People of Note with Richard Cock on Classic 1027.

People of Note with Richard Cock on Classic 1027.

Shirley Apthorp, born in 1969 in Cape Town, moved with her family to Australia as a child. She studied music theory and violin at the University of Tasmania, and began to work as a music critic for the regional and national press at the age of 20.

In 1994 she received a Churchill Fellowship and an
 Australia Council Grant to study music journalism in
 Europe. She has lived in Berlin since 1996, writing about
 music fort he Financial Times (UK), Bloomberg (USA),
 The Australian, and for music magazines in the UK, the USA, Norway, Brazil, Japan, Australia, Austria and Germany. In 2010 she launched Umculo│Cape Festival , an organization with the aim of supporting social change through music in South Africa. She continues to work as a music journalist.

Siyabonga Maqungo – a young South African tenor (28) all the way from a township of Katlehong in Johannesburg Gauteng province. Siyabonga has been singing all of his life since at a very young age. In Season 2015/16 he started his first engagement as an ensemble member in Staatstheater Meiningen, where he sung the role of Alfred in “Die Fledermaus”; Electrica in Thomas Édes popular opera “Powder her face”; Arturo in “Lucia di Lammermor”; Italian singer in Richard Strauss’ last opera “Capriccio” and Der Sänger in “Der Rosenkavalier”.

Siyabonga started his season 2016/17 with Rossini’s well known comic opera - “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” where he is singing the role of Count Almaviva. He then later sang the role of David in Richard Wagner’s Opera “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”. During summer 2017 he made his debut at the Opera Burg Gars Festival in Austria as Tamino in Mozart’s "Die Zauberflöte". Siyabonga debuted as Ferrando in "Cosi fan tutte" in season 2017/18 in Meiningen Staatstheater as he continues his roles of Mozart operas.

John Fleetwood is the director of Photo: a photography platform for curatorial and educational projects that relate to the African continent. He is the convener for democraSEE, an award and mentorship programme for Southern African photographers. Fleetwood was the Head of the Market Photo Workshop between 2002 and 2015. He works closely with the Centres of Learning for Photography in Africa and other institutions of learning and mentorship. He participated in numerous national and international exhibitions.

Natasha Moodley is Franchise Relations Manager at Kumon Education

Karen-Michele Kimmett is a graduate of the University of Toronto, the Royal Conservatory of Music, and Ithaca College (Master of Music). She has taught at Seneca College, the Royal Conservatory of Music and at the music school ITE in Ithaca, NY. In 1985 she joined the faculty of the Institut Suzuki in Lyon, France, and from 1990-2001 co-founded and directed the Institut Musical Suzuki Paris in Paris, France. In 1986, Ms. Kimmett studied with Dr. Suzuki in Matsumoto, Japan. A teacher trainer for both the SAA and the ESA, Ms Kimmett has taught workshops in numerous European countries well as in Morocco, Canada, the United States, St. Barthélemey and South Africa where she has co-directed a long term teacher training program for the last sixteen years.

Pieter-Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945 and has been in the theatre since the mid-1960s. Closely associated with both the Space Theatre in Cape Town and Johannesburg's Market Theatre during the 1970s and 1980s, he has written and performed 20 plays and over 30 revues and one-man shows throughout South Africa and abroad.

Globe-trotting flutist and composer Wouter Kellerman received a 2015 Grammy® Award at the 57th Annual Grammy® Awards for his album Winds of Samsara, a collaboration with Indian composer and producer Ricky Kej. Winds Of Samsara reached #1 on the US Billboard New Age Albums Chart and also peaked at #1 on the Zone Music Reporter Top 100 International Radio Airplay Chart in the month of July 2014, winning both the ZMR ‘Album of the Year’ and ‘Best World Album’ awards. Kellerman’s newest album LOVE LANGUAGE was released in August 2015 and debuted at nr 1 on the World Music Billboard charts in its first week

This week on People of Note, Richard Cock chats to Jonathan Crossley, Guitarist, Composer and Cyber Protagonizer.