NWU African Music Workshop Series: Keitumetse Joyce Moholoagae

Bio

South African vocalist & workshop leader - Moholoagae is a South African vocalist and educator. She studied classical voice and performance at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has performed across various music genres including opera, classical and South African jazz and has worked with the likes of Darius Brubeck, Sibongile Khumalo, Hugh Masekela and Paco Peña. She performed in the world premiere of the African opera Princess Magogo, in Les Blancs at the National Theatre (UK), The Children's Monologue (directed by Danny Boyle), Othello at the Globe Theatre, at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the BT River of Music 2012, where she was MD for a group of singers from southern Africa. She has performed in venues across South Africa, and from the Royal Festival Hall to the Globe Theatre in London. Moholoagae brings to NWU her substantial experience of using the voice in differing African and diasporic context.