Keorapetse Kolwane for the Jazz in Jozi concert series

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Jazz In Jozi in partnership with Chiesa di Pazzo Lupi, supported by the 5th iteration of the ConcertsSA Digital Mobility Fund presents Keorapetse Kolwane

10 December 2022 | Chiesa Di Pazzo Lupi | 19:00

Tshwane University of Technology and University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Alumni, Keorapetse Kolwane, just completed her postgraduate at The University of Witwatersrand and is awaiting graduation. Keorapetse’s passion for the South African music, live performance, music education, music business and the skillsets she has acquired thus far in her academic pursuit and career, have driven her toward finding ways to facilitate social cohesion whilst making use of arts, culture and heritage as a medium. She has immersed herself in musicology and further documenting the developments of the arts in South Africa with the hopes of making her research and documented work accessible to future aspiring artists. Having specialised in music performance, composition, arranging, technology, and music business, she has found herself employed across the country as a music educator/lecturer, sound engineer, arts administrator, performing artist, songwriter, composer and arranger. Her greatest aspiration is to see the various skillsets she has and is currently acquiring through the years, coexist in her profession and being used as a tool to move the South African music industry forward.

Keorapetse plays an active role in the current South African music scene and transitions smoothly between various genres of music, performing arts and administration professions, music production and notation software and has great interest in further exploring all the other aspects of music technology. Keorapetse was selected at the annual Grahamstown National Youth Jazz Festival, amongst the countries top youth jazz musicians to be part of the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band of 2015. Together with this band, she has performed at major national festivals like the Grahamstown National Arts Festival and Johannesburg Joy of Jazz. In the past year(2019) and with the support of Concerts SA and The Old Town School of Folk Music in the USA, Keorapetse tirelessly collaborated with Chicago, USA based saxophonist and music educator, Ernest Dawkings, facilitating a project titled The Englewood Soweto Exchange Project. This project was aimed at bringing together artists from both the United States of America and South Africa to take part in a cultural exchange programme using jazz composition, performance and music education as mediums to address social issues common to societies in both countries. She has performed Internationally throughout Egypt Cairo, New York City, Washington D.C, Louisville, Orlando and Western Kentucky, Norway, and will be heading to Europe to perform at the Amersfoort Jazz Festival in May 2020 as part of her successful participation in winning the SAMRO international scholarship for singers competition.

She is currently enrolled as a post graduate part time scholar at The Tshwane University of Technology doing a PGCE and specializing in arts education and linguistics. Aside from establishing herself as an independent artist and assuming leadership roles with great intent, Keorapetse works well as a sideman and contributor to the development of the arts. She thrives in a team and works gracefully under leadership. She is passionate and precise in her endeavours and always strives to increase her skillset through working with others and learning from them. With the intellectual collaboration of any sector that might employ Keorapetse, she will be able to utilize her industry practice and experience together with her educational accolades and acquired skillsets to contribute positively.