Appendix 6 - International Music Council

• Buchuland (Pretoria 1998).
• Lobola (1972).
Hubert Lawrence du Plessis was born on a farm in the Malmesbury district, Cape
Province, on 7 June 1922. After passing Matric at Porterville High School, he studied at
Stellenbosch University (1940-1943) where he obtained a BA, with Music and English as
main subjects. His first composition teacher was William Henry Bell, with whom he
studied from 1942 to 1944
*KLATZOW, Peter (b. Springs, 14 July, 1945)* After matriculating at St Martin's
School, Johannesburg, he spent a year teaching music and Afrikaans at the then newly
established Waterford School, Swaziland. The award of the South African Music Rights
Organisation (SAMRO) scholarship for composers in 1964 took him to the Royal College
of Music in London, where he studied composition with Bernard Stevens, piano with
Kathleen Long, and orchestration with Gordon Jacob. In that year he won several of the
College composition prizes as well as the Royal Philharmonic prize for composition,
which was open to any Commonwealth composer under 30. He spent the following years
in Italy and Paris, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger. Since returning to South
Africa in 1966, he has worked at the SABC in Johannesburg as a music producer, and in
1973 was appointed to the University of Cape Town, where he is presently Associate
Professor in Composition.
God Bless Africa (3') Words by Father Trevor Huddlestone; SATB and organ, or
marimba and strings A Mass for Africa (1994) 20' Sung in Xhosa, Greek, Latin, English;
solo counter tenor, Baritone, Double chorus, horn, flute, 2 marimbas (4 players), strings;
premièred at St George's Cathedral, Sunday before South African elections. Prayers and
Dances of Praise from Africa (1996) 14' Words from An African Prayer Book compiled
by Desmond Tutu; commissioned by SAMRO; SATB, brass quintet (optional) (1997) 15'
Words by Watson; commissioned by Evelyn Glennie and the King Singers; male vocal
ensemble, marimba
Bongani Ndodana was born in Queenstown in 1975 and was educated at St Andrews
College, then at Rhodes University, where his teachers included Ishbel Sholto-Douglas.
He subsequently was awarded a scholarship by the Foundation for the Creative Arts that
allowed him to study composition with Roelof Temmingh at the University of
Stellenbosch. In 1997, Ndodana was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for
Music, one of South Africa’s most prestigious arts prizes. This led to a commission for
his opera-oratorio /Uhambo/ that he conducted at the National Arts Festival in
Grahamstown in 1998.
Ndodana conducting members of Cape Town Opera orchestra /Symphony No. 2
"Umuntu Wa Bantu" /45 min.; 5 movements. (2+2+2+2;2211;1,2perc,strings); orchestra,
soprano, alto and chorus;texts "Veni Creator" and excerpts from the Presidential
Inauguration address by Nelson Mandela of May 10, 1994; commissioned by Madam
Walker Theater Center for the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra with funding from Ford
Foundation/Africa Xchange and Lilly Endowment; premiered July 1998, Madam Walker
Theatre Indianapolis; Stanley de Rusha conducting the ICO /Vela Zulu /Choral-
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