice. The richness of interdisciplinary work is another area of interest. Donato is also the student liaison for the Music Division. Masters research into the Prisoner of War experience of Italians in South Africa during the Second World War has led to a number of publications as well as forming the basis for his PhD work. The various creative endeavours of these prisoners, and in particular the music they created, feed into a number of Donato’s key interest areas.

Room 126

Tel: 011 717 4616

Email
Donato.Somma@wits.ac.za

Professor Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph - Head of Music

Professor of Composition and Theory, Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph studied with some of the world's most famous musicians, including John Lill at the Royal College of Music in London and Gyorgy Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany. In 1979 she obtained a Doctorate of Music in Composition, the first woman in South Africa to do so. An accomplished pianist and composer of international repute, Prof. Zaidel-Rudolph has composed over 70 commissioned works, which have been broadcast and performed both locally and internationally. She produced the official composite version of the present South African national anthem. In 2003 Zaidel-Rudolph composed a large-scale intercultural work, Lifecycle, written for the Ngqoko Women's Choir and an ensemble of 11 western instruments, an article on which has appeared in the world of music. In 2004 South African president Thabo Mbeki presented Prof. Zaidel-Rudolph with the Order of Ikhamanga medal for her excellent contribution to music nationally and internationally, and in 2005 Jeanne was granted a B3 rating by the National Research Foundation of South Africa for her creative work as a composer as well as her academic research. Her areas of research include the overtone singing of the amaXhosa and music analysis systems.Prof. Zaidel-Rudolph is coordinator of composition studies.
www.jeannezaidel-rudolph.com

Room 125

Tel 011 717 4665

Email
Jeanne.Zaidel-Rudolph@wits.ac.za