Appendix 6 - International Music Council

eceived tuition in composition from John Lambert and Tristram Carey. A
meeting with György Ligeti led to an invitation to join his class in
Hamburg. His use of contrapuntal devices and tone colour proved a major
influence. Zaidel-Rudolph also specialised in piano performance; her
teachers included Goldie Zaidel, Philip Levy and Adolph Hallis in South
Africa, and John Lill in London. Zaidel-Rudolph returned to South Africa
and became the first woman in the country to obtain a Doctorate in
Composition, in 1979 at the University of Pretoria under Stefans Grové.
Zaidel-Rudolph's compositional output is considerable, covering most
musical genres, ranging from the large scale symphony to chamber,
choral, ballet, rock opera, film and solo instrumental music. Her works
are regularly performed in Africa, Europe and America.
Zaidel-Rudolph has been the recipient of many awards. In 1974, she was
the first South African composer to be awarded the prestigious Cobbett
Prize for composition at the Royal College of Music. In 1986 she won
the first prize in the first-ever Total Oil (SA) Competition in South
Africa. In 1988 the first complete commercial recording of the works of
a South African art music composer featured her music on an EMI album.
She was also commissioned to write a work (Oratorio for Human Rights)
for the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
In 1995 she arranged a composite version of South Africa’s erstwhile and new National
Anthems at the request of President Nelson Mandela. She also composed a song
(Hewalked to Freedom) for his honorary doctorate ceremony in 1997.
Zaidel-Rudolph has been working at the School of Music of the University
of the Witwatersrand since 1975, where she is currently Professor of
Composition. She is frequently invited to lecture on indigenous African
music at international music festivals.
Roelof Temmingh (born Amsterdam, 28 September 1946)
Roelof Temmingh was born in Amsterdam, and moved to South Africa when
his family emigrated there in 1958. He obtained his BMus, BA and MMus at
the University of Cape Town between 1965 and 1970, thereafter studied
composition in Germany, and was appointed to teach at the University of
Stellenbosch in 1973. In 1976, he obtained a PhD in Musicology and in
1979 he studied computer music at the University of Utrecht in the
Netherlands. Temmingh has established himself as one of the leading
composers in South Africa. Initially he aroused some controversy with a
number of experimental works. From circa 1985 onwards, these tendencies
became less notable, as may be observed in his three operas:
• EnochProphet of God (premiered in Cape Town in 1995),
• Sacred Bones (Cape Town 1997) and
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