Mr. HANNES TALJAARD

• MMus(PUCHE) | HonsBA(FrenchLit)(PUCHE) | Certificate in Marketing
• Tel. (018) 299-1702
• musdjt@puk.ac.za

Hannes Taljaard was born in 1971 in Venda, the northernmost part of South Africa. He very soon developed a keen interest in music and formal music education started in Potchefstroom at the age of seven. His first attempts at composition date from the same period.

Throughout his school years he excelled in musical and academic spheres. Music was always studied extramurally and included studies of the piano, recorder and organ, as well as harmony and counterpoint at a very advanced level. (He passed the Unisa Grade VIII examination in 1988.)

His B.Mus. degree in Music Theory and Composition was completed in 1993 together with an Honours degree in French Literature; both degrees were awarded cum laude. The honours degree in music was awarded cum laude in 1995 and the Masters degree in music (on the teaching of composition and music analysis) was awarded cum laude in 1997. He teaches harmony, counterpoint, analysis, aural training, composition and orchestration at the Potchefstroom University (since 1994), as well as privately. He is currently doing research for a Doctoral degree in Composition and Musicology.

His compositions have been rewarded numerous South African prizes, as well as a first prize in the international contest "Flores Iuventutis" in 1994/5. He recently received the PUK Chancellors' Trust Prize for composition. His compositions have been performed in South Africa and since 1998 in Europe. He is currently working on a number of commissions for European ensembles and South African musicians.

He undertook various study tours to Europe and visited a number of colleges and conservatoires in England, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland and Bulgaria.

Currently his interests involve composition, music theory, music education and musicology as well as the performance of chamber music (piano). He has been a member of the University's symphony orchestra (double bass) since 1998. He read papers at three national musicological congresses, and his proposal was accepted to speak on the reception history of an opera by Wim Henderickx at the congress of the International Musicological Society (Leuven, August 2002).

List of works:

Chamber Music

Les Sarabandes (2009 —2010) Piano Trio

Four Essays for String Quartet (2001 — 2005)

Juggly Jig (2010) for Flute and Piano

Zwikumbu Zwiraru (2010) (Three Calabashes) for two Flutes, Piccolo and Piano

Impromptu (2010) for Cello Solo

Choir Compositions

Thula Sthandwa (2002)

Arrangements of Afrikaans Folk Songs (2003 — present)

Orchestral Compositions

“… or a boy who would turn himself into the wind…” (2003 — 2007) Piano Concerto

Vocal Works

Wiegieliedjies, Boek 1 (1999)

Arie Antiche (2008 — present)

Arrangements of Tsivenda Folk Songs (2003)

Works for Piano Solo

Fünf zärtliche Bagatellen (1993)

Drie Nokturnes (1998) vir Bart se Konsert in Lier

Two Lullabies (2001)

Setudes (2003 — present)

Zwikumbu Zwingana? (2010) How many Calabashes?