UCTSO Concerto Festival 2024
Some of the top performers from the SACM who successfully auditioned to perform at this festival will play alongside the University of Cape Town Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Brandon Phillips.
UCT Symphony Orchestra
UCT Symphony Orchestra performs the premiere of an overture titled “Ukuthwasa” composed by student composer James Geldenhuys. UCT’s Gerhard Joubert performs Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 and the concert ends with Brahms Symphony No. 3.
17th Annual Schock Foundation Prize for Chamber Music
The seventeenth edition of this annual competition for ensemble playing, sponsored by the Schock Foundation. This final round will feature ensembles selected from the chamber music concerts throughout the year.
UCT String Ensemble
For this concert UCT String Ensemble joins forces with the strings of the Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Orchestra to perform Händel, Mozart and South African composer Hans Huyssen.
Ms Sheila Barsel
Sheila Barsel is the political advisor to the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. She has 50 years of experience in:
Ms Busiswa Mtsi
Busiswa Mtsi is a security officer working for Campus Protection Services at the UCT Graduate School of Business at Cape Town’s Waterfront. Ms Mtsi has been working at UCT since November 2012 and has been studying human resources since 2015, gaining a diploma from Damelin College in 2017, a BTech at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in 2020. She is currently working on a BCom honours degree in human resource management at the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
Professor Christopher Vaughan
Kit Vaughan is an emeritus professor at UCT, having previously held the Hyman Goldberg Chair in Biomedical Engineering (1996-2010). During this period, he also served: as head of department (biomedical engineering and human biology) in the Faculty of Health Sciences; as deputy dean for research and postgraduate affairs; and as a member of Council and the Senate Executive Committee. Prior to UCT, Vaughan was professor of orthopaedics and biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia.
Dr Shuaib Manjra
Shuaib Manjra is a passionate South African, human rights activist, and seeker of a better world for all. He consults in sports and occupational medicine physician to a range of non-governmental organisations, state and private-sector institutions. His association with UCT began in 1990 when he worked at the Industrial Health Research Group, based in the Department of Sociology. This unit provided occupational health services to the progressive trade union movement. He currently serves as an honorary senior lecturer at UCT’s School of Public Health.
Ms Kholiwe Makhohliso
Kholiwe Makhohliso made a name for herself as a distinct leader in the ICT sector having led South African operations of global companies, including a Fortune 500 company. From 2018, she has been at the helm of German-headquartered global software company, Software AG, as its vice president and country managing director for South Africa.
Professor Neil Eccles
Neil Eccles is a professor in the Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the University of South Africa. It should come as no surprise that in this role he teaches and does research. In terms of teaching, he uses moral and political philosophy to try and instil a bit of much needed critical thinking into economic and management science students. His module entitled Sustainability and Greed has been running since 2013, and is taken by between 6 000 and 11 000 undergraduate students a semester.