Classic 1027 People of Note on Classic 1027

People of Note on Classic 1027

People of Note with Richard Cock on Classic 1027.
Weekly English South Africa Music · Technology Narrated by Pieter Botha
141 Episodes
120 – 140

People of Note with Richard Cock and William Bird 15 July 2018

William studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where he obtained his BA and Honours degree in Drama and Film. He worked in television after completing his studies. Unable to resist the lure of media monitoring, William started with some part time monitoring for the Media Monitoring Project,…
17 Jul 2018 43 min

People of Note with Richard Cock and David Salleras 1 July 2018

After finishing his studies at the Superior Music Conservatory of Barcelona when onlu 18 years old (with the highest qualifications), he won a Spanish government scholarship to continue his studies in France with Jean-Yves Fourmeau and Nicolas Prost in Paris winning the Gold Medal in their conservatories. Since 2008 David…
2 Jul 2018 44 min

People of Note with Richard Cock and Shirley Apthorp 10 June 2018

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…
13 Jun 2018 1 hr 03 min

People of Note with Richard Cock and Siyabongo Maqungo 27 May 2018

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,…
28 May 2018 57 min

People of Note with Richard Cock and John Fleetwood 20 May 2018

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…
21 May 2018 1 hr 16 min

People of Note with Richard Cock and Karen-Michele Kimmett

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…
7 May 2018 1 hr 06 min

People of Note with Richard Cock and Pieter Dirk Uys

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…
29 Apr 2018 1 hr 17 min

People of Note with Richard Cock and Wouter Kellerman

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…
22 Apr 2018 56 min
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