South African Singing Workshop with Bongani Magatyana

Name: South African Singing Workshop with Bongani Magatyana
Start: 2024-07-27T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-27T17:30:00-04:00
Location: 15 Overbrook Pl, Asheville, NC 28805-2314, United States

Schedule

Sat Jul 27 2024 at 03:00 pm to 05:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

15 Overbrook Pl, Asheville, NC 28805-2314, United States | Asheville, NC

We are delighted to host Bongani Magatyana from Cape Town, South Africa for this one off workshop. Don’t miss an opportunity to learn from him.
We will be learning traditional and contemporary South African choral music – we will learn by ear and will be learning the accompanying movements/dances. All are welcome!
BONGANI MAGATYANA is a music director, composer, and theatrical producer. Born in Cape Town in a township called Old Crossroads; his father was a self-taught choir conductor in the Old Apostolic Church (OAC). Magatyana’s father taught him to read and write tonic solfa music notation at a very young age, and he dreamed of becoming a church choir conductor like his father. Today, he conducts a 120-voice OAC choir as well as a male community choir. His folk-inspired choral compositions—popular pieces for South Africa’s major choral competitions—are performed by choirs across South Africa and internationally.
He currently serves as an instructor—both at home, and abroad—for the organization Village Harmony, and frequently works as a clinician with university choirs in South Africa and across the United States.
When in Cape Town, Magatyana directs the Khayelitsha Children’s Choir, teaches at the Zolani Centre in Nyanga Township, leads an educational musical theatre company, and continues to compose music in a variety of genres, bringing vibrant performances to communities across the world. Bongani just produced a musical theatre production called Izikhalo Zika Nogqawuse (The musical) which was funded by the National Arts Council and created jobs for more than 40 singers and musicians.