Appendix 6 - International Music Council

Standard Bank National Arts Festival /Alleluias /Ensemble; premiered July 1995,
Beethoven Auditorium, Fringe Festival of Standard Bank National Arts Festival (score
withdrawn by the composer) /Noupoort Fragments/ String quartet, October 1998 /The
year of the Famine /Song cycle for Bass Bar and piano (for Abel Motshoadi); written
January 1999; premiere August 2001 /Dialogue for Cello and Piano/ Premiered Chicago
Cultural Center's Cassidy Theatre, August 1997; dedicated to Itamar Cohen /Jerry and
Dirk's Anniversary /Harpsichord; March 1998 /Five Preludes after Shakespeare/ Piano;
August 1996 Beethoven Auditorium, Grahamstown /Pas de deux sauvage /2 pianos;
commissioned by SAMRO for Jill Richards and Michael Blake; premiered on European
recital tour, August 1999 /But There Went Up A Mist.../ Organ; premiered by Gerrit
Jordaan, 1998; recorded by Obelisk Music /The Garden /Organ; February 1999 (can be
performed as 2nd movement to But There Went Up...) /A Mari Usque Ad Mare /Organ;
February 1999 (can be performed as 3rd movement to But There Went Up...) /Lives in
Letter Beads /Piano; commissioned by SAMRO for the South African Society of Music
Teachers; January 2000 /Visions/* *(in 2 parts) Solo flute/violin; written for Wendy
Hymes; Feb 2000 /Flowers in Sand/* *(in 2 parts) Piano; written for Lucius Weathersby;
February 2000 *Choral Works: */Sharpville Gloria/ Written for Canta Nova of Hannover,
Germany; Matt Schuermann, director /Lamentatio (Part 1) /Written for the choir of
Wadham College, Oxford; Lawrence Schaffer, director. /Haec Dies /SATB; written in
Jerusalem; 1997 /There is no Rose of such Virtue /SSAATTBB; for the Rhodes Chamber
Choir, conducted by Christopher Cockburn; August 1996 /Rain song /SA; commissioned
by Juanita Lamprecht; first performed Port Elizabeth UPE Cultura 1996
Daniël Johannes Taljaard (born Soutpansberg district [Siloam], 13 March 1976)
Hannes Taljaard was born in Venda, the northernmost part of South Africa. He very soon
developed a keen interest in music.
His formal music education began in Potchefstroom at the age of seven, and his first
attempts at composition date from the same period. During his school years, he took
lessons on the piano, recorder and organ as well as in harmony and counterpoint.
Taljaard's BMus degree in Music Theory and Composition was completed in 1993,
together with an Honours Degree in French Literature; both degrees were awarded cum
laude. He was awarded an MMus (on the teaching of composition and music analysis)
cum laude in 1997. He has taught harmony, counterpoint, analysis, aural training,
composition and orchestration at Potchefstroom University since 1994. He is currently
completing a Doctoral degree in Composition and Musicology, and is editor of the South
African Music Teacher magazine. His compositions have been awarded numerous South
African prizes, as well as a first prize in the international contest Flores Iuventutis in
1994/5.
Taljaard’s works have been performed in South Africa and Europe. He is currently
working on a number of commissions for European ensembles, and for South African
musicians. Taljaard has undertaken various study tours to Europe, and visited a number
of colleges and conservatoires in England, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland and
Bulgaria. In 1996 he attended the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in
Darmstadt, studying with Stockhausen, Rihm, Lombardi, Pagh-paan, Hosokawa, Klaus
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