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    Conductors take to the stage

    Grocott's MailBy Grocott's MailJuly 25, 2013No Comments3 Mins Read
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    His choir made headlines during the National Arts Festival going up against performance artist Anthea Moys.

    Now conductor of the acclaimed (and victorious) Victoria Girls' High School Choir, Sibusiso Mkhize is under the spotlight as the members of three of Grahamstown's best known choirs get to hear their mentors in action in a concert next Friday night.

    His choir made headlines during the National Arts Festival going up against performance artist Anthea Moys.

    Now conductor of the acclaimed (and victorious) Victoria Girls' High School Choir, Sibusiso Mkhize is under the spotlight as the members of three of Grahamstown's best known choirs get to hear their mentors in action in a concert next Friday night.

    Mkhize will present An Evening of Baroque Music at 7.30pm in the Beethoven Room, accompanied on piano by director of the Rhodes and Pro Carmine choirs, Peter Breetzke.

    His choir made headlines during the National Arts Festival going up against performance artist Anthea Moys.

    Now conductor of the acclaimed (and victorious) Victoria Girls' High School Choir, Sibusiso Mkhize is under the spotlight as the members of three of Grahamstown's best known choirs get to hear their mentors in action in a concert next on Friday 2 August.

    Mkhize will present An Evening of Baroque Music in the Beethoven Room.

    The tenor, whose performance highlights include the role of Alfredo in a Gothenburg, Sweden, production of La Traviata and Lensky in a German production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, will be accompanied on piano by director of the Rhodes and Pro Carmine choirs, Peter Breetzke.

    The three Grahamstown choirs were featured at this year's National Arts Festival in a performance art project by Standard Bank Young Artist, Anthea Moys.

    Mkhize studied Voice at the University of KwaZulu-Natal under Colleen Philp and in 2001 performed extensively with the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra as a member of SA's version of The Three Tenors.

    He studied singing at Gothenburg University in Sweden and in Dallas at South Methodist University under Professor Barbara Hillmore, as part of an exchange programme organised by the UKZN Opera School and performed several times at The New School university in New York.

    He has had Master Classes with Gunnar Ericcson in Sweden and Angelo Gobatto at UCT Opera School. Mkhize is the music director of Joza-based Grahamstown Opera Rising Stars based in Joza. Some of his students now perform with Cape Town-based Artscape.

    Mkhize conducts the Victoria Girls' High School Choir, which he took on tour in Europe in 2006 and 2011. He is studying piano with Mariel Ilusorio.

    The concert in the Rhodes music department's Beethoven Room starts at 7.30pm. The R20 entrance is to cover the cost of hiring the venue.

    Programme highlights include Pietà Signore by Italian middle Baroque composer Alessandro Stradella, Bach's Bist du bei mir from the Anna Magdalena Notebook and Where'er you walk, from Handel's opera, Semele.

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