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Andile Khumalo

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Andile Khumalo (born 12 May 1978) is a South African composer and a music lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand. In 2013, he completed his Doctor of Musical Arts at Columbia University under the supervision of George Lewis. There he also studied with Fabien Levy and Tristan Murail. Prior to his DMA, Khumalo studied under Marco Stroppa at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (HMDKS) and with Jürgen Bräuninger at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Khumalo’s compositions are predominantly in a spectral style. Khumalo was born in and grew up in Umlazi, a township located south-west of Durban in the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal. Khumalo’s early music education included training at the Siyakhula community music centre.[1] In 1998 he enrolled for a music degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal where he studied composition with Jürgen Bräuninger, which he completed in 2001.[2] From 2002 till 2007, Khumalo studied composition with Marco Stroppa and music theory with Matthias Herman at HMDKS.[3] He then took up a position as a Faculty Fellow at Columbia University,[4] completing his PhD with a dissertation on Beat Furrer’s FAMA. Khumalo was employed as a lecturer in music theory, composition and orchestration at the University of Witwatersrand in 2013.[6] He has also been active in the Sterkfontein Composers Meeting[7] and a tutor for the South African Society for Research in Music’s new music meeting. In 2014, Khumalo was featured in Carnegie Hall’s Ubuntu Festival as part of a concert featuring a selection of new music composers.[9][10] His music was also featured in the 2013 Festival d’Automne[11] and the Cologne New Music Forum of the same year.[12] Khumalo has been featured at festivals and competitions in South Africa as well. He was the runner-up in the 2006 SAMRO overseas scholarship competition[13] and featured at a number of NewMusicSA’s New Music Indabas,[14] the Sterkfontein Composers Meeting,[7] and the Grahamstown National Arts Festival.

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Khumalo has been featured at festivals and competitions in South Africa as well. He was the runner-up in the 2006 SAMRO overseas scholarship competition and featured at a number of NewMusicSA’s New Music Indabas, the Sterkfontein Composers Meeting, and the Grahamstown National Arts Festival.

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