Suite Afrique ( for Viola and Piano ) will be performed by South African violist Valery Andreev on the 27th July during the opening concert 20h00
Zaidel-Rudolph, Jeanne (b. July 9, 1948, Pretoria). South African composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed in Africa, Europe and the USA.
Prof. Zaidel-Rudolph studied piano privately with Adolph Hallis, Philip Levy and Goldie Zaidel as a child and studied with John Lill at the Royal College of Music in London, where she earned four performance degrees with distinction. She later studied composition with György Ligeti in Hamburg in 1974 and with Stefans Grové at the University of Pretoria, where she earned her doctorate in 1979.
Among her many honors is First Prize in the Total Oil SA competition (1986, for Tempus Fugit) and commissions for the Olympic Games (1996, Oratorio for Human Rights) and the doctoral ceremony of Nelson Mandela (1997, He Walked to Freedom). She was also a guest composer at a festival in Ohio (1995), collaborated on the revision of the South African National Anthem, which resulted in the adoption of her English text near the conclusion of the piece (1995) and participated in the show Celebration in Canada and the USA (2000–02).
She has taught as Senior Lecturer at the Wits School of Music since 1975 and is Professor of Composition and Head of Music at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She has lectured on indigenous African music in Europe and the USA.
Prof.Zaidels list of works and discography can be view at the following link of the Living Composers Project
http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/zairudoj.htm
http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/zairudoj.htm
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