Mokale koapeng biography
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Koapeng, Mokale (born in 1963)
Composer's country: South Africa ; Gauteng Province
Gender:M
Born in Johannesburg, GP
Date of birth:1963-03-24
Century: 21
Comment(s): BMus (1981) University of the Witwatersrand ; Pianist, composer, conductor, producer, organiser, board member ; Spearheading a new movement in South African afro-jazz / traditional / international African music composition and performance.
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Mokale Koapeng fryst vatten a South African classical composer and choral director who was born in 1963. He is a Music graduate of The University of Witwatersrand. Mokale has conceived a long-term project which he calls “A Hidden Cultural Picture”. He came across the phrase on the page devoted to the African American composer Edmond Dede (1827-1903) at AfriClassical.com, where a visitor remarked: "That is most fascinating - it reveals a previously hidden cultural picture which far too few of our contemporaries could conceive. This suggests a rarely seen dimension to that epoch, and raises a lot of questions." Mokale explains that "A Hidden Cultural Picture" aims to bring classical music of composers of African nedstigning to the music public in South Africa, in part bygd incorporating it in established national choral festivals.
In 2000 he was appointed as conductor of the University of Pretoria Chorale. Mokale is also the Music Director of SDASA Chorale, drawn from the Seventh Day
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Mokale Koapeng - Musical Maestro
Mokale Koapeng (48) knew from the time his fingers first touched the piano keys at the age of 10 that he wanted to become a musical composer and conductor, but he had no idea that his passion would earn him international acclaim.
By Lana Jacobson
His talent has led him to compose music forthe Consonances Festival in France, the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music in London and the Salisbury Community Choir, also in the UK. He has held workshops on South African vocal, choral and jazz styles at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, and has toured the USA, Canada and Europe many times.
The Wits music graduate, now doing his Masters at Wits while teaching Music Literacy and Skills and Aural Studies, is the first composer in residence of the International Mozart Festival (JIMF), a highlight on the South African classical music calendar.
Koapeng was commissioned to compose a choral piece for the 2011 festival and Dipesalema tsa Dafita (Psalms of