Staff Profile

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Of Music And Musicology (Honours) Degree with Midlands State University
• Certificate in Professional training programme for Tertiary Education with Midlands State university. Faculty of Education.
• FTCL in Composition (Trinity College of London)
• Post-Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education with Midlands State University.

Research Interest:

• Musicology with a thrust in Music Composition (Theory) and performance of African Indigenous research-based compositions;
• Classical music focussing on Orchestration, Conducting and clinical workshops in choral music performance studies.
• Film Music and sound tracking.

Publications:

Creative Continuum  in Music Composition. New perspective:  Towards an African theoretical Approach. [ A Book which is pending]

Conferences:

2. Ethno-Composition: The significative potential of indigenous music-dance genres as pre-compositional resources.

Paper Presented At 2012 RIE Conference Held At UZ, Harare

Dates: 4-7 September 2012

3. Use of indigenous Music Genres in the Teaching of Composition in Zimbabwe: Towards an Indigenous Music Theory Approach.

Paper presented at 39^th Annual International Conference of SASE

Date: 4-6 October 2012.

Articles pending 

1. “Bartokism” in Mnomiya’s selected compositions: In search for identity.
2. Dialect, idiom and intraopus style in Mookomba Afro-Jazz music: Reflections on syncretic features and compositional techniques.
3. Thematic transformation and controlled pianistic textures in Liszt’s selected compositions.
4. Tonal and rhythmic stability as structural rudiments in Mokoomba Afro-Jazz music: A phenomenological perspective.
5. Tonal and rhythmic stability as structural rudiments in Franz Liszt’s piano composition, Liebestraume Dreams of love: Syntax, form and unity in Romantic music.

Community Engagement

• Choral Music Clinician
• Choral Music Workshop Facilitator
• Composer at National Level